Strategy is an abstract artHow good are you at managing strategy? If you are not sure, here’s a very simple test – get a jigsaw puzzle and empty the pieces onto your desk, face down. Now, throw away the puzzle box, ask three friendly colleagues to remove an unspecified number of pieces each, at random, and to put the [...] Web 2.0 – Killer App?Enterprises are falling over themselves to become “2.0.” At least one company (Compuware 2.o) has changed its business name to incorporate the magic numbers. Mashups, wikis, p2p networks, blogs and tagging are proliferating exponentially. But none of these is the real killer app for Web 2.0. Not that hardColin Beveridge will set out a compelling vision of the future in a series of new executive briefings. Why is the IT-centric paradigm redundant? Contact Colin Beveridge for more [...] Child’s Play (part 2)How kids teach themselves to use PCs. Three burning CEO questions for a CIOHere are a few of my suggestions for questions that a CEO needs to ask the CIO: What do we really need for the future? Well [...] The growing plethora of social networking sites is being fuelled by a powerful combination of free access, functionality, fashion and fickleness.{readmore} Beveridge’s LawLife is full of intriguing paradoxes and none more so than the regular imbalance between IT investment and IT strategy. This is so widespread that I feel compelled to declare a new law of computing: Beveridge’s Law, which states that the financial investment in technology is inversely proportional to the organisation’s strategic planning effort. |
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