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The Widening Gap In Business-IT Maturity Levels
by itorganization2017 on Jul 19, 2008 - 09:21 AM read 23 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=295We have been compiling the results of one facet of our multi-company research into business-IT maturity - the maturity assessment that companies took as part of participation in the research project. The purpose of the surveywas to provide an assessment of business-IT capability in a corporation or business unit. We asked that the survey be completed by an executive familiar with the business strategy for technology use, the ... read more -
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 -
Edginess and IT Innovation
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jul 10, 2008 - 09:37 AM read 101 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=275In preparing for our upcoming Executive Perspective in Chicago on September 18/19, my team has been exploring what is meant by “edginess?” What does edginess look like in its various forms? When and how is edginess good, productive, appropriate? When isit bad, counterproductive, inappropriate? John Hagel and John Seely Brown in their landmark paper, “From Push to Pull- Emerging Models for Mobilizing Resources” contend “The edge is ... read more -
Web 2.0 and the Other Side of Blogging
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jul 02, 2008 - 12:56 PM read 123 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=271I had a client experience the other day that got me thinking about IT professionals, Web 2.0 and the not-so-simple act of “keeping up” with today’s incredible pace of technology change. I was in an IT meeting with abouteighteenIT managers. It was my first meeting with this group. I noted that EVERY one of them brought laptop computers with them, opened them, and started working on them. I ... read more -
Executive Perspective: Unleashing the Core, Innovating the Edge
by Erinn McMahon on Jul 01, 2008 - 01:07 PM read 78 timesStart Date: Sep 18, 2008 End Date: Sep 19, 2008
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Mark Your Calendars - September 18-19, Chicago, Il
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jun 25, 2008 - 02:32 PM read 299 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=264I am very excited about an upcoming event we are holding in Chicago mid-September. I’ve been busily collaborating with an internal team here at nGenera, and with a Professor from Emory University on creating an event designed for senior business, IT and HR executives. The session, entitled “Unleashing the Core, Innovating the Edge” explores the thorny subject of innovation in today’s businesses. It will open with a ... 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 -
The Creeping Insanity of Security Questions
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jun 16, 2008 - 08:35 AM read 908 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=256Excuse me if I deviate for a moment and go off on a rant, but I’ve had it up to my proverbialeyeballs with the creeping insanity that’s gripped people responsible for protecting us from would be evil-doers on websites. Due to changes in my home technology set up as well as changes to my company email address, I spent part of the weekend updating my personal details on various ... read more -
On-Demand Webinar: Expanding Business IT Capabilities
by Junko Matthews on Jun 13, 2008 - 08:37 AM read 1015 times
The IT Relationship Manager's Role in Expanding Business-IT Capability (View Webinar) Is your IT organization successfully moving towards business transformation? Today's organizations should be transitioning from a partner in business performance to an active agent of innovation, collaboration, and business growth. This means reaching "Level 3" Business-IT capability, where IT shapes and enables strategic business options, and business and IT converge with seamless interactions between the ... read more -
Quality and Innovation - Strange Bedfellows?
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jun 09, 2008 - 08:21 AM read 82 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=251One of the themes I’ve come back to from time to time is the notion of “sticking points” - i.e., in the context of business-IT maturity, things that you have to do to get from one level to the next, that if you keep doing them, will actually prevent you from getting to the next level. The analogy is, you can’t walk by crawling faster, or you can’t run by ... read more -
The IT Relationship Managers Role in Expanding Business-IT Capability
by Vaughan Merlyn on May 28, 2008 - 06:00 AM read 320 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=243For those who care, I apologize for a recent decrease in frequency of posts - I hope it’s not a real problem for you. I’m still trying to figure out the optimal frequency and best days topost to this blog. Of course, the bigger issue is sustaining the content, which requires concentrated writing and, perhaps more important, reading time. For all good reasons, I’ve been consumed by other activities lately - ... read more -
Platform Thinking
by Vaughan Merlyn on May 20, 2008 - 06:00 AM read 218 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=241Idris Mootee’s excellent blog, Innovation Playground posted on “What’s the Difference Between Platform Strategy vs. Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy?” This is a great post, and a opens up a huge area for analysis, speculation and discussion around platform thinking. Platform thinking emerged as an important dimension in our recent Reaching Level 3 Multi-company research. I believe platform strategies build strongly on the disciplines of architecture,marketing, product, ... read more -
The Miracle of Open Source
by Vaughan Merlyn on May 19, 2008 - 07:11 AM read 427 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=239I enjoyed this post by Tom Evslin in his Fractals of Change blog. Tom describes himself as a “Rip Van Winkle” of programming - a programmer who stopped writing code for 17 years and has recently started again. He notes, “At my age, I can build much more interesting stuff in a day of coding now than I could in a week the last time I was doing this ... read more -
Recession and Business-IT Maturity
by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 22, 2008 - 06:00 AM read 451 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=230Just as a lot of CIO’s were gearing up for a year or twoof growth and innovation, many are now being told to “hunker down” for a period of austerity. The usual first victims - cut travel, cut training, cut anything that smells like overhead! That Enterprise Architecture initiative that was starting to pay off? Cut it back! The SOA pilots? Put them on a back burner. The Relationship Management ... 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 -
So, What Comes After Level 3 Business-IT Maturity?
by Vaughan Merlyn on Mar 12, 2008 - 05:36 AM read 344 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=201I had a question from a colleague recently that I’d like to address in this post. She asked, “Im going to ask a possibly ‘dumb’ question, but since I believe that there are no dumb questions Im asking it anyway Since level 3 is constantly evolving i.e., todays Level 3 will be tomorrows Level 2 etc., isnt it always going to be a moving target? If I was a company ... read more -
Reaching Level 3: The Mindset Factor
by Vaughan Merlyn on Mar 05, 2008 - 05:00 AM read 585 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=194I’ve posted before on the role of ambition as a key factor in driving business-IT maturity. I want to move beyond that and pick up the theme of mindset. This is a topic I covered in today’s teleconference as part of our multi-client research project into business-IT maturity. According to Wikipedia, Mindset refers to the set of assumptions or methods held by ... read more -
You Know Youve Reached Level 3 When
by Vaughan Merlyn on Mar 04, 2008 - 07:13 AM read 1095 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=196Back in mid-December, I posted “You Know You’ve Reached Level 3 When…“ As the BSG Alliance multi-company research project that has been examining Reaching Level 3 Business-IT Maturity shifts gears from its research to its reporting phase, I want to revisit that headline. Here are some ‘one-liners’ that are being discussed in today’s WebEx session for the participating companies: You know you’ve reached Level 3 ... read more
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