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Creating Clarity through Simple Prioritized Principles

Most organizations spend time on value statements, ending up with words such as trust, integrity, honesty, fairness, and so on. The problem is, while these are simple, they are not clear. People don’t automatically associate these words with their daily actions, nor will these words help when they need to make a quick decision. In [...]

Business-IT Alignment: The CIO and CFO Speak

Nowhere is clarity more needed than in the way IT relates to the business/finance areas and vice-versa. In many ways, CFOs are from Mars and CIOs are from Venus, as a PriceWaterhouseCoopers study suggests. According to the study:

CFOs believe IT lacks understanding about business strategy
IT managers say CFOs don’t communicate goals effectively

The other day I attended a [...]

Let’s Be Clear: The importance of simplicity, clarity, and focus

Excessive or unnecessary complexity is one of the biggest barriers to organizational success. This is true both internally and externally.

For one,  processes and forms aren’t as simple as they could be, and tools often become barriers instead of enablers.

Secondly, the organization’s vision and strategy are typically unclear, if they exist at all, so efforts get diluted by [...]