Innovation and Web 2.0 – A Compelling Relationship?

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

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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Design Thinking 2.0: Enabling Innovation with Web 2.0 – Part 3

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

In the first part of this series I examined the case for, and some of the key aspects of Design Thinking.   In Part 2 of this series, I distinguished between “Core” and “Edge” Capabilities and made the point that Design Thinking typically is heavy on Edge capabilities, whereas most businesses, and certainly, most corporate [...]

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Design Thinking 2.0: Enabling Innovation with Web 2.0 – Part 2

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

In my first post in this series, “Design Thinking 2.0: How Web 2.0 Might Foster and Enable an Innovation Revolution” I summarized the concepts of Design Thinking and raised the question of how Web 2.0 might enable increased innovation.  (For an interesting perspective on Design Thinking by Business Week’s Bruce Nussbaum, see his excellent essay [...]

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Exploring an IT Operating Model for Enterprise 2.0

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

First, in the interests of full disclosure, the title for this blog was inspired the excellent blog, Wierarchy, and its latest post on Exploring the HR Management Framework for Enterprise 2.0. Note, I have changed the title from “an” to “the”  as I feel there are multiple possible management frameworks for IT, and from “Management [...]

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IT’s Top 10 Interests – Why the Perennial Oldies?

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I was perusing the September 15 issue of CIO Magazine (ok, I’d been on vacation for nearly 4 weeks, and was catching up on my massive reading pile!) when I noticed the chart recreated to the left.  (Note:  I could not find the chart in the electronic edition – only the paper magazine.  Also note, [...]

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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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An Operating System for a Web-based World?

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

Considering that the general domain for this blog, as its name implies, is the evolution of the enterprise IT organization towards the year 2017 (10 years from when I started this blog), Google‘s announcement of its planned Chrome OS is, I believe, a very big deal – or, at least, will prove to be over [...]

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I Must Have my Head in the Clouds!

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

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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Why IT Professionals Will Need to be Enterprise Architects

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I actually credit the topic of this post to a quote by a client last week.  We were working with him on the PMO he was setting up, when he made the point in the headline.  I thought it was provocative, and made an important point, so I want to explore it. What Is Meant [...]

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Why the Notion of the IT Organization is Deeply Flawed!

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

It’s time to fully acknowledge what I first recognized back in 1980 when I read Alvin Toffler’s remarkable book, The Third Wave.  In that book, Toffler pointed out that the differentiation of production and consumption is not the natural order of things.  Separation of production from consumption was necessary to fuel the industrial age (which [...]

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