The Live 3rd Rail! Recently, a colleague said to me about a client, “It’s time to raise the subject of their IT funding model. The current model is causing all sorts of dysfunctional behaviors!” My response was, “You are right – but I really don’t want to go there just yet. I don’t think they’re [...]
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Just about everyone has become attuned over the last few years to the concept of sustainability. Except, it seems, when it comes to software practices. In most IT environments, by far the largest chunk of costs associated with a given piece of software, surface after it is initially delivered. That is true of purchased packages, [...]
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Regular readers will know that from time to time I refer to research by Peter Weill, Chairman & Senior Research Scientist, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. I’ve had the privilege of knowing Dr. Weill for many years, and having collaborated with him on several multi-company research initiatives. [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, Demand Maturity, IT Infrastructure, IT Management, IT Maturity, Key Frameworks, Portfolio Management | Tagged: Business-IT Maturity, Enterprise Architecture, IT funding, IT governance, MIT Sloan School of Management, Portfolio Management, value realization | 9 Comments »
I’ve had this IT funding fantasy for years (I know, it’s really sad that my more exciting fantasies are to do with IT funding scenarios!) Supposing the CIO had to do a fund drive every year or every six months the way our local National Public Radio stations had to operate in order to fund [...]
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Another common sticking point that shows up in IT funding approaches in Level 2is the “stealth infrastructure” trap. The logic (or illogic!) behind this is, “The business does not understand all this infrastructure stuff (or plug in your enterprise-wide IT improvement initiative du jour – e.g., SOA, Enterprise Architecture) so we will squirrel away funds [...]
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