Changing the Culture of an IT Organization – One Wiki Page at a Time!

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve been a student of IT organizational culture since I began my management consulting career some 30+ years ago.  It’s wrong, of course, to generalize too broadly, but I’ve worked with literally hundreds of large enterprise IT organizations (i.e., IT organizations of 250+ members) and have seen more commonalities than differences.  Of course, within any [...]

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More Hurdles in the Shift from Documents to Wikis

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

Last week, I posted about The Painful But Rewarding Shift from Documents to Wikis.  In the post I shared some of the lessons my partner and I have learned from our experiences helping IT organizations shift to a Wiki approach for creating organizational clarity and getting people in the organization to engage in continuous improvement.  [...]

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The Painful But Rewarding Shift from Documents to Wikis

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

I posted recently on the question, Can Social Media Significantly Improve the Ways IT Work Is Performed?  The post began to share some of the lessons learned as I continue to work with IT organizations that are pushing into the “social media” age and using tools such as Wikis and Social Networking to drive IT [...]

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