Account your blessings, or not.

Accountants of the certifying kind are still searching for their purpose. In life but moreover, in business reality. Which isn’t too strange. They exist only for a couple of centuries, so at the speed of thinking they do, now is about the right time to do a second round of thought about their role. First, … Continue reading “Account your blessings, or not.”

Wired / Tired / Expired, April 2014 edition

[A night at the opera, Valencia style not Marx brothers] So, here’s the April edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews: WIRED TIRED EXPIRED Ensemble modeling Descriptive – Diagnostic – Predictive – Prescriptive Big Data! Sort-of scenario modelling (two l’s is the right way). Like the what-ifs in Lotus 1-2-3 of … Continue reading “Wired / Tired / Expired, April 2014 edition”

Fortune on bureaucracy: It must die.

Simply putting it here for you, snapped from Fortune (no less). Don’t say I didn’t warn you. The organizations that survive in the coming decades will be those that are capable of change as fast as change itself. Today, few organizations seem to be able to out-run change for more than a few years at … Continue reading “Fortune on bureaucracy: It must die.”

Ni Dieu ni maître …?

On the non-existence of ‘governance’. Suddenly, I realised the full truth of Mitzberg’s dismissal of ‘governance’, since the traditional management would fit the bill perfectly but it has devolved to nothing more than a numb sort of administrative-clerk role (if you’ve read it and don’t understand, re-read it until you do). Because, ‘governance’ isn’t anything. … Continue reading “Ni Dieu ni maître …?”

Top-down fantasies

And so, the emperor was shown to wear no clothes… One couldn’t even blame PCI too much; their standards (meaning: as in uniform things, not the flags one can rally behind) actually do include pointers to deeper (and common-sense) actual infosec control implementation. But not throughout… … nor systematically. As written before, and in many … Continue reading “Top-down fantasies”

Two books, by Quote

[Old? But somehow, still functionally Good, it seems, it looks; Lille] Yet another ‘Book By Quote’ then (An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the … Continue reading “Two books, by Quote”

Books by Quote: Collaboration

[Monopolised, lost all] Yet another ‘Book By Quote’ then (An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself..!) So, this time: Morten T. Hansen, … Continue reading “Books by Quote: Collaboration”

Frameworks, the inventions for …

[Sturdy volume, i.e., Rotjeknor] … for hanging. Most unfortunately, after the demise of SOx et al. (as in this and many other places) there still hasn’t been a decline in interest for ICT management frameworks. Which is bad, because The Odies of this ICT management world, that is, both the ‘managers’ themselves and all the … Continue reading “Frameworks, the inventions for …”

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