IT Maturity and the Changing Mix of People, Process and Technology – Part 2

I posted earlier on the way that the mix of attention to people, process and technology change as business-IT maturity increases.  I will continue that thread here.  As a reminder, below is a graphic representation of the people/process/technology mix in a low business-IT maturity organization.  Note that the technology dimension is dominant, and the people [...]

You’ve Got Information Technology Questions? We Have Answers…

As an IT professional or IT leader, do you find yourself with questions or issues you’d like to get opinions about?  Of course you do.  As a consultant, researcher, educator and author, I get questions all the time.  For me they are my oxygen.  If the questions ever stopped, well, I frankly don’t know what [...]

Marketing Mix and the IT Organization

Inspired yet again by Chris Brogan, I’m trying an experiment with a video post.  I’ve posted before on IT and marketing disciplines and I though this might be a good topic to create a small series (3 or 4) of short video posts on the 4 P’s of marketing as they apply to the work [...]

IT Maturity and the Changing Mix of People, Process and Technology

It has become a cliché to describe the work of IT in terms of People, Process and Technology, but have you thought about how this mix changes with increasing business-IT maturity? I have found over the years that lower maturity shops think, talk, focus and simply pay more attention to technology than to people or [...]

Chris Brogan’s 27 Holiday Gifts to Bloggers

Why don’t I use my blog to simply point to someone else’s post?  Many blogs do, but from my perspective, that does not seem very value-adding.  But Chris Brogan recently offered the world his “27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community.”  I found this to be such a rich and valuable resource, I’m going to [...]

To Centralize or Decentralize IT – That Was The Question…

What are the key issues in thinking through the perennial ‘centralize vs. decentralize IT’ question? This post was triggered by a question I received from a CIO over the holidays (yes, CIOs and management consultants don’t take holidays!)  He was trying to deal with a number of departments which insisted on having their own IT [...]

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