Some Consulting Principles to Live By…

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

The CEO of a firm I am affiliated with recently asked me what were my 3 top “principles of consulting.”   He was updating the firm’s web site, and thought this would be a useful addition to my profile. It was an interesting question in that during some 30+ years of management consulting, I had never [...]

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Do You Approach Strategy Formulation as an Event or a Continuous Process?

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

I find that most strategy efforts aren’t very strategic.  Nor do they have much real impact, or lead to significant change. The Problems with Traditional Strategy Formulation Approaches I think the supporting evidence for my findings lies in the fact that most companies either: Don’t undertake strategy formulation initiatives unless they feel they have to [...]

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The Realpolitik of Business-IT Convergence

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

For some reason, I get much more commentary about my posts via personal emails than by direct commentary.  There’s something I quite like about that – it feels more personal when someone takes the time to send an email about a post.  On the other hand, the emailed comments are often illuminating and deserve a [...]

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Do You Have IT Organizational Clarity – Part 4

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

This picks up on Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 in this series on IT Organizational Clarity. In Part 1, I discussed the importance of IT Organizational Clarity, the symptoms when clarity is compromised, and the challenges of trying to address those symptoms rather than the root causes that lead to compromised clarity.  Part [...]

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