Five actions to take to accelerate IT and business change
Don't do it - three reasons:
1. Your customers are important - they do not care how you are doing against another particular company, they care how you are doing with them
2. Benchmarking in IT is often only done to justify our existence - justify your existence by becoming the Provider of Choice in your organisation and stop wasting your time, and everyone else's
3. If you benchmark, you simply become as good - and as bad - as everyone else.
Alternative choice? Simply set a standard for yourselves that is higher than anyone else can ever reasonably expect of you.
Now, what are you, personally going to do?1. Do what I suggest
2. Disagree - please post comment or e-mail me davidprivate@nakedleader.com - The IT Deal is this - you disagree, then you also put forward your own suggestion on what to do instead
3. Do what you have always done (and get what you have always got)
My Top 20 Guru's: 5th
Guru : Charles Handy
Key Book : The Empty Raincoat
Key Messages : Spirituality in the workplace is essential
Why so guru? Because he dares to go where others dare not
Books sold: Zillions
Misc fact: For every book Charles writes, he has material for five more - he is a prolific writer, and a prolific rejector of his own material!
Single lesson to put into action today: How much of you - the real you - do you bring to work each and every day?
How can I help you? How can we help each other? Whatever your Life leadership question, challenge or vision, e-mail me to be anonymous - david@nakedleader.com or post as a comment. I will find out the most powerful how-to - exactly what to do, how and when. That is my promise to you - that is my promise. Thank you. David
Comments (1)
Those that can do, those that can't say don't
Posted by David Locke | December 7, 2007 5:19 PM
Posted on December 7, 2007 17:19