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Vulgarity warning. Its the silly season, I am winding down and being more low-brow than usual with this post
There is this wonderful way to look at the world, through a lens of something called “Complex adaptive systems”. Unfortunately with a name like...
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Three weeks ago my plasma TV broke, freeing the family from the magic spell of hi-def television. My family took the loss in different ways. My four year old was devastated at the lack of Nintendo Wii, and constantly whined about being bored. My ten year...
Filed under: Strategy, Uncategorized, Best Practices, social fragmentation, organisational culture, knowledge management, Process Improvement, IBIS, Cognexus, Seven Sigma, Dialogue mapping, Issue Mapping, Debategraph, shared understanding, Business Analysis
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Hi there and welcome to part 3 of my series on the practice of Dialogue Mapping in the real-world. To recap, in part 1, I provided a brief overview of Dialogue Mapping and in part 2, I described a common real world usage scenario that we perform fairly...
Filed under: Collaboration, Strategy, Governance, Books, Best Practices, social fragmentation, organisational culture, knowledge management, Process Improvement, IBIS, Jeff Conklin, Cognexus, Seven Sigma, Dialogue mapping, Issue Mapping, user engagement, shared understanding
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I attended and spoke at the Perth Business Analyst World Conference this week and really enjoyed it. This was a bit of a departure from the SharePoint events that I normally frequent, and I really didn’t know what to expect. Certainly, not having to...
Filed under: Project Management, Collaboration, Strategy, Wicked Problems, Conference, workshop, Process Improvement, IBIS, Dialogue mapping, Issue Mapping, Speaking presentation, user engagement, shared understanding, Business Analysis
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Hi there.
Welcome to part 2 of a series of articles on the craft of Dialogue Mapping – something that forms a significant chunk of my SharePoint and non SharePoint work. In the “One best practice” series of articles, I explained IBIS. In part 1 of this...
Filed under: planning, Collaboration, Strategy, Governance, social fragmentation, organisational culture, knowledge management, Process Improvement, IBIS, Cognexus, Dialogue mapping, Issue Mapping, user engagement, shared understanding
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Hi all
Just a quick note to let you know that I will be speaking at the Perth leg of the BusinessAnalystWorld conference this week. My topic is called “IBIS: The one best practice for managing wicked problems" and I will be talking about the characteristics...
Filed under: Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint, Conference, knowledge management, workshop, Process Improvement, IBIS, Seven Sigma, Dialogue mapping, Issue Mapping, Speaking presentation, user engagement, shared understanding
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Hiya
For those who do not regularly read CleverworkArounds, I have a bit of a split career-personality where half my working life is spent as a SharePoint practitioner and the other half as a sort of facilitator, based around the craft of dialogue mapping...
Filed under: Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint, knowledge management, Process Improvement, IBIS, Jeff Conklin, Cognexus, Dialogue mapping, Issue Mapping, shared understanding
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I’m very tempted to start this post like a dodgy wealth-guru infomercial. You know the ones – with lots of imagery of people living the dream of financial freedom. I am thinking a montage of a resort, a large boat anchored in a topical bay, carving up...
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Hi again and welcome to the sixth and final post in this series aimed at enlightening readers to the oft-overlooked importance of shared understanding of a problem. For those of you that have come across this article for the first time, I suggest very...
Filed under: Project Management, planning, SharePoint, Governance, Wicked Problems, Best Practices, Assurance, social fragmentation, organisational culture, Process Improvement, IBIS, Jeff Conklin, Cognexus, Seven Sigma, Dialogue mapping
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Hi again and welcome to the fifth article on this series of posts on the topic of group sense-making and the pursuit of shared understanding among a group of participants trying to solve a problem. If you haven’t read the previous articles of this series...
Filed under: Project Management, planning, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Wicked Problems, Training, Best Practices, social fragmentation, organisational culture, Process Improvement, IBIS, Jeff Conklin, Cognexus, Dialogue mapping
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Hi there
Welcome to the fourth post in my series on how to deal with the true root cause of project failure. The first three posts were really to set the scene for this post where I will explain the basics of my craft for resolving some of this. First...
Filed under: Project Management, planning, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Risk, Wicked Problems, Best Practices, Assurance, social fragmentation, organisational culture, Process Improvement, IBIS
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Hi all This is part of a somewhat self-indulgent story of how I came to practice a craft that has made a profound difference on how I approach and manage SharePoint projects. If you never read part 1, then I suggest to stop now and read it. This post...
Filed under: Project Management, planning, Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Risk, Wicked Problems, Best Practices, Assurance, social fragmentation, organisational culture, Process Improvement
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This is a post or three that I have really been looking forward to writing, and it is a long time in the making for various reasons. Some of you, after reading it, will no doubt wonder if I have been taking magic mushrooms or something similar, but if...
Filed under: Project Management, Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Wicked Problems, COBiT, Best Practices, social fragmentation, LEAN, Process Improvement, ISO9001, Six Sigma
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