The IT Infrastructure Investment Deficit Disorder

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

How should you treat IT infrastructure investments in a recession?  I was listening to an interesting piece that got me thinking about this question on NPR this morning titled “Obama’s ‘Big Fix,’ And Investment Deficit Disorder.” Renee Montagne interviewed New York Times columnist David Leonhardt about his January 27 article, “The Big Fix.“ Determining IT Infrastructure [...]

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Business-IT Alignment As Simple Rules

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

Back in 2001, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Donald N. Sull published a Harvard Business Review paper called “Strategy as Simple Rules.“   This was a great paper that spoke to the need for a few straightforward, hard-and-fast rules that define direction without confining it.  It resonated strongly with my colleagues and I as the term “simple [...]

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You’ve Got Information Technology Questions? We Have Answers…

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

As an IT professional or IT leader, do you find yourself with questions or issues you’d like to get opinions about?  Of course you do.  As a consultant, researcher, educator and author, I get questions all the time.  For me they are my oxygen.  If the questions ever stopped, well, I frankly don’t know what [...]

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Platform Thinking

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

Idris Mootee’s excellent blog, Innovation Playground posted on “What’s the Difference Between Platform Strategy vs. Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy?”  This is a great post, and a opens up a huge area for analysis, speculation and discussion around platform thinking.  Platform thinking emerged as an important dimension in our recent Reaching Level 3 Multi-company research.  [...]

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The IT Organization c2017 – Part 3

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

Continuing on this track, and again looking through the lens of the emerging Next Generation Enterprise (or Enterprise 2.0 if you prefer) one common theme that keeps surfacing is that of “on demand.”  This idea gets interpreted in many different ways, and even purloined as a marketing label, the notion of being able to access [...]

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Enterprise Architecture, SOA and Service Management

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

I think the dependencies between EA and SOA are just now really being understood.  I’ve recently been involved in a multi-company research project on the Business Implications of SOA.   Based upon that research, and what I see in the IT shops I get to work with over the years, I believe a strong EA capability and [...]

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