Management Excellence

Front line management plays a key role in the success of an organization. It can be competitive differentiator when companies are able to harness their management talent for their greater good. Consider the following on the importance of front line management:

Why Agile

Product organizations are going through significant transformation. Business/commercial expectations of the Product organizations are…

Yahoo mail gets better

Yahoo just launched beta program of its Yahoo! mail. User experience is just slick and getting pretty close to windows based clients. It allows drag and drop, selecting, highlighting multiple emails, various sorting of mails, preview pane, popular keyboard shortcuts, etc. Client layout is…

Innovation stumbling block

Innovation is hard. It is usually hard in an established organization. Why?

Top 3 reasons, in my mind, that hurt innovation in an established organization:

Wanna play? Can you commit?

“It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn” — Euripides

We all have personally experienced, heard or seen examples where an individual or team accomplish goals that otherwise was seen hard to accomplish. It is the kind of stories that surprise…

Achieving elusive personal goal

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.

I have been trying to reduce my weight for several years now without much success. This has been one of the most difficult personal goal for me to accomplish during the last several years. Like…

Service mindset

Thought it will be worthwhile revisiting it based on several discussions earlier this week.

Cloud/SaaS focus is more about the second ‘S’ in SaaS that stand for ‘Service’ over first ‘S’ — Software. It is the ‘Service’ aspect that differentiate SaaS with traditional Software…