Influcencing Change In Your IT Operating Model

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

My last post, “Business-IT alignment – The Relationship Dimension” drew some interesting and even passionate commentary.  In particular, one frustrated commenter (someone in a Relationship Management role) pleaded, “What should I do? How can I influence to bring the necessary changes?” I’ve posted numerous times on aspects of Organizational Change Management (see link for examples) [...]

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Business-IT Alignment – The Relationship Dimension

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

Much has been written about “Business-IT Alignment” over the years.  Alignment can refer to Strategy – the degree to which IT strategy and business strategy are aligned.  (This, of course, is both ‘old news’ and yet often not the case in practice.  And there’s one school of thought that says there’s no such thing as [...]

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IT Leadership – Caught between Two Realities?

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

It’s always been tough being an IT leader.  The “Career Is Over” distortion of the CIO acronym is humorous because of the real world challenges associated with the CIO job.  I think that today is an especially challenging time for IT leaders.  I say that because these jobs are typically caught somewhere between two very [...]

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Innovation and Web 2.0 – A Compelling Relationship?

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

I had a very interesting and exciting week!  I was a speaker at an nGenera Senior Executive Summit, which drew about 60 top executives from mostly large companies – CEO’s, CIO’s, CFO’s, HR and shared service heads, and even a couple of Lawyers and Platform/Brand managers.  It was an auspicious group – both in terms [...]

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