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Sig Rinde

Sig Rinde

Born in Norway, lived in Switzerland and Spain, now living in the south of France. Educated at ETH Zürich, Switzerland and INSEAD, France. Done multiple LBOs, founded a few companies and advised on Mergers & Acquisitions world wide. Now entirely focused on Enterprise Software and a radical break with all former how-to-run-your-business assumptions and systems architecture - distilled into a new solution named Thingamy. Spending time off running orienteering races, cycling, skiing and snowboarding.
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Evidence vs. belief and enterprise software

Evidence vs. belief and enterprise software

By Sig Rinde on September 7, 2011

Just recently “evidence vs belief based management” has been raised again, and that’s good, it should be in the forefront at all times if you ask me. The whole thing seems utterly unbelievable, the indisputable fact [sic] that hugely important decisions, decisions that impacts us all as employees, customers and shareholders are often made based […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged enterprise software, evidence based management, Leadership

Strategic software vs non-strategic software

Strategic software vs non-strategic software

By Sig Rinde on August 3, 2011

I can just as well be upfront about it and invite ridicule at once: There is no business / enterprise software that is first and foremost built to enable strategies, and thus could be termed “strategic”. Let’s look at some characteristics that could help to discern the difference between non-strategic business software and potentially strategic […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Black Swan, enterprise software, strategy, Thingamy

Stifling growth? Challenge some assumptions!

Stifling growth? Challenge some assumptions!

By Sig Rinde on May 25, 2011

McKinsey Quarterly has an article in their May edition – “Preparing your organization for growth” – that yet again reminds me about the total inability to ask the right question. Or question any assumptions at all. If you live in a small apartment with one bedroom and your wife becomes pregnant with triplets, what will […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Barely Repeatable Processes, enterprise software, Leadership, Management, McKinsey Quarterly, Organizational structure, Self-organization, Thingamy, workflow

Enterprise software's wrong focus

Enterprise software’s wrong focus

By Sig Rinde on May 15, 2011

Let me start by refining my earlier “who’s you customer” post: Primary customer/user: This is where your value delivered is appreciated. It’s the daily users and the real reason why you have a business at all. But alas, they often do not want to pay, still this is where your focus must be! Social media: […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Customer, enterprise software, erp, oracle, sap, Social Media

Software and the Complexity Excuse

Software and the Complexity Excuse

By Sig Rinde on April 26, 2011

I am a bit fed up with the (mis)use of the term ‘complex’ as an excuse for not doing the right thing. Especially in Enterprise Software: Costs, implementation times and unwillingness to make me something bespoke – “it’s because enterprise is so complex”. Bollocks to that I say. Stop saying that, it’s not smart. Nothing […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged complexity, enterprise software, State of the world | 1 Response

Social Media - nouns but no verbs

Social Media – nouns but no verbs

By Sig Rinde on April 6, 2011

Practical use of Information Technology seems to follow the same maturity trajectory as languages. But being a young phenomena IT still has a way to go: It has the words in place, i.e. the data model is often precise enough,…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged brp, enterprise software, Facebook, linkedin, Noun, social business, Social Media, social software, Twitter

Gamification?

Gamification?

By Sig Rinde on March 23, 2011

One recent buzzword that I hear a lot is “gamification”. Especially gamification of utterly boring Enterprise Software and consumer experiences in commercial transactions. A heroic attempt to solve one of life’s mysteries; why work sometimes drifts towards boring and in particular why ESW tend to be so unimaginative. On the surface it looks like nothing […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged brp, Business is fun, enterprise software, Game design, gamification, Gamify | 2 Responses

On Productivity

On Productivity

By Sig Rinde on March 2, 2011

“Productive effort, measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input” And I bet you that the next word that is popping up in your head now is efficiency: “Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense” All well and good and what managers are focused on every day at the office. And […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Effectiveness, efficiency, enterprise software, innovation, Productivity

Social Business and the Command & Control Excuse

Social Business and the Command & Control Excuse

By Sig Rinde on February 8, 2011

A few days ago I had the usual pleasure of reading one of Euan’s posts, where there was one paragraph that triggered something in my mind: “On the same day I get an email from a senior official in a government job saying “I’m beginning to think that the inherently democratic nature of social media […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Accountability, command & control, E 2.0, Organization, social business, Social Media, social software

Work is Communication

Work is Communication

By Sig Rinde on January 27, 2011

Work relies on, no, consists of two things: brains and hands communication Brains and hands: The appropriate and best-possible ability must be available, that’s a good start. But what can brains and hands do unless they know what to do?…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged communication, enterprise software, work | 1 Response

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