I find marketing to be a tricky subject for the IT profession – there are some fine lines that can be easily crossed, and it’s not a discipline that IT organizations have typically been founded upon. Project management, business process reengineering, infrastructure – these are more likely than marketing prowess to be among the core [...]
Filed under: Demand Maturity, IT Management, IT Maturity, Supply Maturity | Tagged: IT marketing, kano analysis, marketing | 1 Comment »
Like most of us, I’ve been thinking about the current economic climate and its implications for IT leaders. I posted back in early September in The Economy, Information Technology and Opportunity Creation that it is now more important than ever to find creative and constructive ways to drive growth and innovation by whatever means. I’ve [...]
Filed under: IT Infrastructure, IT Management, Supply Maturity, Web 2.0 | Tagged: innovation, IT and recession, recession | 1 Comment »
I’ve been a believer in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) for many years. I went through a certification course about 18 years ago when I was in training for an organizational change management certification. Over time I learned to be pretty good at assessing someone’s type preference just by observing and listening to them for a [...]
Filed under: Change Management, General, Useful Tools | Tagged: MBTI | 4 Comments »
Over many years of preaching and teaching IT portfolio management, I’ve been frequently frustrated and disappointed by seeing IT organizations screw up portfolio management, and as a result, miss out on the significant and important benefits this discipline holds. They do so by buying into the concepts, then jumping to a tool choice, implementation, declaring [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, Demand Maturity, IS Management, IT Infrastructure, IT Management, IT Maturity | Tagged: IT portfolio, IT portfolio management | 2 Comments »
I was watching BBC America World News the other day, and there was an interesting piece on the G20 summit. Dr. Irwin Stelzer, Senior Fellow at the Hudson institute made the assertion, “Europeans are very much in love with process, while Americans are very much in love with results.” As a European who has lived [...]
Filed under: IT Management | Tagged: business outcomes, Business Process Reengineering, outcomes, process | Leave a Comment »
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