Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ, March 18, 2008, Business Technology page) published an interesting article, “Pleasing Google’s Tech-Savvy Staff.” WSJ interviewed Google’s impressive CIO Douglas Merrill on “How do you run the IT department at a company whose employees are considered among the world’s most tech-savvy?” I liked the piece for a couple of reasons. [...]
Filed under: IT Management, IT Maturity | Tagged: Douglas Merrill, Google, innovation, Redefining Employee Computing | Leave a Comment »
I’m increasingly invited to retirement celebrations for former and current consulting clients and friends. They are quite distressing events. First, the retiree is typically putting on a brave face, boasting about all the golf and fishing they will enjoy. But often beneath the surface bluster is a deep-seated fear. Sometimes they ask me if my [...]
Filed under: IS Management, IT Maturity, Reading Suggestions | Tagged: Business-IT Maturity, Retire Retirement, retirement, talent management, Tammy Erickson | Leave a Comment »
I posted from time-to-time on what I’ve called “sticking points” – how things that you had to do (e.g., practices, processes) to get from Level 1 Business-IT Maturity to Level 2 could trap you in Level 2 if you did not modify them, or in some cases, dispense with them entirely! It’s not that they [...]
Filed under: IT Maturity, Supply Maturity | Tagged: development methods, innovation, maturity model sticking points, stage-gate process | Leave a Comment »
Someone sent me an email about my blog and the small business in which she works. She wrote, “Level 2 sounds like my workplace. It drives me insane that we have no in-house IT person. I feel that any business over a certain size should have at the very least a part-time in house [...]
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I had a question from a colleague recently that I’d like to address in this post. She asked, “I’m going to ask a possibly ‘dumb’ question, but since I believe that there are no dumb questions I’m asking it anyway… Since level 3 is constantly evolving i.e., today’s Level 3 will be tomorrow’s Level 2 [...]
Filed under: Demand Maturity, IS Management, IT Management, IT Maturity, Supply Maturity | Tagged: Business-IT Maturity, Demand Maturity, reaching level 3, SaaS, SOA, Supply Maturity | Leave a Comment »
In our multi-company research WebEx call earlier this week a participant reflected on the changing attitudes to “Shadow IT” – that term IT professionals give to non-IT professionals when they ‘step into their IT professional turf’ and do stuff that should have been ‘better left to the professionals.’ The Shadow IT phenomenon is a great [...]
Filed under: IS Management, IT Infrastructure, IT Maturity | Tagged: IT innovation, Level 3 business-IT maturity, shadow IT | 3 Comments »
Back in mid-December, I posted “You Know You’ve Reached Level 3 When…“ As the BSG Alliance multi-company research project that has been examining Reaching Level 3 Business-IT Maturity shifts gears from its research to its reporting phase, I want to revisit that headline. Here are some ‘one-liners’ that are being discussed in today’s WebEx [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, Demand Maturity, IT Management, IT Maturity, Portfolio Management | Tagged: business governance, business portfolio, business strategy, Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, IT governance, IT portfolio, IT relationship manager, IT strategy | 2 Comments »
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