Sunday, October 28, 2007

IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

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In recent years, Michael Milken has turned his attention to health and medicine. Earlier this year, the Milken Institute released a report...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Investing in Strategic Capability versus Buying Tactical Capacity

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US based IT departments are facing turbulent times. The cost efficiencies achieved through global sourcing face a triple threat to their fun...
Friday, August 24, 2007

Good Management Can Work Miracles

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Pharmaceutical companies do not successfully deliver drugs just because they hire a lot of highly skilled researchers in lab coats. They del...
Sunday, July 29, 2007

Alpha Returns Require an Alpha IT Capability

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Demand for IT in business continues to rise. Looking backward, over the last 10 years the IT market has absorbed the new capacity in Asia an...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Strategic IT Does More than Assume Technology Risk, it Mitigates Business Risk

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Risk management, particularly in IT, is still a nascent discipline. Perhaps this is because there are an overwhelming number of cultural nor...
Monday, May 28, 2007

Just as Capital Has a Static Cost of Change, So Must IT

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The global economy is awash in cash. We’ve experienced unprecedented profitability growth for the past 16+ quarters, the cost of capital is ...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Project Portfolio Management

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A critical component of IT governance is Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Effective portfolio management involves more than just collect...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Agile under Sarbanes-Oxley

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The business cycle of most firms is cash-driven: work is performed, invoiced at completion, and collected on negotiated payment terms. Obvio...
Sunday, February 18, 2007

Corporate Mental Health

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In the course of implementing Agile practices, an organisation is likely to come face to face with deficiencies in both IT and business oper...
Saturday, February 10, 2007

An "Innovation Maturity Model?"

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Our innovation model now has multiple practices within each of three dimensions. Collectively, it looks like this: Agility Requirements Re...
Friday, February 09, 2007

Aligning for Innovation

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It’s worth looking more closely at each of the factors that enable innovation within an organisation: Agility, Community and Governance. Ea...