System iNetwork

August 23, 2007

Bob Tipton on a "Maniacal Focus"

I did a podcast with Bob Tipton this summer as sort of a preview to the System iNetwork's System i Core Decisions: Business Applications Roadshow that's hitting the streets this fall. The full-length podcast went a little long, and there was a lot of great material that didn't get used as initially planned — but I get to share the extras with you now. In the podcast, Tipton covers IT organizational excellence, fundamental ways to rethink application development and delivery, and the characteristics of businesses that have clarity of purpose that helps lead to the kind of organizational chemistry that can surmount any challenge. (Bob says it better than I do.) Here's a snip:

"Excellence-minded organizations have a single minded or maniacal focus on excellence in terms of their delivery — nothing gets in the way of that, and that's also true in their IT resources," Tipton says. "They have the ability to sort through choices, sort through options, and make the best decision moving forward. Sort of ironically, and this is maybe a counter-intuitive thing, especially for technology folks, is that excellence-minded organizations tend to get the people equation right first, they then work on their processes second, and then down the list they use supporting tools and technologies and systems to be able to support their people and processes."

There's a ton of a great stuff, so check out this podcast now — you can stream it by clicking on the link if your browser supports that or do a right click and download it to your desktop.

Posted by cmaxcer at August 23, 2007 10:52 AM