Business-IT Maturity and the Portfolio Lens

Posted on November 30, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

I was with a client recently as their CIO was leading one of their regular “town hall” meetings (live meeting for those in HQ, videoconference for those elsewhere).  He was talking (eloquently!) about Next Generation Enterprises, Web 2.0 technologies and the implications for their company and for their IT / shared services organization. A question from [...]

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Do You Twitter

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

If you are like me – relatively new to the emerging web 2.0 universe, you might be afraid to admit that you only have a vague notion (no idea???) what all this “twitter” stuff is about.  I came across this What’s Twitter post yesterday, and found it helpful.  It appears on the intriguingly titled Fractals [...]

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Reaching Level 3: The Ambition Factor – Part 3

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

I raised a real-life question about ambition in earlier posts (see The Ambition Factor  and Ambition Factor Part 2).  If you are level 1 business-IT maturity, where should your ambition be in driving a transformation?  There are arguments (in fact, my client has decided) for a level 2 ambition – “get the trains running on [...]

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Multi-client Research Questions II

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

In yesterday’s post, I mentioned the new Reaching Level 3 Mutli-client research program that I am involved in, and that is kicking off on Friday.  I said that I’d like to raise questions on this blog that I think are fundamental to improving IT capability in general, but also more specifically to accelerating the journey [...]

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New Multi-client Research Program

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’m very excited!  At the end of this week I’m participating in a new multi-cient “future leading practices” research initiative:  Project: RLT – Reaching Level 3 Business-IT Capability. From time to time I’d like to raise questions on this blog that I think are fundamental to improving IT capability in general, but also more specifically to [...]

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IT’s Role In Leading the Way to Web 2.0?

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

My colleague Susan Scrupski (ITSinsider), who has taught me so much about the blogosphere and social media (and helped me see that I still have much to learn!)  just introduced me to a fascinating blog: innovation playgroundpublished by Idris Mootee.  All his posts are informative and some quite stimulating, raising important questions and sharing insights [...]

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The IT Organization c2017 – Part 3

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

Continuing on this track, and again looking through the lens of the emerging Next Generation Enterprise (or Enterprise 2.0 if you prefer) one common theme that keeps surfacing is that of “on demand.”  This idea gets interpreted in many different ways, and even purloined as a marketing label, the notion of being able to access [...]

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The IT Organization c2017 – Part 2

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

Let’s continue with our speculation about the nature of enterprise IT organizations in 2017.  I’m reminded about a book I read many years ago called When Old Technologies Were New by Carolyn Marvin.  In the early days of electrification, most large companies would have a Vice President, Electrification.  It made me think then would the time [...]

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Reaching Level 3: The Ambition Factor – Part 2

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

In my last post I raised the question from a real life consulting situation as to whether an ambition to reach Level 2 Business-IT Maturity is sufficient to really engage and motivate employees in what is undoubtedly painful change.  And it’s not just about enough motivation, it’s also about the proper end state vision.  If you [...]

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Reaching Level 3: The Ambition Factor

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve been working with a new (to me) client on leadership development for their IT leadership group.  The company is large, complex and global, and going through a major transformation of their IT operating model.  A fundamental question arose in a workshop I was facilitating.  For a whole bunch of very good reasons (including many [...]

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