Posted on July 8, 2010 by itorganization2017
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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Posted on April 26, 2010 by itorganization2017
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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Posted on April 6, 2010 by itorganization2017
I had a very interesting and exciting week! I was a speaker at an nGenera Senior Executive Summit, which drew about 60 top executives from mostly large companies – CEO’s, CIO’s, CFO’s, HR and shared service heads, and even a couple of Lawyers and Platform/Brand managers. It was an auspicious group – both in terms [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2010 by itorganization2017
In Part 1 of this series, I suggested that the implications of Enterprise 2.0 for the IT organization are dramatic. I also suggested that the ways of designing and executing an IT Operating Model in a Web 2.0 context are quite different from traditional approaches. In Part 2, I outlined the major elements of an [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2010 by itorganization2017
Elements of an IT Operating Model This is the second part of my series on IT Operating Models for Enterprise 2.0 (for the introduction, please see here.) In Part 1, I explored the question, “Why Does Enterprise 2.0 Demand a New IT Operating Model?” I posited three key answers: The types of IT products and [...]
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Posted on June 11, 2009 by itorganization2017
I’ve been posting on and off about Cloud Computing since I began this blog a couple of years ago. But, as one who spends most of his time with IT leaders of large global enterprises, sometimes the promise of the Cloud seems more like a mirage! I’ve Looked At Clouds From Both Sides Now Back [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by itorganization2017
Dion Hinchcliffe had a superb post on Determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0. The post cites several authoritative and useful sources on the subject. It also hypothesizes several reasons for the mostly “wait and see” attitude currently taken by most IT leaders and business managers. But I mainly want to focus on the business case [...]
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Posted on April 13, 2009 by itorganization2017
I’ve had this IT funding fantasy for years (I know, it’s really sad that my more exciting fantasies are to do with IT funding scenarios!) Supposing the CIO had to do a fund drive every year or every six months the way our local National Public Radio stations had to operate in order to fund [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2009 by itorganization2017
I’ve been working with a couple of clients around PMO’s and the thorny space of Portfolio and Program Management. Not coincidentally, this continues to prove to be an area of great leverage for organizations trying to drive up their business-IT maturity (and with that, increase the business value delivered through IT investments, assets and capabilities.) [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2009 by itorganization2017
OK – so I’m climbing on the latest news headlines – forgive me, but I do see an analogy that is important for IT leaders to be aware of. Current business conditions mean this is a great time for CIO’s to clean up their back yards, and aggressively “kick the IT legacy problem in the [...]
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