What TOP Management Skills Do We All Need?

How To: Using Google Sites as a Project Portal

Systems Savvy: Do You Have It?

Challenge as Trigger for TOP Management
So you want to learn how to weave technology, organizations, and people together into a powerful organization… Then set yourself to a challenge. Suzanne Kirkpatrick (Microsoft) says her epiphany regarding the need to work with all three TOP dimensions at once came during Strong Angel III, an international disaster-response demonstration attended by over 800 practitioners from more than 200 organizations across the public and private sectors, government, NGOs, and academe.

Collocation in Distributed Development
No, collocation in distributed development is not an oxymoron — and I have decades of experience behind my statement. SDForum and SAP hosted a panel for SAP’s global managing directors of their distributed development groups. (Distributed development is how enterprise software (and much other software) gets built.) The decades of experience were provided by Richard Baird (IBM), Cherie Gardiner (Microsoft), Suzanne Kirkpatrick (Microsoft), George Mat

Transparency: The New How & E2.0 Expo
Transparency is the concept of the quarter. Transparency has always been an important management topic (how much, with whom, about what). But I think we’re entering an era where transparency may have a chance of going mainstream. Three big triggers for me: Comments by Eugene Lee suggesting that he’s seeing greater transparency in a variety of firms Nilofer Merchant’s new book The New How: Creating Business Solutions through Collaborative Strategy Series of comments at the Enterprise 2.0 conference this week — Social media creates transpa

Eugene Lee: Getting to Know You 2.0
Many management books (for example, The First 90 Days, p. 45) suggest that you have structured interviews with your direct reports when you first join a new organization. Eugene Lee followed this advice when he become CEO 2.0 (that’s how Ross Mayfield, one of Socialtext’s founders, advertised the job on LinkedIn) for the collaboration/Enterprise 2.0 platform provider Socialtext. As suggested, he wrote down a set of questions like: how long have you been here, what are you most

Pressure for TOP Management is Increasing: Organizational Examples from Jonathan Zittrain’s Talk â
Organizations are global, partnered with other organizations, and more and more run via virtual teams with limited physical interaction… and those are the recognizable organizations. There are other organizations that remain on the fringe in that their work is done by freelancers so indirectly connected to the organization that it’s hard describe them in organizational terms. Wired’s recent article (by Daniel Roth), The Answer Factory describes one organization where clear decisions have been made to freelance some work, and turn other work over to compute