This week, I plan to discuss some core concepts of Information Technology Enterprise Management Success.  I have written on various topics like this before as part of my IT Management Tools and Productivity series.  

Though I stray far and wide in my management consultant product usage, I do find myself frequently coming back to one that I learned from FranklinCovey.  I am a huge fan of a concept for goal making that they call Wildly Important Goals or WIGs.  It is part of their The 4 Disciplines of Execution™ organizational consulting program.

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The idea behind Wildly Important Goals or WIGs is not unique to FranklinCovey, though.  It is simply the concept that humans are wired to really excel at only one thing at a time.  When a person gives their all to performing a single function they can create true world-class success.  On the other hand, when people are expected to multi-task at a hundred little goals they are lucky to produce mediocrity only. The idea is for leadership to invest the time to determine 1-3 goals that are so critical that their success will produce organizational success and conversely their failure will be group failure.  These then become their WIGs.

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When you pick a good WIG, then you can align that goal to every single member of your team or organization.  When you get hundreds of people aligned and producing towards a goal that actually is critical to your success, then amazing things happen! It can be one of the most exciting productivity successes to see for a management type.

My thought today is What WIGs does your organization use?  I am especially interested in Enterprise sized communications and information technology groups and what they consider to be their most important goals to accomplish.  I have used many in the past years and plan to share them over the next few posts on this topic, but today I wonder what our community has used?

What goals do you consider to be critical for large communications and information technology firms?

What goals must be accomplished to prevent you from failing?

Do you use financial or objectives based ones?

Please share and I will make sure to highlight the best that get added.  Thanks!

That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for November 30, 2009  by Scott Coughlin.

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