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 [...]
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A few days ago I posted about a client situation where the CIO had a strong sense of the possibilities and impact that Web 2.0 could have for his organization and the firm as a whole, but the small team he appointed to figure out the specifics quickly fell back on their traditional (and very well-honed) IT competencies. [...]
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One of the themes I’ve come back to from time to time is the notion of “sticking points” – i.e., in the context of business-IT maturity, things that you have to do to get from one level to the next, that if you keep doing them, will actually prevent you from getting to the next [...]
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I liked this post by Navi Radjou on “Why Indian CIOs Excel at Driving Business Innovation“. Navi suggests two reasons for this proclivity for IT-driven innovation: 1. Indian CIOs are obsessed with IT/business alignment. 2. Indian CIOs are effective at orchestrating innovation networks. While I don’t disagree with these factors, the research we recently completed [...]
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Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ, March 18, 2008, Business Technology page) published an interesting article, “Pleasing Google’s Tech-Savvy Staff.” WSJ interviewed Google’s impressive CIO Douglas Merrill on “How do you run the IT department at a company whose employees are considered among the world’s most tech-savvy?” I liked the piece for a couple of reasons. [...]
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I posted from time-to-time on what I’ve called “sticking points” – how things that you had to do (e.g., practices, processes) to get from Level 1 Business-IT Maturity to Level 2 could trap you in Level 2 if you did not modify them, or in some cases, dispense with them entirely! It’s not that they [...]
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I’ve been talking lately to CIO’s about Business-IT Maturity as part of the Reaching Level 3 multi-company research I am leading. A recurring theme has come up enough times for me to believe it’s not an aberration. Several CIO’s have said to me something along the lines of, “We have several major business partners (providers [...]
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