I recently started a new contract at a new customer. The requirement is to look into his business process, improve his IT environment and systems. We are building a new data center, migrate IT processes to Share point and investing into a Data Warehouse. All of this in this turbulent time you would ask? 

Recession is on every CEO/CIO mind. If your business are not lean you need to re-think your business model or is it? Early talks with my house  friends in India and Middle-East is whispering a slight improvement in the economical cycle. Positive news on exports and continuing of projects on hold. Either way cutting cut and becoming lean or invest to be ready for the upswing you need to align an change your business strategy.                                  

Human nature tries to minimize risk by reducing the amount of change and force us to cut down. In other words, to make a change, we try to change less than we ought to, and therefore do not achieve what we aspire for. This is because small change is not enough change –when it comes to accomplishing our goals. In the end, we dream too small and therefore limit our ability to reach desired goals. 

The challenge is creating stakeholders in the new order and neutralizing or eliminating those holding onto the old way. But how? Well, you either change the people, the processes and the technology or you change the people. 

Change require time it is an educational process. If there is no time – if the urgency is too high – then you are going to have to change people, painful though that is. In other words, you will have to replace them! You’ll have to identify the people who will fight you and you’ll have to remove them or isolate them. This is the hard way, and this is why its always best to act early. Don’t get caught off guard. 

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Brgs – Jacques 

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