Sigurd Rinde

The Information Age Fallacy

Written by: Sigurd Rinde

Humanity has developed by leap and bounds - when we learned to fish the new ample source of protein increased the human chance of survival and forwarded our development, we became smarter and stronger over time.

Sigurd Rinde, information

February 22, 2012

Let the Managers Go

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Fire the managers and purge the language of the term "management". Long live leaders and let everybody manage themselves.

Sigurd Rinde, management, organisational behaviour

October 26, 2011

Say Goodbye to the Organisational Hierarchies Please

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It all started by John Tropea's post, then the discussion moved onto Google+.

My first comment was "I'm still puzzled why all still accepts "organisational hierarchies" as a given... after all they're nothing but frameworks for work processes, of the push kind mostly, based on technology like quills, whips and shoe leather."

Sigurd Rinde, organisational behaviour, organisational change, hierarchy

September 28, 2011

Gamification, Dashboards, Search and Enterprise Failure

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Ooh, I love a good disagreement, and when my friend JP Rangaswami who's views I respect highly, writes a post that I heartily disagrees with I'm tickled pink!

Sigurd Rinde, gamification, dashboards, workflow, processes, framework

September 7, 2011

Evidence vs. Belief and Enterprise Software

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Just recently "evidence vs belief based management" has been raised again, and that's good, it should be in the forefront at all times if you ask me.

Sigurd Rinde, enterprise software

August 2, 2011

Strategic Software vs Non-strategic Software

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I can just as well be upfront about it and invite ridicule at once: There is no business / enterprise software that is first and foremost built to enable strategies, and thus could be termed "strategic".

Let's look at some characteristics that could help to discern the difference between non-strategic business software and potentially strategic business software:

Sigurd Rinde, software, management

April 27, 2011

Software and the Complexity Excuse

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I am a bit fed up with the (mis)use of the term 'complex' as an excuse for not doing the right thing.

Sigurd Rinde, enterprise software, complexity

March 3, 2011

On Productivity

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"Productive effort, measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input"

And I bet you that the next word that is popping up in your head now is efficiency: "Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense"

Sigurd Rinde, productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, workplace, organisational behaviour

February 9, 2011

Social Business and the Command & Control Excuse

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A few days ago I had the usual pleasure of reading one of Euan's posts, where there was one paragraph that triggered something in my mind:

"On the same day I get an email from a senior official in a government job saying "I'm beginning to think that the inherently democratic nature of social media tools is the very reason why they are being restricted or marginalised in some organisations.