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 [...]
Filed under: General, IT Management, Next Generation Enterprise, Next Generation IT, Web 2.0, social networking | Tagged: Enterprise 2.0, IT transformation, social networking, Web 2.0, business value, IT innovation, Design Thinking, innovation, Cloud computing, Tammy Erickson, Add new tag, Don Tapscott, nGenera Corporation | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 25, 2010 by itorganization2017
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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Posted on March 9, 2010 by itorganization2017
About 3 years ago I first become aware of what can best be called a ‘movement’ dedicated to “Design Thinking,” when the term started showing up in some of my favorite blogs (e.g., Idris Mootee’s Innovation Playground). The concepts became clearer and more compelling to me in June, 2008 when the Harvard Business Review published [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, IT Management, Next Generation Enterprise, Next Generation IT, Web 2.0, social networking | Tagged: Enterprise 2.0, IT infrastructure, IT Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Architecture, IT leadership, collaboration, Web 2.0, business value, IT innovation, innovation, IT governance, Add new tag, Business-IT Governance, COBIT, Information technology, Operating model | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 5, 2009 by itorganization2017
This post picks up on Parts 1, 2 and 3 and examines the third of Deming’s 14 Management Points, which urges: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.” This is one of the fundamental issues in [...]
Filed under: IT Maturity | Tagged: Next Generation Enterprise, Business-IT Maturity, IT leadership, Customer experience, Design Thinking, innovation, Quality assurance, Industrial Revolution, Quality management, W. Edwards Deming | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 10, 2009 by itorganization2017
I’ve been thinking about a couple of things my CIO clients are wrestling with, and how these might be better approached jointly rather than as separate challenges. These are: How to strengthen Business-IT Relationships in the context of the current economic climate. How to experiment with, learn from and foster Social Networking in the business [...]
Filed under: Change Management, Customer experience, IT Maturity, Next Generation Enterprise, Next Generation IT, Web 2.0, social networking | Tagged: collaboration, Customer experience, Enterprise 2.0, innovation, IT and recession, recession, Relationship Management, social networking, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 25, 2008 by itorganization2017
Like most of us, I’ve been thinking about the current economic climate and its implications for IT leaders. I posted back in early September in The Economy, Information Technology and Opportunity Creation that it is now more important than ever to find creative and constructive ways to drive growth and innovation by whatever means. I’ve [...]
Filed under: IT Infrastructure, IT Management, Supply Maturity, Web 2.0 | Tagged: innovation, IT and recession, recession | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 11, 2008 by itorganization2017
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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Posted on September 8, 2008 by itorganization2017
I realize it might be somewhat outré (and very circular!) to reference a post that is referencing one of my own posts, but I’m going to do that. Espen Andersen picked up my post The New IT Role: From Problem Solving to Opportunity Creation and made some important expansions on the inherent ideas, in his [...]
Filed under: IT Management, IT Maturity, Next Generation IT, Web 2.0 | Tagged: CIO role, innovation, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »
