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From Enterprise Architecture to Ecosystem Architecture
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jul 18, 2008 - 09:41 AM read 56 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=279I’ve been thinking about IT architecture - more correctly, Enterprise Architecture, and most recently, something I’m referring to as Ecosystem Architecture. This thinking was stimulated by some of the results of our recent Reaching Level 3 multi-company research project. That research showed that one of the most critical gaps in many companies IT capabilities is around Enterprise Architecture (EA). I don’t find this deficiency in Enterprise ... read more -
IT Infrastructure, Options, and Cost-Benefit Analysis
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jun 23, 2008 - 01:39 PM read 212 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=260There was a piece on National Public Radio this morning that got me thinking about IT infrastructure funding. I think this is especially relevant as companies consider Web 2.0 technologies and ask the inevitable question - “What’s the value proposition?” It’s a great question, unless that question gets morphed (as it so often does) into “What’s the return on investment?” The NPR article was about the levees along the Mississippi ... read more -
The Other Seat at the Table
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jun 19, 2008 - 10:49 AM read 533 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=258One of the great clichs of the business-IT relationship is “having a seat at the table.” This is a cute, shorthand way of describing a business-IT relationship where IT is properly represented in the strategic leadership of the business (be that a business unit or the enterprise). When we see this condition working well, we often observe characteristics such as: Business strategy formulation and IT strategy formulation are converged - ... read more -
Why Are Indian CIOs Good Innovators?
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jun 03, 2008 - 06:00 AM read 197 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=249I 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 on Reaching Level 3 Business-IT Maturity (Level 3 maturity correlates strongly ... read more -
Higher Internet Speeds and Media Convergence at Home
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jun 02, 2008 - 12:46 PM read 1959 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=246I don’t usually write about specific technologies or vendors, but I’m sufficiently excited by a recent development in my home and home-office set up, and by my experience with the vendor of the new service, that I think it’s worth a mention. First, some background. I travel a great deal, but when I’m not traveling, I’m typically working from my home office, so reliable, high speed Internet access ... read more -
Business Implications of SOA
by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 07, 2008 - 06:00 AM read 2385 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=219It’s time (perhaps even long overdue!) to tackle the thorny topic of Service Oriented Architecture. I’ve been preparing an executive presentation on this subject, drawing on one of our multi-company research projects, so it’s fresh in my mind. The research was focused on business implications of SOA, as this was a perspective and context that the research team found was missing from many of the early forays ... read more -
Managing IT Infrastructure vs. Platforms
by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 01, 2008 - 07:25 AM read 474 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=217Iwas in an interesting discussion with one of my consulting clients recently. I was with a group of IT managers responsible for their firm’s shared IT assets. This is a large, global enterprise that has been on an aggressive journey over the last 5 years to transform business-IT maturity. By any measure, they have been successful - rationalizing and consolidating a patchwork of data centers, networks, systems ... read more -
Goodby, Shadow IT - Hello, Shadow IT
by Vaughan Merlyn on Mar 07, 2008 - 05:00 AM read 1159 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=200In our multi-company research WebEx call earlier this week a participant reflected on the changing attitudes to “Shadow IT” - that term IT professionals give to non-IT professionals when they ’step into their IT professional turf’ and do stuff that should have been ‘better left to the professionals.’ The Shadow IT phenomenon is a great example of what I’ve referred to in the past as ’sticking points’ - ... read more -
Nicholas Carr on IT in 2018
by Vaughan Merlyn on Feb 25, 2008 - 05:00 AM read 1614 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=180Nicholas Carr tends to be nothing if not controversial! In reality, his controversy often comes from his choice of headlines, rather than the arguments he makes underneath them (e.g., the infamous “IT Doesn’t Matter” piece). His latest post is Alan Turing, cloud computing and IT’s future, and in the post you will find a link to download an 8-page article on Turing’s Universal ... read more -
Re-thinking Business-IT Maturity
by Vaughan Merlyn on Feb 04, 2008 - 09:36 AM read 568 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=166It’s time to update our venerable Business-IT Maturity curve - this is a BIG DEAL! (Well, at least it is to some of us!) For the last 10 years or so I have been drawing a simplified version of the Business-IT Maturity curve as a single ‘S’ curve, or learning curve. I typically talk about three major stages, or “levels” on this curve - Level 1 is focused ... read more -
Why ITIL is "Necessary but not sufficient"
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jan 23, 2008 - 05:00 AM read 505 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/why-it...My post yesterday claimed that ITIL is necessary, but not sufficient for reaching Level 3 Business-IT Maturity. As anticipated, this has led to a fair amount of traffic, some showing up as commentary on the blog, others showing up as email messages from various vendors of Service Management and ITIL support services. I therefore want to expand upon and defend my position on this. In so doing, ... read more -
ITIL: Necessary, but not sufficient!
