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a reply to Business-IT Confluence
by Herman Rank_explorer

on Feb 27, 2008 - 03:30 PM read 101 times

While I'm sure some of the basis for your theory of Level 3 Business-IT Maturity stems from the theories forwarded by the BTM Institute (or some common ancestor there-of), I thought it was worth mentioning this organization and some of their work in the context of your research. (My apologies if earlier conversations already discussed this group.) The group's seminal work, Winning the Three-Legged Race, (November 2005) proposes that symbiotic relationships of technology to business can be divided into three categories: Alignment, Synchronization and Convergence. They illustrate these categories as seen below.

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Interestingly, the same group later published another book, Six Billion Minds, which explores management challenges and opportunities in the face of a truly global community. Many of the themes in this book dovetail nicely with the concepts of collaboration in a 2.0 world.

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Source of Business-IT Maturity Model

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by Vaughan Merlyn on Feb 28, 2008 - 08:26 AM read 89 times

Actually, to set the record straight, the source for the 3-level Business-IT Maturity Model was not the BTM Insitute (or some common ancestor thereof) as you suggest, but a multi-year, longitudinal multi-company research program I led at Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation about 15 years ago. This work, in turn, was inspired by Richard Nolan's Stage Theory first posited in 1974.

In any case, my point was that while many of us have talked for some years about business-IT convergence, I suggest that a term introduced by a client this week - confluence - may be more apt.

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Re: Setting the record straight

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by Herman Rank_explorer

on Feb 28, 2008 - 09:06 AM read 96 times

Thanks for the clarification -- I certainly did not intend to steal credit from your work. Rather, some may find additional collaboration/inspiration from the set of contributors on the BTM book. (below)

And yes, the term "confluence" may be quite apt (the connotation of a "happy confluence" suggests the influence of external forces upon the business landscape - helping to shape the interaction of business and IT; as opposed to the convergence, which suggests a concerted conscious effort by both disciplines- without regard to external factors).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0131877267/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-4618399-3829667#reader-link

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