Business and IT alignment is yesterday’s ambition

CEO and CFO should be very wary of a CIO or Analyst still pursuing business and IT alignment, because they are clearly behind the curve, the real agenda has moved on but not towards so-called ‘business technology.’

Fixing the problems of unexpected cost and disappointment from IT investment will need more than a rebrand.

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Culture beats strategy

I often see and hear the well-worn business axiom: Culture beats stratgegy, every time… So I wasn’t particularly surprised to hear the news that Mike Lynch and quite a few of the top Autonomy team would be leaving Hewlett Packard, less than a year after HP bought Autonomy in a multibillion dollar deal.

Reports of the [former] Autonomy board READ MORE

Even the Cloud won't solve Government IT issues

Chris Chant is to be applauded for setting out some of the issues in Government IT and for seeking improvements through better systems integration skills.

However there is a whole herd of elephants sitting in the middle of the room, including: the political policy/ service fulfilment lag; fanatically policed organisational boundaries; privacy/ security/ legacy data issues; national and supra-national procurement READ MORE

Systems Blindness is damaging and expensive

a cure for corporate dyslexia?

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There are none so blind as those who will not see. But there are also those who simply cannot see the wood for the trees, which is why so many organizations unknowingly suffer from a severe form of corporate dyslexia: Systems Blindness.

How can we diagnose, treat and cure this damaging and expensive syndrome that cripples effectiveness and long-term READ MORE