What's been keeping me busy today?

After more than two years I am returning to this blog. Although Google+ also seems to be a good place to write longer-than-140-character-posts, I prefer to have a place that people can find easily, even without having to add me to their Google+ circles. So, here goes.

What's been keeping me busy today? Of course there was work. As Technical Manager @ Skool Automatisering, I get involved in all not-so-standard or how-the-f-did-we-f-this-up technical issues and am expected to SOLVE them. My team is The Endpoint. We solve it, or it doesn't get solved at all. No pressure. Luckily the team consists of a bunch of the best-of-the-best engineers and developers; so far we seem to manage. Although it generally takes longer than the business side of things would like to see. Oh bugger.

Today also was the day to get more acquainted with strategic corporate planning. As a member of the Strategic Planning Xchange group on LinkedIn, I came across Frontier Strategy Group Chris Moore's three part blog post, that describes the challenges of the strategic planning process by answering three critical questions:

• Is the planning process too reliant on faulty assumptions or incomplete data?
• Does your planning process fail to take into account the rapidly changing external market and macro environment?
• Are mid- and lower-level managers placing enough priority on strategic planning, and am I doing enough to improve their planning capabilities?

More and more it becomes clear to me, that strategic planning makes up for an interesting journey. Especially at a company like Skool Automatisering. I am in for interesting journeys. I need to get out of my technical comfort zone. Heck, I might even end up getting my MBA! 

In the mean time. I am going to see where most traffic to this blog will be coming from. Is it Twitter, Facebook or Google+? I am loving Google+ with first of all it's ease of use and secondly the content that is being generated and shared by +Vic Gundrota, +Robert Scoble and the likes. Just loving it! 

Lately I have been using Twitter only to read the silly <140 character status updates from friends and co-workers. Although Facebook is adding new features more quickly than Google+ seems to able to keep up with, I still can't get used to the cluttery UI that seems to have to come with those changes. Sorry Facebook.

So now you know. This is what has been keeping me busy today. Tomorrow, there will be more. Software and Packaging Engineer recruitment and more hardware SkoolControl certification issues. I'm sure. 

But, we'll prevail! The glass is always at least half way full.