Chief Information Officers brought to IT from the business are generally thought to have “gone native” within six to nine months of taking up their post. (At the same time, they’re nowhere near having acquired the respect of the IT … Continue reading
Let’s imagine for a moment that you’ve created your IT Governance Board. How do you make it work? While there are processes involved, fundamentally governing isn’t about following processes. (Wait a moment: we need to get the smelling salts for … Continue reading
Once again enterprise IT budgets will be buffeted by events. It doesn’t matter how well your enterprise is doing, or how well you’re doing. Global economic storms are about to rule as they did in 2000 and 2008. How can … Continue reading
Over the past four weeks, various writers here have talked at length about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement, Big Data, customer-centricity and now Cloud Computing. What do these four mean for the future of IT organizations, when you … Continue reading
Cloud computing in its many forms has the opportunity to awaken a much needed suite of reforms in governing IT. Who Owns the Asset? We went through a period, as servers started to come in, where many organizations moved toward … Continue reading
Customer-centric IT often brings up the question of whether or not IT is (or should be) serving real customers — you know, the ones from outside your enterprise, who pay in cold hard cash? There are many good reasons to … Continue reading
Big data is one of those inescapable things. Even if we don’t think we need to worry about it, it’s going to be forced on us by vendors selling directly to the business. Yes, a new wave of “this is … Continue reading
