IT’s Toxic Assets and Self-Funded Stimulus Plan

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

OK – so I’m climbing on the latest news headlines – forgive me, but I do see an analogy that is important for IT leaders to be aware of.  Current business conditions mean this is a great time for CIO’s to clean up their back yards, and aggressively “kick the IT legacy problem in the [...]

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The Dangers of Cloudy Thinking!

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’m fascinated and bemused by this Cloud Computing phenomenon.  Never before have I had such a strong feeling that something really, really important is happening – a fundamental discontinuity, if you will, in the way we leverage IT – and yet most of my clients and those I am interacting with in a couple of [...]

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Clouds, SaaS and the Wal-Martification of Health Care IT

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

Over the years, a lot of my consulting work has been in pharmaceutical and medical devices industries.  That experience has been augmented over the last few months through my work with a major integrated health care, biomedical research, and medical education institution.  Through these experiences I have become fascinated with the potential for IT to [...]

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Personal Knowledge Management – One Guru’s Framework

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I will break my own principle about not simply referencing another blog’s work, but I think in this case, it’s a worthwhile rule break.  I came across a great piece by Harold Jarche on his blog called Sense Making with PKM. Harold nicely lays out a simple Personal Knowledge Management framework combining internal processes with [...]

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Portfolio Management: So Much More Than a Collection of Projects!

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve posted recently about Program Management – mainly in response to a reader’s question about how to group projects into programs.  Her question, in turn, was in response to one of my most popular posts on the distinctions between Project, Program and Portfolio Management. IT Portfolio Management Matters! I’m delighted that my old post on [...]

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The Art and Science of Grouping Projects into Programs

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I just received a comment on an old post, Project vs. Program vs. Portfolio Management.  This has been a popular post since it was written back in October 2007.  The comment read: I’m doing a research on how do organizations group their projects into programs, please tell me how do they go about doing that. [...]

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New To This Blog? Some Pointers for Getting the Most out of IT Organization Circa 2017

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

If you’ve just (or have recently) stumbled upon this blog, welcome!  I’d like to give you a quick sense of why this blog exists, why you might want to subscribe to it, or to add it to your RSS reader, and how to get the most from it. I’ve been thinking recently about this blog [...]

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Recession and the Crisis of IT Employee Engagement

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve been recently working on a multi-company research project on Managing IT in Recessionary Times.  In support of that project, I have taken advantage of every CIO conversation I’ve had lately (probably at least one such conversation per day for the last month or so) to ask about how this recession is impacting their company [...]

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