You could have heard a pin drop in the room. We were debating the target architecture of a large program. Someone in the room had said: “We created a target architecture four years ago, which we all believed in, and I guess we are half-way through implementing it. So, why is this not helping us…
A quick search for “IT maturity models” on Google produces over 4 million results. Finding the right maturity model is about as useful as searching through the millions of records looking for a single actionable process to achieve IT maturity. IT maturity models, maturity curves, and capability models all attempt to find your location on…
In “Why today’s IT organization doesn’t work anymore,” I wrote about why traditional IT organizations don’t meet today’s need. At the core of my argument was that with customers and 24/7 digital feedback loops at the heart of modern digital business models, classic, siloed IT organizations are ripe for disruption and transformation. Given the need…