Reflections on 1 Year of Blogging: 10 Lessons Learned

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 [...]

Speed vs. Momentum in Organizational Change

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 [...]

Lack of Accountability: Who’s Dirty Little Secret?

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 [...]

Web-Oriented Architecture: From Push to Pull – So Very 2.0!

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 [...]

IT Organization Design: Part 2

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 [...]

The Economy, Information Technology and Opportunity Creation

I realize it might be somewhat outré (and very circular!) to reference a post that is referencing one of my own posts, but I’m going to do that.  Espen Andersen picked up my post The New IT Role: From Problem Solving to Opportunity Creation and made some important expansions on the inherent ideas, in his [...]

The New IT Role: From Problem Solving to Opportunity Creation

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 [...]

IT Pros – What Will Become of Them?

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 [...]

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