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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 -
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 -
Upcoming CIO Staff Meeting - Reaching Level 3 Business-IT Capability
by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 10, 2008 - 01:30 PM read 423 timesOn May 15, from 11:00am to 12:30pm I will be leading the CIO Staff Meeting on Reaching Level 3 Business-IT Capability. This Teleconference/WebEx event, targeted for CIO's and their staff, will share the key findings from our latest Re.sults multi-company research on driving business-IT maturity to Level 3. While Level 1 was all about Business Efficiency - focusing on IT operational execution and cost savings, and Level 2, which is where most companies ... read more -
Business Implications of SOA: Part 2
by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 08, 2008 - 08:39 AM read 1274 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=225In the last post, we talked about the first two business implications of SOA. The first isthe rapidly evolving market ecosystem for “services in the cloud” and the increasing availability of plug-’n'-play “widgets” all made possible by the underlying standards and methods of SAO. This innovation is equivalent to that brought about by the early gun makers with the introduction ofinterchangeable partsinto early gunmaking in the late ... 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 -
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 -
Improve or Innovate?
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jan 24, 2008 - 04:49 AM read 266 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/improv...My last couple of posts have been on ITIL, where I presented my argument that approaches such as this (and CMMI) are necessary but not sufficient to take Business-IT Maturity to the next level. They are necessary because they help build a solid foundation for IT operations and services. They are insufficient because they typically don’t lead the the kind of breakthroughs in IT performance that ... 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 -
Leadership Lessons from the Performing Arts - 2
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jan 19, 2008 - 05:00 AM read 422 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/leader...I am passionate about the profession of management consulting - and not ashamed to say so. I’m especially passionate about business-IT maturity, and how IT organizations transform themselves to bring the highest possible value to the businesses and communities they serve. I’m also passionate about music - bothas a listener, and as an amateur performer. As a listener, my tastes are broad - I grew upin a house where the music of Tchaikovsky, ... read more -
IT Mission versus Vision
by Vaughan Merlyn on Jan 08, 2008 - 05:00 AM read 469 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/it-mis...I posted yesterday on how IT organizational mission changes with business-IT maturity - both in terms of satisfying an evolving demand and in shaping that demand. In other words, as form follows function, organizationalcapabilities (and corresponding organizational design) follows IT organizational mission. Typically, a change in IT capabilities or organization implies aneed for, or at least a change in the future state vision of the ... 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 -
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 -
When IT is Your business - Not Just a Support Function
by Vaughan Merlyn on Dec 13, 2007 - 10:06 AM read 445 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/when-i...I’ve acknowledged previously that companies where IT essentially isthe business (think Amazon, Google, et al) mature very differently than do IT organizations that are essentially supportfunctions (thinkmost traditional businesses, even most financial services companies that arehighly information intensive). We’ve seen this in our SOA research - and this was a pattern I saw in my early days in the world of software development automation. While “embedded IT shops” where IT was ... read more
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