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Michael Cardinal

@mj_cardinal

According to some, I know things...what those things are I still don't know.

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Service Management World Session 604: Measure Twice, Cut Once, Make it Fit?: Measurement and Metrics Lessons Learned - presented by Michael Cardinal #SMWorld ubm.io/35uaSNv

Service Management World Session 604: Measure Twice, Cut Once, Make it Fit?: Measurement and Metrics Lessons Learned -  presented by <a href="/MJ_Cardinal/">Michael Cardinal</a> #SMWorld ubm.io/35uaSNv
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Client: You folks are the experts, tell us how to fix things Consultant: The solution is x+y+z Client: That's not what I want. I want the answer to be p+q+r Consultant: <rolls eyes><shakes head><quits job><moves to the mountains>

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When did the success of an organization become more important than respect and dignity of its staff and people? Are we on the societal downslope?

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The flow I have seen with colleagues: school>work for org>work for consulting or training firm (me currently)>work for self. Will I follow to the next step? Pondering the next step

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Trust, respect, confidence, understanding. Key to business IT alignment-Jim Dulle. But also key to employer-employee relationships #Smworld2019

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Happy New Year-To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow.-Robert Pirsig

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Irony: when you spend six years promoting service management to your customers and it takes that long for your own company to "get" the concept.

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Serious question: With a number of organizations and schools shifting to work from home, will our current infrastructure handle the extra load? Will IT departments be able to step up to the challenge?

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When I taught Continuity Management during #ITIL classes I included life-safety (fires, etc) and pandemic planning as part of the broader needs of BCM planning. Continuity is about people too, not just systems and technology #lessonslearned #itsm

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What fundamental changes to our habits, culture, way of life, routines will emerge from the current situation? #Historians and #culture specialists want to know #lessonslearned

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Will this be the time when people embrace #proactiveness and #continualimprovement as the norm? Sadly probably not (and history shows otherwise) but I can dream... #lessonslearned

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Interesting how a microscopic organism can bring society to a #tippingpoint How will we emerge from this moment? The Renaissance followed the largest plague in #history #lessonslearned

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Having studied systems for a long-time, I think people will now begin to understand better the interconnectedness, intricacies, and interweave of things. Society is not linear. #systemsthinking #senge #fifithdiscipline

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In times like these, this shows the importance of understanding systems, value and supply networks and process. Good process is flexible to changes in the system #servicemanagement #ITSM #valuechain cnn.com/2020/03/20/bus…