New opportunities

2011 has gotten off to an exciting start. We began this year by transforming the Linköping Technology Management office to a legal entity as its own “AB” within the Know IT group. This means that we know also have our own CEO, Roland Almgren. I got to know Roland at an assignment at Scania a couple of years back and I really appreciate the opportunity to work with him again. He’s a really experienced technology management consultant and when it comes to improving businesses with aid of business modeling he is leading edge.

For me personally this means a great opportunity to help Roland shape our business areas, to get a lot of experience from the transition “division” to “legal entity”, i.e. the corporatization process. Additionally I have been asked to be a member of the board which will be a really interesting task. So 2011, here we go!

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Recruiting

And the first ad is up at our homepage <--

Technology Management

I just finalized a collaborative effort in order to put together some recruitment ads. We are intensifying our search for some really good additions to our staff of Technology Management consultants. It is always challenging to find experienced people, even more so when they need to be proficient with both T and M.


Guess the ads will be available across the Internet in a short while... anyhow we are looking for people in Linköping, Gothenburg and Stockholm.

I guess a good hint to whether or not you should be interested is e.g. if you find at least some of the topics in this blog interesting (irrespective if you agree or not)…

Supplier dynamics

Sitting here designing a presentation about supplier management, the consequences of lack thereof and how we TM-consultants at Know IT can help improve... and I just realized something!

All while listening to Mannen I Den Vita Hatten 16 år Senare on Spotify.

Raggmunk

Lunch at the office today together with our sister company Know IT Business Consulting. Got a chance to present Technology Management and what we do/think/live/breathe - from my perspective. Always good to be forced to present what you do, makes you think… what do you actually do?

The presentation went well with some good questions and reflections that I will keep in mind ‘til next time. Technology Management is a rather interesting concept since it isn’t written in stone yet, it adapts over time as I (and my colleagues) progress and evolve. For the interested in the subject you can always travel back to the future and redo your masters at Lund University... or just ask...

The rest of the day has been quite hectic with a very deep and fast dive into requirement management systems; both traditional and more hyped cloud solutions. For the interested I should have a decent exposition of the current market trends by tomorrow.

Well, blog-break officially over, it is time to plunge back into the RMS world for a while and let an echo play my counterpart.

A day at the other office

I went to Gothenburg and the TM-HQ yesterday. First off 6 hours in the car with my co-workers Gunilla and Mats is always great, somehow we always seem to save the world during those rides (and Gunilla, don’t forget Flight of the Conchords). This trip also gave us time to go through our latest survey with regards to employee satisfaction and it seems that working with Technology Management is great fun.

As if we needed a survey to know that?

In Gothenburg we kicked off with a meeting discussing one of our business areas (focused on architecture). We made some exceptional break-troughs during that meeting. So exceptional I won’t discuss them here. Yet.
Now I just got to get down in writing what we said, fluttered about, scribbled on the board, shouted in exclamation. And so forth.

After our “office meeting + lunch” (which was as usual interesting and this time around also inspiring, at least to me) we continued working with the business areas in larger groups and then concluded the day with a session in our Obeya room. The Obeya room is a recent addition at our office and I like the idea, since we work a lot externally with Lean Product Development etc it makes sense to use fitting techniques for our internal “knowledge process” as well.

Full of energy today… guess it comes from meeting all the people yesterday.

So – Upwards. Onwards.


Flight of the Conchords - formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based parody folk duo

Men hur, eller but how?

How do one start blogging? I don't know. This is the first time. Do I have anything interesting to say? If you ask me, yes, I am interested in my own opinions... for the rest I let you decide.

I tend to contemplate a lot - when biking, when trying to sleep, when working, when driving - about different challenges in my area of expertise... what I lack is a good way to store these ideas, both good and bad... very bad at times, or even start a discussion around them.

Where I work, Know IT Technology Management, we are a lot of people who like to do this, contemplate and discuss, and while we occasionally get long interesting e-mail chains going about different subjects I think it is a waste of interesting ideas, hot debates and energy when we don't share it with whomever who is interested (in order to build even better ideas). So if I could write one post interesting enough to get at least 1 comment from one of my very talented co-workers I will celebrate with a beer, a Belgian beer.

Why English? Well I don't know. I felt a bit international today and maybe I'm already so high on this "me me me" rush from all this blogging that I acutally think that some day one of all my English-speaking friends will find this little corner of the Internet.