Archive for May, 2008

The Black Box of the Organization…

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Org Design is such a mystical business skill. We can put as much science and analytics behind it, but so much that comes down to the ‘black magic’ of corporate culture, which, as i see it, is essentially a ’speed of the leader, speed of the team’ issue.

Mootee has a great post about the social nature of organizations and how a social reality is constructed through the organizations we create/live in. http://tinyurl.com/6yzyq4.

I love noodling about how organizations can be more effectively deisgned. We’re dealing with lots of these issues in end user adoption of SharePoint portals. We’ve designed a whole offering to account for the problems we’ve seen surface. I’ll link to it once we get our service on the web site.

Four C’s of Effective Chart Alerts…

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Zach Gemignani has a great list of the four C’s for effective alerts — context, cogency, communication, controlhttp://tinyurl.com/5mz3j5.
So many charts and alerts are crap. this is a great list.

 

Great SharePoint Plug-In List

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Check out Michael Greth’s great list: http://tinyurl.com/6do9jh.

Texas Tops List of Most Fortune 500 HQs…

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Some fun data…

 

FORTUNE 500 LIST
Top Ten Cities (within city limits)
New York 43
Houston 25
Dallas 12
Chicago 12
Atlanta 9
St. Louis 8
Charlotte 7
Columbus, OH 7
Minneapolis 7
Philadelphia 7

In 2007 New York vs. Houston
New York 45
Houston 22
Note: A net comparative gain of +5

Number of Fortune 500 Companies in Metro Area in Texas
Houston 26
Dallas/FW 23
San Antonio 5
Austin 2

Top Ten States for Fortune 500 Companies
Texas 58
New York 55
California 52
Illinois 33
Ohio 28
Pennsylvania 25
New Jersey 23
Michigan 22
Minnesota 19
Virginia 19

Andrew McAfee Asks Great Questions…

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

This blog post is old: http://tinyurl.com/25e5fs. But, given this week’s Business Week article on social media (http://tinyurl.com/25e5fs), I think it’s even more relevant as a framework for firms to think about how they incorporate all this social media and collaborative ’stuff’ into a profitable venture.

Gantt Charts in Excel…

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

For those of us exhausted at the overhead involved in creating project plans in MS Project, here’s a way to manage data in Excel and get snappy visualization of that data. http://tinyurl.com/469zfk.