2007 Diary - week 11
End of another busy and varied week. That is one of the great things about this job. Each day brings new (and sometimes, unfortunately, old) challenges.
One of the downsides is meetings. (remember the old cliché - was it John Cleese who coined the phrase 'meetings, bl**dy meetings') and I get a lot of those, some interesting and some like watching paint dry but all part of the job. This week was no exception with a number of management meetings; individual meets with people and some project set up/ reviews. Another downside is cold calls and trying to screen these is very difficult but getting caught with some persistent salesman and not being rude is a challenge at times.
Managed a day out and went to join some of my peers at a Gartner event which gave the opportunity to realise we are not as bad as sometimes I think we are. In fact listening to others I think we are going in the right direction and are a nice way down that path.
Worked on some directional stuff around business intelligence and finished the week with a major planning session on the rebuild of a major system that will improve our efficiencies and put us in a strong market position (he says positively!)
Thank goodness for weekends
3 comments:
You make some good points here. I am particularly biased towards Governance.
I am often frustrated at how challenged IT personnel are to do more than pay lipservice, there are real benefits to the organisation. I had recent involvement as below. It was a real eye opener
The Information Technology Process Institute (ITPI) and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers released studies into IT controls performance and IT governance.
CIO Magazine interviewed Dwayne Melancon, ITPI research fellow, and Steve Woolley, partner of the Pricewaterhouse Coopers advisory and technology practice, about the results and discussed how a CIO can turn IT controls into business productivity.
The podcast is here.
http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;593558102
Peter:
Regarding your comment "One of the downsides is meetings": do you think that adoption of tools like blogs within an organization might help to reduce the need for so many meetings by allowing some collaboration and communication activities to be accomplished without having to meet face-to-face?
I do actually think that Blogs could well reduce meetings and be a useful tool within an organisation. I thought Wiki's may have also been useful but have struggled with these because of their openess. But blogs I think could be very usefull and I am certainly going to try these initially within IT.
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