Category Archives: leadership & management

Five Essential Pillars of Technology Strategy

Technology is a key resource for businesses. As technology managers, our job is to direct technology activities to serve the business and its customers. This requires coordination and integration of technology activities with all functional areas of the firm. “The … Continue reading

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Integrated strategy development: Unsurpassable advantage

Forgive me, as it has been a long time since I blogged… But, I have been lured to the exotic world of iPhone and Mac programming, and learning kept me challenged, focused and engaged, not to mention, distracted from writing… … Continue reading

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Injecting Empathy Into Your Engineering Team

“Don’t ship the org chart.” —Steve Sinofsky It is not uncommon for engineering focused teams to release products that are neither usable nor user friendly. It happens, and I have been there as the program manager… The important thing is … Continue reading

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Your 2011 Technology Development Agenda

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time! 1 year, 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, …. When you break it down, a lot can get done in a year. Especially when you learn how … Continue reading

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More on customer touch points

I have been catching up with my reading, and wanted to share few posts relating to Create value at every touch point article I wrote a while back. Happy readings! First, definition of touchpoints by Albert Tan from frog design … Continue reading

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