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jan 22, 2008 - 05:00 AM read 2630 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/itil-n...I posted yesterday on the distinctions between IT Product Management and IT Service Management. Rich Lemieux commented and pointed us to his helpful and informative DITY Newsletter and to his article on the 5 domains of ITIL V3suggesting that IT organizations organize themselves around these domains as the “five new silos of IT.” A couple of push back’s - one minor and one major. The minor ... read more -
How Sustainable is Your IT Portfolio?
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jan 17, 2008 - 07:54 PM read 402 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/how-su...My post Project vs. Program vs. Portfolio back on October 15, 2007, continues to be the most popular post on my blog, day after day. Given that, I feel compelled to drill down further into this topic. Today, I will address IT Portfolio Management, which is at the heart and soulof leveraging IT for business value. And yet most IT organizations do a poor job of ... read more -
Business-IT Maturity and the Trap of "Walled-off Resources"
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jan 15, 2008 - 05:00 AM read 378 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/busine...I was consulting for a client recently, and they used the term “walled-off” resources to describe IT professionals who were dedicated to specific business units. (As an aside, when I first heard them using this term, I thought they were saying “Waldorf resources” and could not imagine what this meant!) Anyway, I think the principle of dedicating IT professionals to business units is important, and will be ... read more -
Wecome Back, Information Center - All Is Forgiven!
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jan 10, 2008 - 05:00 AM read 2000 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/wecome...Earlier in my consulting and research career, especially in the early-1980’s to mid-1990’s, an IT organizational construct typically called “The Information Center” became popular in medium to large enterprises. The philosophy behind the Information Center (IC) could be captured in a single phrase, “teach them to fish so they’ll feed themselves for a lifetime.” IC’s comprised a small group of IT professionals (typically between 3 and 15 ... read more -
Business-IT Maturity and Change in Organizational Mission
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jan 07, 2008 - 09:19 AM read 1496 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/busine...As I’ve been researching human and organizational development for BSG Concours’s Reaching Level 3 multi-client research, I was reminded of the role of organizational “mission” as frequently expressed through some form of mission statement. I’ve done a lot of work over the years (both research and consulting) on IT organizational change and transformation, much of which involved defining or refining organizational mission and organizational vision (with its corresponding < ... read more -
Reflections on 2007 - En Route to 2017
by Vaughan Merlyn on Dec 27, 2007 - 09:44 AM read 2059 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/reflec...It seems like a good time of the year to reflect on significant milestones or events that somehow mark 2007 on the journey to 2017 for IT organizations. Ten years from now, when students of IT organizational evolution look back on 2007, what might the year be remembered for? I’ll split this into a couple of posts as we ramp down 2007. SOA crossed the threshold into ... read more -
Did You Accidently Outsource Your Enterprise Architecture?
by Vaughan Merlyn on Dec 21, 2007 - 12:44 PM read 476 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/did-yo...I’ve referenced Enterprise Architecture several times in this blog, and see it (or lack thereof!) as a common “sticking point” (see, for Example, Enterprise Architecture and Level 2 Sticking Point) as it’s one of those things that does not naturally “grow” out of less mature practices (IT Architecture, for example) but takes a different twist (bottom up to top down, and inside-out to outside-in, for example). I’ve found myself ... read more -
Business-IT Maturity: Theory Of The Case - Part 2
by Vaughan Merlyn on Dec 18, 2007 - 06:00 AM read 412 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/busine...I want to pick up on this theme as we head into the holidays. In Part 1 I talked about the drivers that are impacting business-IT maturity - Universal, Business and Internal IT. Now I want to look at some of the overarching principles I’m seeing in business-IT maturation. The idea is that these principles will help you accelerate your IT maturity - provide some guideposts for reaching organizational and structural ... read more -
Business-IT Maturity: Theory Of The Case - Part 1
by Vaughan Merlyn on Dec 14, 2007 - 06:00 AM read 2196 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/busine...I’d liketo begin examining and making explicit a theory of the case for “Next Generation IT Capability.” By theory of the caseI mean to identify the major drivers behind increasing business-IT maturity, and lay out some basic principles of business-IT evolution - how today’s IT shops are evolving to capitalize on emerging technologies (e.g., Web 2.0, SOA, SaaS) and enable new and more valuable business models. Let’s start by considering thedrivers ... read more
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