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A well known saying in management theory states that “You cannot manage what you do not measure”. I have always believed that, in technology management, this is a very naive focus. “You cannot manage what you don’t understand”, sounds much more like a winning plan. This does not mean that you have to be the lead techie in your company (although more technical knowledge always helps), it means that you have to have some understanding of what you do.
Now, what do you do? In this blog I focus on six areas:
(1) Business Strategy - How to best make money from what your company does
(2) Innovation - How to keep being better than the competition
(3) Managing Techies - Getting the most from your team
(4) Cool Technology - Having an awareness of game changing technologies
(5) Consumer behaviour - Getting a better understanding of the people you sell to
(6) Interesting times - Events and trends shaping our world
A good understanding of the above goes some way to improving the quality of a technology manager’s decisions. The topics are not meant to be exhaustive and is rather presented as “thought for the day” tidbits to keep your grey matter engaged. Nobody has time to spend hours on a website, so I have limited each post so that it should not take more than 15 minutes of your time.
Feel free to comment on any of the posts. They were chosen to be thought provoking!
A well known saying in management theory states that “You cannot manage what you do not measure”. I have always believed that, in technology management, this is a very naive focus. “You cannot manage what you don’t understand”, sounds much more like a winning plan. This does not mean that you have to be the lead techie in your company (although more technical knowledge always helps), it means that you have to have some understanding of what you do.
Now, what do you do? In this blog I focus on six areas:
(1) Business Strategy - How to best make money from what your company does
(2) Innovation - How to keep being better than the competition
(3) Managing Techies - Getting the most from your team
(4) Cool Technology - Having an awareness of game changing technologies
(5) Consumer behaviour - Getting a better understanding of the people you sell to
(6) Interesting times - Events and trends shaping our world
A good understanding of the above goes some way to improving the quality of a technology manager’s decisions. The topics are not meant to be exhaustive and is rather presented as “thought for the day” tidbits to keep your grey matter engaged. Nobody has time to spend hours on a website, so I have limited each post so that it should not take more than 15 minutes of your time.
Feel free to comment on any of the posts. They were chosen to be thought provoking!
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