The IT Relationship Manager’s Role in Expanding Business-IT Capability

For those who care, I apologize for a recent decrease in frequency of posts – I hope it’s not a real problem for you.  I’m still trying to figure out the optimal frequency and best days to post to this blog. Of course, the bigger issue is sustaining the content, which requires concentrated writing and, perhaps [...]

Platform Thinking

Idris Mootee’s excellent blog, Innovation Playground posted on “What’s the Difference Between Platform Strategy vs. Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy?”  This is a great post, and a opens up a huge area for analysis, speculation and discussion around platform thinking.  Platform thinking emerged as an important dimension in our recent Reaching Level 3 Multi-company research.  [...]

The Miracle of Open Source

I enjoyed this post by Tom Evslin in his Fractals of Change blog.  Tom describes himself as a “Rip Van Winkle” of programming – a programmer who stopped writing code for 17 years and has recently started again.  He notes, “At my age, I can build much more interesting stuff in a day of coding [...]

Is IT Collaboration an Unnatural Act: Part 4

In the last post and post before that, I examined a real life case study of a team collaborating using Web 2.0 tools.  Now I want to review the lessons learned from that experiment. Many (most?) busy people working on a team with deadlines for deliverables will wait until the deadline is really close, and [...]

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