The word agile has hit mainstream in the German market. What used to be exotic 5-6 years ago is now in the minds of IT leadership at all levels. Unfortunately, the word agile is being interpreted in multiple ways. We are finding that most organizations immediately jump into “doing agile” – learning what SCRUM is,…
As CIOs work out their spending and strategies for the year, the annual review of the disaster recovery and business continuity plan will inevitably form part of a lengthy to-do list. Yet with the ever-increasing threats from both natural and man-made disasters – from the devastating fires and flooding in California last year through to…
Business-capability models, business-process models, and business-organizational models define the foundation of your business partner’s business. We’ve all seen them. Some look amazingly complex, and others you wonder if they were stopped half way through the process. Together, these models are the cornerstone for tomorrow’s success, as they define the present and future state of a…
Digital transformations are fashionable these days. You won’t find an enterprise that isn’t leveraging some combination of cloud, analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to better serve customers or streamline operations. But here’s a hard truth about digital transformations: Many are failing outright or are in danger of failing. Half of 400 U.S.-based senior executives…
Focusing on strategic initiatives is possible once tactical needs are met. Use these three tools to talk about strategy faster. What does BRM value mean to your organization? This is a question that all CIOs pose to their leadership teams shortly after entering the BRM journey. In sum, it’s a quest for value. The BRM…
The global IT market is projected to reach $3.7 trillion in 2018, a year-over-year increase of 4.3 percent, according to Gartner. Underpinning this massive figure are countless everyday interactions between CIOs and the vendors who serve them — interactions that lead to collaboration or friction, understanding or confusion, success or failure. Strategic IT leaders leave nothing…
The IT stack at Live Nation Entertainment resembled the setup typically found at most companies of any substantial size and age: a mix of new systems with some older hardware and software. Similarly, Live Nation found itself in another typical situation: trying to move at the speed of business while dealing with legacy systems not…
Releasing the skills from the box It is all too common for staff to collaborate only within their teams. When people have little or no interaction with others outside the walls of their silo, the organization is wasting powerful resources. The adaptive organization allows staff to express these skills in a “big picture” way –…
Growth tops the list of business priorities reported by CIOs for 2018, according to Gartner’s 2018 CIO Agenda Report. The results mirror the analyst’s prior 2017 CEO Survey, in which 58 percent of respondents identified growth as their top priority. After polling some 2,615 IT leaders on their organization, one out of four (26 percent)…
Organizations want to be “data-driven.” The gist of which is they want people using data to make decisions. Leaders know that too many people make stuff up. And every leader has done it themselves, so it’s not as if it’s a secret or anything. So, we want our data to drive our organization. But what…