Changing – or Being Changed? An Important Distinction!

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

Elliot Ross and his always insightful blog about Strategic Technology for the Small to Medium Enterprise just posted on “ITIL, Value and Culture.” I like Elliot’s blog because of his “small to medium enterprise” perspective – I find it an interesting balance against the large companies I typically work with. I felt the need to [...]

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The Accidental Project Manager

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

Some IT organizations invest a great deal in the processes and disciplines of Project Management.  As well they should – much of an IT Organization’s work is performed through projects. Various approaches are deployed to bring consistency and effectiveness to Project Management disciplines – Centers of Excellence (CoE), Project (and Program and Portfolio) Management Offices [...]

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Do You Approach Strategy Formulation as an Event or a Continuous Process?

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

I find that most strategy efforts aren’t very strategic.  Nor do they have much real impact, or lead to significant change. The Problems with Traditional Strategy Formulation Approaches I think the supporting evidence for my findings lies in the fact that most companies either: Don’t undertake strategy formulation initiatives unless they feel they have to [...]

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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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Back From My Sabbatical – with Lessons from Rock ‘n’ Roll!

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’m pretty sure nobody noticed the fact that I was ‘off the air’ for about a month.  And I’m certain that nobody cared!  But I did feel guilty, and missed the satisfaction I get from blogging and from engagement with those that leave thoughtful comments or challenge my thinking. By way of explanation, I took [...]

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Crowdsourcing Organizational Change: A Collaborative Approach to Leading Change

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

In the first post in this series, I provided some brief context for ‘change leadership’ (a term I find more apt than ‘change management.’)  I also introduced a caveat about linear, sequential, ‘programmatic’ change methodologies and briefly discussed the emergence over the last 15 years or so, of a more organic and emergent view of [...]

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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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Lessons in Listening: Superior Performance Demands Great Listening!

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

One of the ‘gifts’ I’m enjoying in my semi-retirement is more time pursuing my musical hobbies – including performing with local musicians and friends.  That creative outlet reinforces for me, at the deepest level, how much good musical performance demands intense listening.  This is so relevant to my ‘professional’ world of IT management consulting for [...]

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Exploring an IT Operating Model for Enterprise 2.0 – Part 4: IT Governance

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

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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Exploring an IT Operating Model for Enterprise 2.0 – Part 2

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

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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