Changing the Culture of an IT Organization – One Wiki Page at a Time!

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve been a student of IT organizational culture since I began my management consulting career some 30+ years ago.  It’s wrong, of course, to generalize too broadly, but I’ve worked with literally hundreds of large enterprise IT organizations (i.e., IT organizations of 250+ members) and have seen more commonalities than differences.  Of course, within any [...]

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Why It’s Time to Re-Think IT Funding Models! – Part 1 of 3

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

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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The Decline and Fall of the IT Organization?

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

With apologies to Ed Yourdon for my plagiarism of his original the book title, published back in 1993, “The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer“.  (Though I don’t recall if Ed gave apologies to Gibbon for first using this line!) For a blog entitled “IT Organization 2017″ and for a management consultant who has [...]

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When Words Just Don’t Cause Change

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Vaughan Merlyn

I was in a heated ‘discussion’ with a client recently.  We had completed an IT strategy refresh and one of the outstanding items was to review their IT Principles.  The IT leadership team had come up with some candidate new Principles, and I was being asked if I thought they were appropriate. “What Will You [...]

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Do You Have IT Organizational Clarity – Part 3

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

This picks up on Part 1 and Part 2 in this series on IT Organizational Clarity. In Part 1, I discussed the importance of IT Organizational Clarity, the symptoms when clarity is compromised, and the challenges of trying to address those symptoms rather than the root causes that lead to compromised clarity.  Part 1 closed [...]

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From Business-IT Alignment to Business-IT Convergence

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve posted before on the emergent confluence between business and IT.  I’ve also discussed the shift from Business-IT Alignment to Business-IT Convergence as an aspect of increasing business and IT maturity.  I’ve noted (Goodbye, Shadow IT – Hello, Shadow IT) that ‘Shadow IT’, often viewed as a problem to be solved might be more appropriately [...]

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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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IT Organizational Implications of Cloud Computing

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Vaughan Merlyn

First off, let me make myself clear.  I firmly believe that Cloud Computing, in its various forms, is real, absolutely inevitable and will completely revolutionize the form and role of the IT Organization.  Some readers will look at that sentence and laugh – it’s like saying “day will pass into night.”  Obvious, beyond dispute, devoid [...]

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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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How “IT-Savvy” Is Your Company? Why Does That Matter?

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

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. [...]

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