Portfolio Management: So Much More Than a Collection of Projects!

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve posted recently about Program Management – mainly in response to a reader’s question about how to group projects into programs.  Her question, in turn, was in response to one of my most popular posts on the distinctions between Project, Program and Portfolio Management. IT Portfolio Management Matters! I’m delighted that my old post on [...]

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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 Know You’ve Reached Level 3 When…

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

  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 [...]

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The End of IT Strategy

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

I closed the last post by postulating that by 2017, IT strategy as a distinct entity with its own strategic planning process will be history.  Let me expand on that thought. In the early-90′s I had the privilege to be a partner in Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation, in Boston, involved in many [...]

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The IT Organization c2017 – Part 1

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Vaughan Merlyn

This blog has been active since mid-September, and thus far I’ve focused largely on a discussion of Business-IT maturity, and particularly on the so-called “sticking points” that seem common in mid-Level 2 – the halfway point between the earliest, tentative uses of large scale computing to support business processes and activities, and a nominal end-state, [...]

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