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Language of Execution is a blog focused on creating a step improvement in the execution of strategy. Authored by Ron Lamb, It's based on 30 years of experience and 5 years of research targeted on why execution still fails at much more than 50% of the time. The industry-wide focus on improved project management, strategy formulation, leadership, and alignment seem to be only providing incremental improvement. This blog takes a wider look at execution of strategy and targeted outcomes.
Flat World Software Development, authored by Todd McGrath, provides private and community based offshore outsourcing resources for software development through blogs, forums and reviews of providers.

The Enterprise System Spectator provides independent analysis of issues and trends in the selection and use of enterprise software along with the strengths and weaknesses of the vendors that provide them. This blog is maintained by Frank Scavo, President of Computer Economics, an IT research firm founded in 1979

Acclaimed author and management guru, Tom Peters' site is filled with a variety of information aimed at helping companies. His site includes a blog as well as recommended books, "Cool Friends" interviews, resources, even his vacation photos!
A discussion of the business processes, life choices, management challenges, wireless networks, mobile devices, collaboration software, social networks and technical issues facing organizations and individuals: distributed workgroups, digital lifestyle aggregation, telecommuting and all ways in which you can live the TeleInterActive LifestyleTM. The principle authors are Clarise Z. Doval Santos and Joseph A. di Paolantonio.
David Maister's Passion, People and Principles discusses four broad topics on a regular basis: (a) how to be a manager (b) how to work with clients (c) how to build a professional career and (d) how to do strategy in professional, technical or knowledge businesses. David builds his blog on questions received from other discussion participants as well as experiences derived from his own global consulting career advising professional firms. The blog is an integrated part of a larger website containing a wide range of free resources, including articles, videos, podcasts and seminar handouts.

We’ve created the Functional Methods Blog to collect and catalog our ever increasing inventory of Tools, Templates and other Best Practices. This blog provides an excellent online source for accessing these materials and also offers powerful searching, commenting, and referral features.  In addition to our inventory of Tools, Templates, and Best Practices, you can also access a variety of information about the company, our people, and our engagement history.  Also checkout the category known as “Functionally Speaking” for information and recommendations about other providers of solutions for Professional Services Professionals.

Talent On Target, authored by Rudolf Melik of Tenrox, discusses how today’s “flat world” affects the workforce and the people who manage it.  Melik uses the term “Workforce 2.0” to describe how project-based and service-based workforces--globalized, dispersed, and agile--are taking the place of large, centralized, hierarchical talent pools.  Enterprises that thrive in a global economy will be the ones who manage Workforce 2.0 teams at a fast pace, across organizational and geographic boundaries.

InfoMentis’ Professional Services Blog is focused on helping community members achieve breakthroughs in performance improvement.  Companies face increased competition and challenges in the delivery of Professional Services.  Simply meeting past performance will not result in the level of improvement required in by today’s competitive marketplace

This blog written by Sunny Kumar discusses topics on economics, competitive strategy, change management, marketing including enterprise software, Professional Services, Offshoring and Outsourcing.

Life Beyond Code, written by Rajesh Setty, is a blog targeted at technology professionals. It covers the non-technical aspects that technology professionals should focus on in order to succeed in the long-term. Topics covered include but are not limited to leadership, personal branding, entrepreneurship and just plain thinking from a new perspective on life in general.
This blog, authored by Anthony Mersino, is written as a guide for project managers to apply emotional intelligence to the field of project management. Project management is about the effective application of resources with people being the most valuable resource on a project. Leveraging emotional intelligence can improve the productivity of our resources and the success rates for our projects.
The Open Source Solutions Blog is a companion to the Open Source Solutions for Business Intelligence Research Project. This Blog, a Wiki and Lens develop, support and publish the findings of research into enterprise open source projects. The principle authors are Clarise Z. Doval Santos and Joseph A. di Paolantonio.

The Ndarala Group has launched a new blog - Managing the Professional Services Firm - to encourage discussion on ways of improving the management of professional services firms.  The new blog will be edited by Jim Belshaw and contain a mix of short comments, links to resources, as well as some longer pieces.  For further information contact jim.belshaw@ndarala.com .

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