Can Social Media Significantly Improve the Ways IT Work is Performed?

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

It’s been a while since I posted to this blog.  My excuse, if one is needed, is that I started a new business venture earlier this year.  Unfortunately, shortly after incorporating the company, I was admitted to hospital for quintuple heart bypass surgery!  I’m pleased to say that while I’m more than fully recovered from [...]

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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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Leveraging the Cloud to Accelerate IT Renewal

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

(Note:  This post was originally written for the Cloud Commons). This is the first in a multi-part post on what I’m referring to as “IT Renewal.”  Some people call this “IT Transformation” or “IT Transition”. Others don’t name it – they just do it as a natural part of how they run and continuously improve [...]

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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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Threats and Opportunities in the Cloud – Coming to a City Near You!

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve posted before about Cloud Computing and I am delighted to let you know that I have been invited to speak to this topic at an upcoming CIO Forum Series sponsored by Pariveda Solutions and Microsoft Windows Azure. I believe that there is an inevitability to the Cloud as a new way to deliver capability [...]

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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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Account Teams and Business-IT Relationship Management

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve posted quite frequently on this blog about the role of the Business-IT Relationship Manager. It’s a key role – crucial, in fact, at mid-levels of Business-IT maturity.  It’s a role that typically does not work well at lower maturity, yet is essential to reaching higher maturity. It’s also a role that is hard to [...]

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From Business-IT Alignment to Business-IT Convergence

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve posted before on the emergent confluence between business and IT.  I’ve also discussed the shift from Business-IT Alignment to Business-IT Convergence as an aspect of increasing business and IT maturity.  I’ve noted (Goodbye, Shadow IT – Hello, Shadow IT) that ‘Shadow IT’, often viewed as a problem to be solved might be more appropriately [...]

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IT Organizational Implications of Cloud Computing

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

First off, let me make myself clear.  I firmly believe that Cloud Computing, in its various forms, is real, absolutely inevitable and will completely revolutionize the form and role of the IT Organization.  Some readers will look at that sentence and laugh – it’s like saying “day will pass into night.”  Obvious, beyond dispute, devoid [...]

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Collaboration – Finding a New IT Order in the Chaos!

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

IT organizations are complex beasts – both in terms of the number of moving parts with their many subtle relationships and in the more scientific use of the term – as in complex systems theory. Mastering 3 Fundamentally Different Value Propositions IT Organizations have to deliver day-in, day-out on three very different value propositions: Operational [...]

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