It’s becoming increasingly important for IT organizations to be adept at rapidly and easily incorporating new technologies and methods in to the way the IT organization operates. Given that many of the emerging technologies that are marketed based upon their claimed ‘speed to value’ are available directly to the business without the apparent need of [...]
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Thanks to my colleague Roy Youngman for suggesting the theme of this (very short) post when we were comparing notes on past consulting clients. Our discussion was about why some are so satisfying to work with while others can be so frustrating. By the way, as I write this I am well aware of the [...]
Filed under: IS Management, IT Management, IT Maturity | Tagged: IT Maturity, Leadership | 1 Comment »
Yes – I can connect the unlikely subjects in this blog’s title. But bear with me a few sentences to set the context. I recently posted on my time in Portland, Oregon, and my love for the city. I also mentioned the anomalous ‘street people’ scene. Portland is so squeaky clean and seemingly well-run, and [...]
Filed under: Change Management, IS Management, IT Management, IT Maturity | Tagged: Business-IT Maturity, IT leadership, IT Maturity, IT transformation | Leave a Comment »
I’ve posted quite frequently on this blog about the role of the Business-IT Relationship Manager. It’s a key role – crucial, in fact, at mid-levels of Business-IT maturity. It’s a role that typically does not work well at lower maturity, yet is essential to reaching higher maturity. It’s also a role that is hard to [...]
Filed under: Demand Maturity, IT Management, IT Maturity | Tagged: Architecture, business-IT convergence, Business-IT Maturity Model, Demand Maturity, Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, reaching level 3, Relationship Management | Leave a Comment »
From Portland Street Music… I wrote in a previous post about Portland when I was part way through my stay. Now I’m just about finished here any my love for this place is as strong as ever! Last time, I mentioned the Portland street people – with their crazy hair do’s, facial hair to match [...]
Filed under: General | Tagged: Columbia River Gorge, Downtown Portland, Food cart, International Rose Test Garden, Portland Monthly, Portland Oregon | Leave a Comment »
One of my ambitions in moving to “semi-retirement” a year ago was having the freedom to pick my consulting clients and to mitigate the horrendous challenge of virtually non-stop air travel. I used to wear my 5 million frequent flier miles as a ‘badge of courage’ until I realized how unbearable air travel had become [...]
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