COBIT – Good News… Bad News!

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

COBIT is described by its creators, ISACA, as a “Framework for IT Governance and Control.”  Celebrating it’s 15-year anniversary, COBIT provides an excellent framework for helping bring IT under control.  In ISACA’s own words: COBIT is an IT governance framework and supporting toolset that allows managers to bridge the gap between control requirements, technical issues [...]

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Account Teams and Business-IT Relationship Management

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve posted quite frequently on this blog about the role of the Business-IT Relationship Manager. It’s a key role – crucial, in fact, at mid-levels of Business-IT maturity.  It’s a role that typically does not work well at lower maturity, yet is essential to reaching higher maturity. It’s also a role that is hard to [...]

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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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Increasing Business Value Through Demand Shaping

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

A key role for IT leaders, especially during recessionary times, is Demand Shaping.   A perennial reality in the business-IT world is that demand seems to exceed supply. Of Backlogs and Early Cloud Computing When I entered the field of IT back in the 1960′s, the term “backlog” was pervasive – that huge list of requests [...]

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Getting Control Over Business Demand – How to “Just Say No!”

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

Did you ever feel that some of the things you are asked to do by your business partners just don’t make sense?  That they won’t deliver value that truly justifies their cost?  I find this to be a common issue.  And it’s not just the questionable value associated with some of these requests. Low value [...]

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Why IT Might be Slow to the Web 2.0 Collaboration/Innovation Party

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

Lately I’ve been spending time with several IT teams from global Fortune 500 enterprises who are charged with fostering collaboration, innovation and the other hoped-for outcomes of Web 2.0.  It’s been a fascinating experience – plenty of good news, but some aspects I find frustrating.  More importantly, I believe these are things that are slowing [...]

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IT Pros – What Will Become of Them?

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

Ben Worthen had a great post last week in the WSJ Business Technology blog entitled “Tech Pros: The Next Dinosaurs?”  Ben cites Nucleus Research’s Rebecca Wettemann: It’s the logical consequence of two interrelated trends: the average worker becoming more tech savvy, and tech companies realizing that appealing directly to workers is as – if not [...]

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So, What Comes After Level 3 Business-IT Maturity?

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

I had a question from a colleague recently that I’d like to address in this post.  She asked, “I’m going to ask a possibly ‘dumb’ question, but since I believe that there are no dumb questions I’m asking it anyway…  Since level 3 is constantly evolving i.e., today’s Level 3 will be tomorrow’s Level 2 [...]

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Reaching Level 3: The Mindset Factor

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve posted before on the role of ambition as a key factor in driving business-IT maturity.  I want to move beyond that and pick up the theme of mindset.  This is a topic I covered in today’s teleconference as part of our multi-client research project into business-IT maturity. According to Wikipedia, Mindset refers to the [...]

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Podcast on Business-IT Maturity Model

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

  I’m very proud that Tom Parish, host and audio producer for the excellent Enterprise Leadership web site, invited me to deliver a podcast on the Business-IT Maturity model.  Just click on the blue link above my photo, or right-click to download the mp3 file. It was a great deal of fun to do – [...]

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