Fresh Approaches to IT Leadership Competency Assessment

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

Virtually all CIO’s recognize they have a talent challenge – the competencies they have in their IT organization are often not the competencies they need today.  This is an issue I’ve wanted to post on for some time, but it’s complex and requires highly specialized expertise – people who both fully understand the Human Resources [...]

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Mind Mapping as Collaborative Ideation and Problem Solving

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

Years ago I was blown away when a facilitator at one of my clients began a very large meeting (dozens of people) to problem solve a very large issue (data management) by laying out an incredibly ambitious agenda for a very short meeting.  I remember feeling, “Oh no – she’s setting herself up to fail!”  [...]

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IT Organization Design and the Value Disciplines

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

My recent post on Shadow IT: The Good , The Bad and The Ugly solicited an interesting comment about organization design and the placement of application development versus application support.  This got me thinking back over years (probably 25!) of helping clients with IT organizational design, and the tools, techniques and principles I’ve used over [...]

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Shadow IT: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve posted before about Shadow IT, but I want to revisit the subject – I think it’s a big issue that needs some more air.  I’ve been reminded of this lately as I work with a client with a neglected IT capability.  A new CIO has been brought in (the first sign that a hitherto [...]

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The Widening Gap In Business-IT Maturity Levels

Posted on July 19, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

We have been compiling the results of one facet of our multi-company research into business-IT maturity – the maturity assessment that companies took as part of participation in the research project. The purpose of the survey was to provide an assessment of business-IT capability in a corporation or business unit. We asked that the survey be [...]

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From Enterprise Architecture to Ecosystem Architecture

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve been thinking about IT architecture – more correctly, Enterprise Architecture, and most recently, something I’m referring to as Ecosystem Architecture.  This thinking was stimulated by some of the results of our recent Reaching Level 3 multi-company research project.  That research showed that one of the most critical gaps in many companies IT capabilities is [...]

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“Edginess” and IT Innovation

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

In preparing for our upcoming Executive Perspective in Chicago on September 18/19, my team has been exploring what is meant by “edginess?”  What does edginess look like in its various forms?  When and how is edginess good, productive, appropriate?  When is it bad, counterproductive, inappropriate? John Hagel and John Seely Brown in their landmark paper, “From [...]

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Web 2.0 and the Other Side of Blogging…

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

I had a client experience the other day that got me thinking about IT professionals, Web 2.0 and the not-so-simple act of “keeping up” with today’s incredible pace of technology change. I was in an IT meeting with about eighteen IT managers.  It was my first meeting with this group.  I noted that EVERY one of them [...]

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High Speed Internet/Media Convergence – Customer Update

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

I recently posted on my excitement about becoming a beneficiary of higher Internet speeds and media convergence at home.  At the time I was a brand new customer of AT&T’s U-verse service.  One month later, I’m still delighted – I would not go back to DSL (fine as that was) or to DirecTV satellite service [...]

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