Managing Performance
In their first Column for BPTrends, Geary Rummler and Alan Ramias discuss the issue of costly IT projects that fail and are ultimately abandoned by their companies. They believe these costly blunders are avoidable and will devote future Columns to suggest possible solutions.
Geary Rummler
Geary Rummler is the founder and chairman of the Performance Design Lab, a Tucson-based research and consulting firm specializing in the design of performance systems for organizations in the United States and abroad. His clients have included Motorola, Ford, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Citibank, and Sun Microsystems. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Geary is co-author of Training: Handbook for Professionals (1988 with G. S. Odiorne) and Improving Performance: Managing the White Space on the Organization Chart (1990, 1995, with A. P. Brache). In 2004, he published Serious Performance Consulting According to Rummler. He has published a variety of books and articles that have appeared in numerous professional and management journals and handbooks.
Latest posts by Geary Rummler (see all)
- Performance Improvement: A Framework for Defining and Designing the Structure of Work, Part 2 - September 2, 2008
- Performance Improvement: A Framework for Designing the Structure of Work - April 1, 2008
- Performance Improvement: The IT-Business Gap—Another Root Cause - December 4, 2007
- Managing Performance: IT Disasters—A Root Caus - July 3, 2007
- Managing Performance - February 6, 2007
