Companies are systems composed by different areas and levels. Those areas and levels perform a very important role in the organization that will (or not) allows it to achieve (or not) its objectives. Said that it is important to understand how vital is the information system flow. Even when some people may think that this post is mainly focused on big corporations, it is not. Information flows will determine how effective is the decision making process into any company no matter how bit it is. If you have a 10 persons company and the 10 are making decisions with a 30 pages report, then are all of
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IDENTIFYING SITE INTERACTIONS, THE KEY FOR OPTIMIZING
If you would like to optimize your site performance it is key to first identify the interactions that a user could generate on it. To do so you must forget about the holistic vision of systems by the systemic vision (highly recommended to read Peter Senge’s Fifth Discipline). The holistic vision says that in order to optimize each part of the system you need to optimize each part of the system while the systemic vision says that the important thing is to understanding and optimizing not the parts (or objects) but the interactions and not all the interactions but the one/s that are mainly constraining your website from a
Continue readingIS THERE SUCH THING AS A WEBSITE?
During my last presentation at the Web Analytics Day I asked the attendees “What is a Website”? and just one or two persons where able to hardly answer. This is not weird, it is based on the way humans learn. We tend to learn things just once and then we just repeat what we’ve learnt. So when we think we know something we just stop asking “why” and the learning process is done. That represents a very danger behavior when the learnt knowledge is not so. In this case nobody asked themselves what a website is because everybody thought they
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