Strategy
Embeded from WM
Cisco’s Wendy Mars Reponds To UCS Bloggers from Velocity on Vimeo.
Taking Control of Software Licencing
This is a great whitpaper from the folks at BDNA. It is an excellent take on the age old issue of Reducing Cost and Mitigating Risk with Accurate, Relevant IT Insight.
Download here.
The Four Domain Architecture - re-discovered.
I love the fact that almost everyday, I learn something new and often re-discover concepts that have not been “hot” in recent years. I have been researching differing frameworks and methodologies lately, in an effort to find a way to steer our architectural team. I came across an interesting approach that I haven’t seen for [...]
Strategic IT Planning..bringing order to chaos - White Paper
EA: Bringing Order to Chaos
Which Is Harder: Blueprinting Manhattan or Building an Enterprise Architecture? Well, It Depends.
By Dennis Broderick
To reinvent themselves, support their missions, and improve upon day-to-day operations, government organizations are actively pursuing business transformation. This is no trivial undertaking for government agencies with complex enterprises, hundreds of business processes, and thousands of systems. [...]
Set your goals..or..when strategy takes a vacation
Summer vacation comes but once a year! I have just returned from a week away on an idyllic, tropical island in the Atlantic and it leaves me wondering a little. Here is a place that 30 years ago was still in the 18th century. No freeways, cities or even accessible utilities. But now, a modern, clean [...]
So what is IT Alignment?
Ok, I get it. First of all, it is worth noting that many IT directors and CIOs think they are doing IT alignment—but most of them are not because they really don’t understand what IT alignment is. Many wrongly think that because they have business justifications for each of the projects in their IT projects [...]
Reasons for the five steps
1. Get a written list of the company’s strategic business goals.
This will help the entire company focus on the same specific strategic business goals. A strategic business goal might be something like “Increase our market share by 2 percent over the next 12 months” or “Open up a new market in the Pacific Rim of [...]
5 Steps to IT Alignment
hmm.. perhaps my favourite topic. How do you align IT and the Business. Well first, let me say that i think the horse has bolted on this one. If your business and IT are not aligned, that is, if they are still viewed as two seperate entities…then perhaps it is too late. Never the less, [...]
Bring on the Transformation
Summary: Service Providers face a very differnent market and user base today than they did even 3 years ago. Faced with two scenarios. Stagnate or Transform. The choice is easy and very difficult.
This Strategist works at a fairly large, around 7,000 heads, IT service provision organisation. We serve around 67,000 clients, 14,000 wintel servers, 6,000 [...]
Stick to your guns or bend in the wind…
It would seem to me that every strategist is faced with the “stay the course” or “cut and run” choice at least once in their career. Usually, it is many more times than one!
The IT Strategists dilemma is: should I do as planned or change the plan?
In answering this question, there is the risk of [...]
