Posts Tagged Management
This is how you Hype-Jack! The Tactics of a Smart Marketer
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Business, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing on November 19, 2012
Marketers are looking to create hype all the time. But, Smart Marketers are looking for the hype to hi-jack on. They just Hype-jack! The more official term for this phenomenon is “News-jacking”, but I somehow prefer “Hype-Jacking” for the intent, for the relevance today, and for the simple phonetics! As PBS demonstrated during the Presidential debate and Blendtec successfully did it amidst the Apple v/s Samsung battle; an effective hype-jacking may not be planned in advance, but can be achieved with a constant tab on the market, a spark of brilliance, and a rapid-fire action. […]
The new role of IT – from Cost Center to Business Platform Provider
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Architecture, BPM, Business, Cloud Computing, Innovation, Management, Platform-as-a-Service, Technology on April 7, 2011
IT can, driven by APaaS, become a Business Platform Provider and facilitate Business Value, and move beyond being Cost Center. While IT may, for some time to come, control the buying and maintenance of such platforms, the key to their success lies in understanding that they need to focus on the role of platform Engineering and Governance, and facilitate the business value driven applications development.
Incentive! What Incentive?
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Human Behavior, Leadership, Management on March 19, 2011
There are many employees (if you want to call them that) that love their job so much that they just don’t care what the incentive is. They just want to excel at what they do. They just love the work they do. And that’s the kind of employee one should ever want in their team for the right job. No incentive ever helps if the person you employed doesn’t love doing “what you expect them to do”.
Vendor Lock-In & Proprietary Technology: Ask the Right Questions!
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Architecture, Business, Design, Management, Technology on August 28, 2010
Vendor Lock-in. Proprietary Technology. Switching Costs. These phrases are thrown out there more often than they need to be, without real thought to what the concerns actually are. Asking the right questions is important. If you want some real functionality and technological strength for a price, prioritize that and do not confuse a proprietary & strong enclosed technology with a closed & rigid architecture. Everything, that is standard today, was once proprietary in our minds until it eventually became common, universal or functionally indispensable.
When Processes Are Broken, Fault Lies Elsewhere
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in BPM, Business, Leadership, Management, Technology on June 27, 2010
When a business process culminates in a transaction that has the organization as the beneficiary, they will find a way or the other to keep track of it, and not let the ball drop. But, not so much otherwise. When you see a broken process, problem lies mostly with focus and priorities; not with their ability (technological or managerial) to manage processes.
Systems Today, Culture Tomorrow. Don’t Tweak!
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Business, Human Behavior, Leadership, Management on June 15, 2010
Not all organizations may realize that some of the tweaks in policies and systems actually end up as the key determinant of the longer term direction that “organizational culture” takes. When tweaking systems and policies for shorter term goals, do not lose sight of the longer term effects on culture and mindset of people working in the organization. Systems and Policies of today are the organizational culture of tomorrow!
SLAs Drive Mediocre Services, Not Customer Delight!
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in BPM, Business, Leadership, Management, Technology on May 25, 2010
SLAs are great way to manage contractual obligations. One would hope that they would bring the much needed quality of service in business, but that’s unfortunately not the case. They are just not geared for “customer happiness”, They are designed, and used in a way, to keep the management from frowning! As far as I know, SLAs (or with a benefit of doubt, badly designed ones) are the root cause of mediocre services.
Don Your Green and Blue Hats, BPM-the-Social-Way is much more!
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Architecture, BPM, Business, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Technology on May 20, 2010
Any-whichever way we look at it, technologically or as a way to make businesses better, BPM-the-social-way is much more than what “Social BPM” seems right now… time to don the Green and Blue Hats!
Case v/s Process – Not about Architecture & Tools, It’s Culture
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Architecture, BPM, Business, Design, Leadership, Management, Technology on May 13, 2010
There are tools that have capability to do Process Management in structured manner, and there are tools with capability to perform dynamic case management. What you need depends on how you want to treat the situations and incidents. You want Case Management culture or Process Management culture – that’s the key. Everything could be treated like a case, and everything could follow a process. What do you want?
Quicklectic: Popular Posts and Redux Update
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Architecture, BPM, Business, Design, Management, Technology on May 13, 2010
[tweetmeme source=”ashish_bhagwat” only_single=false] A quick update on what’s up at Eclectic Zone… Last week, I have started blogging at Redux Online as guest blogger. I feel excited about being able to share my thoughts through more channels. I already have few posts there, check them out! There’s one on BPM-SOA confusion titled “And We Thought […]
Ashish Bhagwat
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A graduate in Engineering and Business Management with interests in Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Technology, BPM and Cloud Computing.
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