Quite amazing, but this blog enjoys its 1st anniversary today! I’d like to use this minor milestone to draw a few lessons learned, and perhaps some insight about blogging, Web 2.0, and management of change. My entry to the blogosphere arose from 3 primary drivers: 1. The first was the acquisition of The Concours Group [...]
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Last week I was teaching an IT Leadership Development program with a team of senior IT executives – virtually all of them engineers by training and by inclination. It was a very energizing and productive session, loaded with thoughtful dialog and rich, provocative discussion. At one point, one of my colleagues on the faculty, while [...]
Filed under: Change Management | Tagged: Deming, Deming's 14 points, Flywheel Effect, Jim Collins, Organizational change, organizational change management | 4 Comments »
Susan Cramm’s interesting post for Harvard Business Publishing, “IT’s Dirty Little Secret: No Accountability” contains some worthwhile observations and valid recommendations, but her post’s title is misleading. I believe it is not “IT’s dirty little secret” but the “Business’s dirty little secret.” As has been observed before, businesses get the IT they deserve, and it [...]
Filed under: IS Management, IT Management, IT Maturity | Tagged: IT spending, IT value, value realization | 1 Comment »
Dion Hinchcliffe’s excellent recent post on Web-Oriented Architecture (actually, this is his latest in a series of posts on this topic) reflects an important shift in thinking around technology architecture and componentization. This is the shift from push to pull approaches to change – a shift I’ve covered from from time to time in this [...]
Filed under: IT Management, IT Maturity, Web 2.0 | Tagged: Ecosystem Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, SOA, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment »
Picking up on my previous post on Organization Design and the Value Disciplines, my colleague Roy Youngman reminded me of the theoretical work by Henry Mintzberg that we drew from many years back. At that time, Roy was helping me to write a book, Development Effectiveness: Strategies for IS Organizational Transition. (Note: I’m not plugging the book [...]
Filed under: IT Management, IT Maturity, Key Frameworks | Tagged: 6 sigma, IT Organization, Mintzberg, organization design, TQM | 1 Comment »
I was talking with a colleague yesterday about the ways IT management consulting has changed over the last couple of years. On reflection, the changes for IT management consulting mirror in many ways the changes in the role of IT – at least as far as the more mature business-IT environments are concerned. For many [...]
Filed under: IT Management, IT Maturity, Web 2.0 | Tagged: process innovation, product innovation, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »
Ben Worthen had a great post last week in the WSJ Business Technology blog entitled “Tech Pros: The Next Dinosaurs?” Ben cites Nucleus Research’s Rebecca Wettemann: It’s the logical consequence of two interrelated trends: the average worker becoming more tech savvy, and tech companies realizing that appealing directly to workers is as – if not [...]
Filed under: Demand Maturity, IT Management, IT Maturity, Supply Maturity | Tagged: Demand Maturity, Supply Maturity | 3 Comments »
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