strategic planning

When You Think the Strategy is Wrong

By CMS Report - Posted on 09 February 2010

Harvard Business Review: Chances are that at some point in your career you've been asked to implement a strategy that was developed by someone other than yourself. A manager's job is to implement that strategy, and to be sure that her team, unit, or department executes well. But what if you believe the strategy you've been asked to implement is flawed?

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CMS Wire: What's Coming In Open Source CMS In 2010

By CMS Report - Posted on 22 December 2009

"Call it our open source 2010 predictions with less guesswork and high hopes. [CMS Wire] posed a set of questions to participating open source CMS projects regarding their own plans for 2010, and their thoughts on where CMS in general is going for 2010."

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Quoting: Committees and Group Decisions

By Bryan - Posted on 16 May 2009

"All too often, however, committees don't work well at all -- resulting in a relentlessly short-term outlook, an inability to stick to strategic plans, a slapdash pursuit of the latest fad and a tendency to blame mistakes on somebody else."

-Jason Zweig, "The Intelligent Investor: How Group Decisions End Up Wrong-Footed", The Wall Street Journal, April 25-26, 2009

Social Applications are Social Networks

By Bryan - Posted on 22 April 2009

20bits: "Are all social applications also social networks? Dave McClure made a passing reference to this a little over a year ago, saying “RockYou & Slide [are] arguably social networks of their own.”¹ I want to make the stronger claim: social applications are always social networks".

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How to come up with big ideas

By Bryan - Posted on 16 April 2009

Silicon.com: Innovation is the successful exploitation of new ideas and while those that are generated may not be all IT-related, it will do the CIO no harm to be seen to be leading on innovation.

I don't have the complete answer to this but I would like to throw out some thoughts about how to collect those new ideas:"

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Quoting IT: Strategy and Execution

By Bryan - Posted on 18 December 2008

"An objective without strategy, or a strategy without execution remains a dream."

-Dries Buytaert, Drupal, Acquia, and Mollom, "Contributing back to Drupal", Buytaert.net.

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Two SilverStripe Websites

By Bryan - Posted on 16 December 2008

Sigurd Magnusson sent us an email to let us know that "SilverStripe has now split its company and open source projects into two totally revamped and beautiful websites". The two SilverStripe websites will of course have different purposes.

Head on over to the SilverStripe.com site if you want to know more about our company and the business side of things. But if you're looking for the SilverStripe community, developer documentation, or the roadmap for the future of the product, you're in the right place [SilverStripe.org].

Explanation for the split was given at SilverStripe.org stating that the changes were made to "make navigation and discovery easier" for SilverStripe's customers and developers. However, I suspect the purpose of splitting the site had to also do with the fact that SilverStripe as a commercial entity needed to have its business side become less visible in its own open source project.

SilverStripe's decision to separate the commercial side and the open source side of their business is a strategic business decision. I have observed that it is very difficult for open source projects to flourish without a strong open source community supporting the project. Most open source communities become quite distracted when commercial interests tries to circumvent control and direction away from the community. By giving SilverStripe the open source community a chance to flourish more on its own via a community website, SilverStripe the company can spend more time focusing on the needs of their business customers at SilverStripe.com. Strategic moves such as this usually result in a win-win situation for both parties involved.