A recent client experience reminded me how IT leaders in lower maturity shops love to show off their extensive project lists – it’s almost like a badge of courage! The bigger the list, the better! It’s as if, “The busier we are, the more we are doing for the business.” I’ve found over the years [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, IS Management, IT Management, IT Maturity, Portfolio Management | Tagged: prioritization, program management, project management | 1 Comment »
Just as a lot of CIO’s were gearing up for a year or two of growth and innovation, many are now being told to “hunker down” for a period of austerity. The usual first victims – cut travel, cut training, cut anything that smells like overhead! That Enterprise Architecture initiative that was starting to pay off? [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, Demand Maturity, IT Management, IT Maturity, Portfolio Management | Tagged: Business-IT Maturity, SaaS, SOA, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
Back in mid-December, I posted “You Know You’ve Reached Level 3 When…“ As the BSG Alliance multi-company research project that has been examining Reaching Level 3 Business-IT Maturity shifts gears from its research to its reporting phase, I want to revisit that headline. Here are some ‘one-liners’ that are being discussed in today’s WebEx [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, Demand Maturity, IT Management, IT Maturity, Portfolio Management | Tagged: business governance, business portfolio, business strategy, Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, IT governance, IT portfolio, IT relationship manager, IT strategy | 2 Comments »
I’m going to continue on this theme of “Unwritten Rules” as a powerful way to understand what drives behavior, and with that understanding, be able to change the rules, and thereby change behavior. Yesterday, I posted on the Unwritten Rules that are common to organizations where Program Management is practiced versus those where Project [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, Change Management, IT Management, Portfolio Management | Tagged: IT portfolio management, Service Management, unwritten rules | Leave a Comment »
Among the most popular posts on this blog is that of October 15 on Project vs. Program vs. Portfolio Management. Less popular (but give it time…) have been my posts of the last couple of days on Unwritten Rules of Business-IT Maturity. I want to use the latter to illustrate the former, and some of [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, Change Management, IT Management, IT Maturity, Portfolio Management | Tagged: Portfolio Management, program management, project management, unwritten rules | 2 Comments »
My post Project vs. Program vs. Portfolio back on October 15, 2007, continues to be the most popular post on my blog, day after day. Given that, I feel compelled to drill down further into this topic. Today, I will address IT Portfolio Management, which is at the heart and soulof leveraging IT for [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, IT Infrastructure, IT Management, IT Maturity, Portfolio Management, Supply Maturity | Tagged: business value, Portfolio Management, risk/reward profile | Leave a Comment »
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