COBIT – Good News… Bad News!

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

COBIT is described by its creators, ISACA, as a “Framework for IT Governance and Control.”  Celebrating it’s 15-year anniversary, COBIT provides an excellent framework for helping bring IT under control.  In ISACA’s own words: COBIT is an IT governance framework and supporting toolset that allows managers to bridge the gap between control requirements, technical issues [...]

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Leveraging the Cloud to Accelerate IT Renewal – Part 3

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

This is the third and final part in a three-part post on how Cloud Computing can provide a fast path to “IT Renewal.” What is IT Renewal? In the first post in this series, I discussed how information and technology are becoming ever more central to what an organization does and how it does it [...]

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The Decline and Fall of the IT Organization?

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

With apologies to Ed Yourdon for my plagiarism of his original the book title, published back in 1993, “The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer“.  (Though I don’t recall if Ed gave apologies to Gibbon for first using this line!) For a blog entitled “IT Organization 2017″ and for a management consultant who has [...]

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Three Ways To Increase IT Organizational Agility

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

Back in a September 2010 post, I asked, “How Agile Is Your IT Organization?  How Would You Know?“  The question came about as part of a research project I’m involved in through my affiliation with Formicio.  The aim of the research is to identify the factors that make IT organizations agile and recommend how agility [...]

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Do You Have IT Organizational Clarity – Part 3

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

This picks up on Part 1 and Part 2 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 1 closed [...]

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Do You Have IT Organizational Clarity – Part 2

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

My previous post introduced the topic of IT Organizational Clarity, discussed common symptoms arising from a lack of Organizational Clarity, and suggested two dimensions through which clarity can be assessed and improved: Bounding scope by defining “IT Capabilities” at an appropriate level of granularity. (Units of analysis). Defining meaningful and assessable characteristics for IT Capabilities. [...]

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Do You Have IT Organizational Clarity?

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

This is the first in a series of posts on the subject of IT Organizational Clarity.  The general concept of  Organizational Clarity is clearly laid out in Patrick Lencioni‘s wonderful leadership fable, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. I believe that Organizational Clarity is particularly important for IT leaders today as IT management and [...]

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Unsure of Yourself? – Debate the Trivial!

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

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 [...]

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Portland’s Street People and Well-Managed IT Organizations

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

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 [...]

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Simple Processes

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I just came across a new blog called Simple Processes, and I’m sufficiently impressed to add it to my Google Reader, to my blog roll, and to use this post to point my readers to it.  In his current post, Glenn Remoreras discusses the achievement of the highest level of process culture maturity.  This is [...]

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