Its time to REO
Saurav Khandelwal Dec 9th 2012 As the corporates grow into multi-billion dollar businesses with operations across the globe, they constantly face increasing pressure to be efficient. This pressure is...
View ArticleImpact/Criticality Matrix
Saurav Khandelwal Dec 11th, 2012 We have all heard that picture speaks a thousand words but when it comes to project/program reports we still don’t strongly believe in this saying. Steering committee...
View ArticleProject Budgeting and Estimation
Project/program manager constantly struggle with budgeting and estimating project schedule and cost. Below are some good estimation characteristics documented by United States General Accounting office...
View ArticleFuture of mobile technology
By Saurav Khandelwal Over the last decade we have seen a major shift in Mobile technology. Mobile phones used to be these clunky devices with big push buttons but now they have finger operated...
View ArticleSustainable Design Triangle
IT and business analyst are put in the difficult shoes of presenting IT solutions in terms of project management metrics. Scope, time and resources are of great importance to project sponsor but not to...
View ArticleVal IT – Framework to measure and monitor IT value
C suite constantly struggle with justifying value of initiatives undertaken. This is clearly the case for Human resources, Marketing and Information technology where the value extraction is not...
View ArticleSustainable Design Triangle v2
IT and business analyst are put in the difficult shoes of presenting IT solutions in terms of project management metrics. Scope, time and resources are of great importance to project sponsor but not to...
View ArticleWhat’s your IT?
An organizations behavior towards IT can be classified as IT Focused, IT partnered and IT Enabled. No one way is better than the other and every organization should evaluate the structure that fits...
View ArticleTotal compensation to remuneration to reward – Maslow’s hierarchy of need
Nothing motivates employees more than money, that’s what conventional wisdom has taught us. This is not true anymore and as Maslow’s hierarchy of need suggests, safety (generally provided by money) is...
View ArticleUpgrade or not to upgrade: That is the question (Customer approach to...
PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 is here and sure enough it brings quite a bit of excitement to the user community. Though this excitement will start to normalize in a few years as PeopleSoft will get onto a quick...
View ArticleUpgrade or not to upgrade: That is the question (Customer approach to...
PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 is here and sure enough it brings quite a bit of excitement to the user community. Though this excitement will start to normalize in a few years as PeopleSoft will get onto a quick...
View ArticleAndroid up 13%, iOS down 7%, BlackBerry down 81% ... and Windows Phone up a...
Reblogged from VentureBeat: The mobile operating system market share numbers are in for Kantar Worldpanel's last quarter, and the numbers are shocking. Not the Android and iOS numbers: Steady but...
View ArticlePerformace Management Framework
Introduction Gone are the days when HR department was considered a task oriented function responsible for getting all the paperwork in place and making sure that the employees are paid on time. In...
View ArticleHR marketers – Looking through Frameworks
HR has always been an important function to any business. It’s the first practice to enter and last one to leave. Many publications have been printed on effectiveness and best practices in HR. I...
View ArticleHow to align employees with company objectives. Use 12-4-1 rule
Managers are regularly challenged with underperforming employees. They consider these employees to be unmotivated who are not spending the appropriate amount of time and energy. In most of the cases...
View ArticleWhat is your management style?
I was recently asked “What is your management style?”. I stumbled all the way to provide an answer that truly reflected me. I read about all kind of styles from being authoritative to being delegating....
View ArticleSimplify Project Management
Software project management can be a real pain for an ERP implementation. If you have previously worked in a open system development environment then planning for ERP implementations can get really...
View ArticleHuman Capital Performance Quotient
Various studies have been conducted in recent past depicting how critical talent management has become for organizations. Last three clients that I worked at had talent management as the key strategic...
View ArticleDeloitte article –“learning about learning”
I liked the story based approach of explaining the benefits of informal but controlled learning. Must read for anyone in training department or implementing training IT....
View ArticleIntegrated Talent Management – Driving business strategy – Part 1
Tim is currently the product director for AmazingPhones, a company making high end smart phones. He just walked out of the quarterly strategy review meeting where he got a shocking news. AmazingPhones...
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