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Knowing what value you add to your employer or customer is probably the most important thing you can know about your work and career. In an operational sense, adding value means having the appropriate abilities and aptitude to develop and deliver cost-effective products or services. But, the value-added concept also includes principles, values, and attitudes.
The knowledge and learning organization is the new competitive paradigm that impacts all of us. Companies are asking how they can improve their competitive advantage specifically revolving around organizational learning and knowledge management. The thinking goes like this: Brand U’s hold a wealth of knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience about their companies, products, core processes, …
Does moving from job to job add Brand U value to the new employer? The assumption is it does. However, the risks are higher for both parties. Intellectual property is more valuable and portable as Brand U’s with ideas and knowledge can take them to new employers. What can a company do? More are aggressively …
Brand U’s have discovered this painful truth about project management. Brand U project leadership don’t come easy. Too many project managers know project techniques and technology but are people challenged. Lack of people abilities is the major stumbling block and some would say the major career killer of senior project managers because most spend more …
The formation of a Brand U team involves both process and product. The process of team building includes chartering the team, selecting team members, building consensus, negotiating team rules, resolving conflicts, encouraging involvement, ensuring fairness, monitoring progress, providing direction, and reinforcing progress. The product of a team is its deliverables, its results. The team may …
The history of technology is full of neat ideas that just didn’t cut it. Sometimes, the customer had unrealistic expectations. Sometimes, the development team was clueless of what the customer wanted. Sometimes, they didn’t connect. These techno-turkeys include all types of products and inventions
One of the only ways to compete is with technology. John Beakes, Industrialist
The first person gets the oyster; the second person gets the shell. Andrew Carnegie, business person
Tom Peters, the management guru, has stressed for years that customers need to be delighted, amazed, and even wowed. Simply meeting customer requirements won’t differentiate a Brand U or his or her products from the competition anymore. To surpass expectations, the Brand U listens very carefully to customers so they’re pleased at the moment of …