Every year around this time, I will have the great privilege and honor to watch the amazing productions put up by our residents. Last Saturday, I watched the hall play. This coming Sunday, XQRJ. Middle of next week, Chinese Drama. Not too long within this month, Amplitude and later Dance Uncensored. After seven years of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Strategic Management’
1 Feb
Taking lessons from Nature
3+ weeks ago, I went for a run in the early morning and an accident occurred. I twisted one of my right leg joints that is between my toes and my right foot. I don’t know what have happened. One moment I was running fine, the next moment I felt a sudden sharp pain on [...]
16 Dec
People are motivated by fear and greed?
We were having our usual Friday’s night out. The night was young and we were sitting in Coffee Bean chit chatting. Suddenly, my pal, Wee Yeh then said something to this effect: You know Jenson, there are two ways that people get motivated. One, fear and two, greed. These words struck a deep core in [...]
7 Oct
Translating Organization Strategy to Effective Implementation
As a CEO of an organization, one of the key questions that will be constantly on my mind is how can I translate my strategy into effective implementation. Having been studying the topic of strategy for the last four+ years, witnessing how many large corporations implement their strategy, and doing it myself at work and [...]
8 Sep
How can you make the core values of your organization ‘stick’?
Raise your hand if you have no idea what is the true meaning of your organization’s core values. If I am to ask this question to members of an organization, I am confident that more than 80% of its employees will be raising their hands frantically. It makes one wonder why is it so difficult [...]
8 Aug
How to develop an innovative capability in an organization?
I believe that innovation is a product/service to solve a problem. A problem expresses a need. An innovation meets that need. It seem so logical and simple. Yet, I don’t think any organization manages problems and innovations well. Is it really that difficult? I am sure it is. I believe no one organization do not [...]
18 Jun
The science of asking the right strategy questions
I was reading a book called the Seven Strategy Question by Robert Simons and it helped me came to a full appreciation of why we are constantly struggling as an IT department in NUS. It is a revelation at a very deep level. It is so deep that many of the heart ‘knots’ that exist [...]
15 Jun
An eye opener to the transformation effect of IT
Visited Xugong Construction Machinery Group over last week and was extremely humbled by the experiences. It was the first time in my many years as an IT professional that I witnessed the strong ability of a company to carry out a enterprise-wide ERP effort within a short span of 5 months. Seem impossible? Well, I [...]
18 May
Series 1: How does organization create and/or renew its culture?
My boss once told me that changing a corporate culture is an extremely difficult endeavor. I beg to differ to a certain extent. I think changing corporate culture is simple once the intention to change is nurtured. Nurturing that intention to change in employee is not easy because it has to speak to the employee’s intrinsic motivation. [...]
23 Feb
Adapting to a Rapidly Changing World
There is an increasing trend in the world for organization to be agile. Everyone is talking about it. Just like everyone is talking about SOA just two years ago. No one seems to be talking about it now. Why is this so? Is this a management fad like many others? I doubt so. In my [...]
