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The only thing you can be sure of when speaking to someone else about SRM is that he or she will think it's something different than what you mean. This leads to our first trap in Part I of this two-part Executive Update series on SRM tricks and traps at the conceptual level. What is the purpose of SRM? Is it to have good relationships? To collect data? To foster innovation?
The news of the past few months has been more than a little alarming. Ebola crosses into the US. Rioters take hold of Ferguson, Missouri. The stock market plunges, and plunges again. Watching the news of ISIS (or ISIL, if you prefer), the beheadings, and the imminent threats to any semblance of world peace can make you want to hide under the covers and stay in bed. Is there anything that those in the executive suite can do in this situation? YES! And it doesn't involve profiteering on the backs of tragedy after tragedy. It involves a simple message of sanity and hope.
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Agile Team 0: The Journey
No project manager would deliberately make an irrational decision. The issue arises when we mistakenly believe we are making a rational decision when in fact it's a biased one. The following examples are just a few of the unconscious biases that can potentially lead to irrational decisions.
This article is based on a briefing I had with Sensoria CEO Davide Vigano. Part I covered the company's platform, combining textile and traditional sensors and mobile and cloud technologies to enable manufacturers to create biometric-sensing garments with sensors embedded directly within the fabric of clothing (see "Sensoria, Biometric-Sensing Fabric, and Wearable Technologies, Part I").
Although the growth of the Internet and e-commerce has opened a new universe of opportunities for business, this new world has its share of legal perils. Occasionally, the focus on outside perils causes companies to overlook the perils that come from a very "inside" source -- the company's own employees.
... in the JPMorgan case, according to officials familiar with the briefings, no one could tell the President what he most wanted to know: What was the motive of the attack? "The question kept coming back, 'Is this plain old theft, or is Putin retaliating?'" one senior official said, referring to the American-led sanctions on Russia. "And the answer was: We don't know for sure."