I first wrote about Centers of Excellence about 5 years ago and it remains one of the most popular topics here. This post summarizes and updates thoughts on Centers of Excellence (CoE) as a way to build a capability to…
Good to find out this morning that most organizations have already thought about and reached a conclusion similar to mine that process improvement is an operations responsibility. According to Forrester, only about 22% have process improvement report to IT:
Interesting thoughts from Ann All of IT Business Edge on a topic I’ve been passionate about before: Is the CIO the Right Person to Champion Process Improvement? I support any movement toward process stewardship and appreciate Ann taking on this…
With Gartner kicking off its Business Process Management Summit yesterday in Vegas, I thought this article on their predictions for BPM in 2010 and beyond would be appropriate. To summarize, five of the key predictions for BPM are: By 2012,…
It is time for lean six sigma to grow beyond its focus on process improvement and deliver the reality of an agile enterprise. Capping a series of articles, I explore the organizational need for a Process Center of Excellence, how it would work and the agile results it would deliver.
Continuing a series of posts addressing some of the lessons and take aways from recent experience in establishing Centers of Excellence. I believe different enterprises are at different levels of sophistication in their use of centers of excellence (CoEs) and…
Continuing a series of posts addressing some of the lessons and take aways from recent experience in establishing Centers of Excellence. I’ve never really liked the term. Sounds so haughty. I prefer ‘Competency or Capability Center’ or pick any another…
I’ve been focused on setting up centers of excellence recently. I will be sharing a series of posts addressing some of the lessons and take aways from that experience in a few upcoming Centers of Excellence posts. The first question…
Megan Sumrell has 10 nice tips up on working with remote teams. I like that these tips include a softer side to the remote challenge. To them, I add a few fundamentals: Keep an open IM channel. One to one…
What should an agile organization look like?