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There are two aspects to technology risk management. One lies within the technology itself, the other is lurking in your organisation.

The technology part is easy. You have vendors to honour warranties, service agreements to ensure service and technicians to fix problems.

It’s the non-technical elements that expose you to the highest risk because lurking within your organisation are…

Users!

Users and their expectations are the single biggest issue you need to address in your technology risk management plan. They don’t know what they want, then change their mind when you’ve built something. They complain, they are uncooperative. They are human.

So your risk management plan needs to take all this into account. There is no way you can implement a quality assurance process if the system generated risks are not taken into account. The system in case is your organisation. And the people are more than just participants, they are your system…

 

… check, define, manage Where would you start with Business Process Management? No, where do you start…? It’s such a huge area. Covering everything from workflow to IT, enterprise architecture to HR. And, depending on who’s writing, everything in between. The software industry has their own definitions. As do organisational development specialists. Strategic consulting companies [read more...]

 

Share your experience with other users… Process mapping software can be as simple as Word drawing objects, Excel cells or Powerpoint diagrams. Or the proverbial napkin at a café And where a piece of paper or a whiteboard is enough to represent simple processes, these traditional tools have largely been replaced by computer drawing tools [read more...]

 

… read, study and follow the recipe A robust business mapping process means that maps start appearing soon after starting. But like any good mapmaker, an organisational cartographer needs a mandate. So we’ll start here by assuming that someone in your organisation with decision-making authority thinks that you need some maps. What happens then? Begin [read more...]

 

Methods are the tools we bring to bear on the issues we identify as worthy of our attention. They are the means to an end, not the end in themselves… Here’s a generic approach that ensures a feedback loop without getting bogged down in technical details. It is based on first assessing the scope of [read more...]

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