Posted on July 8, 2010 by itorganization2017
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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Posted on June 30, 2010 by itorganization2017
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 [...]
Filed under: IT Maturity | Tagged: Next Generation Enterprise, Enterprise 2.0, IT infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Architecture, IT transformation, Web 2.0, organizational change management, business-IT convergence, IT governance, Cloud computing, Business-IT Governance, Business process | 5 Comments »
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 July 27, 2009 by itorganization2017
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: Portfolio Management, Enterprise Architecture, Business-IT Maturity, IT funding, value realization, IT governance, MIT Sloan School of Management | 9 Comments »
Posted on April 6, 2009 by itorganization2017
I’ve been working with a couple of clients around PMO’s and the thorny space of Portfolio and Program Management. Not coincidentally, this continues to prove to be an area of great leverage for organizations trying to drive up their business-IT maturity (and with that, increase the business value delivered through IT investments, assets and capabilities.) [...]
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Posted on March 6, 2009 by itorganization2017
I just received a comment on an old post, Project vs. Program vs. Portfolio Management. This has been a popular post since it was written back in October 2007. The comment read: I’m doing a research on how do organizations group their projects into programs, please tell me how do they go about doing that. [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, Change Management, IT Management, Portfolio Management | Tagged: business outcomes, business value, Business-IT Governance, IT governance, Portfolio Management, program management, project management | 3 Comments »
Posted on February 11, 2009 by itorganization2017
I’ve posted before that realizing value from IT-enabled business investments requires both a partnership between IT and the business (duh!), but also a partnership between the CIO and CFO. This can provide the credibility and linkages necessary to ensure that meaningful metrics are defined and tracked, and that accountabilities, both for costs and value, are [...]
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Posted on February 2, 2009 by itorganization2017
How should you treat IT infrastructure investments in a recession? I was listening to an interesting piece that got me thinking about this question on NPR this morning titled “Obama’s ‘Big Fix,’ And Investment Deficit Disorder.” Renee Montagne interviewed New York Times columnist David Leonhardt about his January 27 article, “The Big Fix.“ Determining IT Infrastructure [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by itorganization2017
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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Posted on January 19, 2009 by itorganization2017
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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