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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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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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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Are Your Processes Setting You Free? Or Holding You Back?

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

Early in this blog’s life, I posted quite a bit on ‘sticking points‘ that IT organizations find about mid-way through the journey to high Business-IT Maturity.  Process discipline can be one of the quintessential such sticking points.  Process management can get you out of the mess of Low business-IT maturity to a mid-level, but simply [...]

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Four Common Mistakes in IT Portfolio Management

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

Among my most popular topics, week after week, is Portfolio Management.  It’s a key discipline, especially crucial in driving Business-IT Maturity past the tricky mid-point where many IT organizations tend to get stuck. IT Business Edge has just published a short slideshow on “Four Common Mistakes in IT Portfolio Management“, re-purposing a post of mine [...]

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Business-IT Alignment – The Relationship Dimension

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

Much has been written about “Business-IT Alignment” over the years.  Alignment can refer to Strategy – the degree to which IT strategy and business strategy are aligned.  (This, of course, is both ‘old news’ and yet often not the case in practice.  And there’s one school of thought that says there’s no such thing as [...]

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“Branding” Your IT Organization

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

I love this post on Attraction of Identity from my kindred spirit, Russ Aebig. (And not just because he references my work on Business-IT Maturity!)   Russ poses the question: As an organization, who are you? What is your internal and external story?” Russ goes on to say: IT organizations typically are not oriented around branding [...]

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Deming’s 14 Points Revisited: Part 4

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

This post picks up on Parts 1, 2 and 3 and examines the third of Deming’s 14 Management Points, which urges: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.” This is one of the fundamental issues in [...]

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