“Branding” Your IT Organization

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

I love this post on Attraction of Identity from my kindred spirit, Russ Aebig. (And not just because he references my work on Business-IT Maturity!)   Russ poses the question: As an organization, who are you? What is your internal and external story?” Russ goes on to say: IT organizations typically are not oriented around branding [...]

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Avatar – Blending “Hi Tech/Hi Touch”

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

Way back in 1982, futurist John Naisbitt authored the fascinating book Megatrends.  I especially recall my reaction to one of the trends – High tech, high touch – and the need to balance between technology and human interaction.  I recently caught a small segment on television about the making of Avatar.  (There’s lots of interesting [...]

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Lessons in Listening: Superior Performance Demands Great Listening!

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

One of the ‘gifts’ I’m enjoying in my semi-retirement is more time pursuing my musical hobbies – including performing with local musicians and friends.  That creative outlet reinforces for me, at the deepest level, how much good musical performance demands intense listening.  This is so relevant to my ‘professional’ world of IT management consulting for [...]

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Exploring an IT Operating Model for Enterprise 2.0 – Part 4: IT Governance

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

In Part 1 of this series, I suggested that the implications of Enterprise 2.0 for the IT organization are dramatic.  I also suggested that the ways of designing and executing an IT Operating Model in a Web 2.0 context are quite different from traditional approaches.  In Part 2, I outlined the major elements of an [...]

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Mobility, Shmobility… Why Should I Care?

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

Thanks to friend and co-blogger Russ Aebig for pointing me to this great post by Joshua-Michéle Ross on his excellent Opposable Planets blog. In his post, Ross points out that devices such as iPhones are, location-aware (GPS), motion-aware (accelerometer), directionally aware (compass) visually aware (camera that can gather visual input of the immediate environment), sonically [...]

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Exploring an IT Operating Model for Enterprise 2.0 – Part 3: Process Management

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

In Part 1 of this series, I suggested that the implications of Enterprise 2.0 for the IT organization are dramatic.  I also suggested that the ways of designing and executing an IT Operating Model in a Web 2.0 context are quite different from traditional approaches.  In Part 2, I outlined the major elements of an [...]

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Exploring an IT Operating Model for Enterprise 2.0 – Part 2

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

Elements of an IT Operating Model This is the second part of my series on IT Operating Models for Enterprise 2.0 (for the introduction, please see here.)  In Part 1, I explored the question, “Why Does Enterprise 2.0 Demand a New IT Operating Model?”  I posited three key answers: The types of IT products and [...]

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