How well does your top management understand IT?
I am proposing a way to 'measure' the 'understanding' the top of an organisation has — how capable it is of making informed strategic decisions — on a subject, e.g. legal, finance, or what is my...
View ArticleIs Your Consultant a Parasite?
Good consultants do exist. But so do parasitic ones. This story is about why they happen and how to spot them.
View ArticleFrom Dark Scrum to Broken SAFe — some real problems of Agile-at-scale. And a...
There is a massive movement of organisations moving to agile-at-scale (e.g. SAFe). Ironically, it can turn into an organisation becoming one big 'project', the opposite of what agile wants to achieve.
View ArticleShould you derive your IT Strategy from your Business Strategy? Probably not...
It is generally accepted that IT Strategy must follow Business Strategy. It seems a no-brainer. But is it? There are reasons to look at it differently, reasons that become more pressing as...
View ArticleFor the Board: Essential Reading on IT Strategy
IT is notoriously hard to manage and it has been so for decades. As a result, the execution of new strategies is often exceedingly difficult. These 4 articles (2 serious, 2 a bit tongue-in-cheek) are...
View ArticleWanted: IT advisor. No real IT insight required.
IT is one of the few fields where it is generally considered you do not need to understand it to make decisions about it.For good IT advisors, the kind that actually understand what they are advising...
View ArticleAmateurs talk Strategy, Professionals talk Logistics — that is kind of true...
It is an old adagium of warfare: Amateurs talk Strategy, Professionals talk Logistics. Maybe surprisingly, this is true in IT as well. Maybe it is true in any complex and unpredictable situation, which...
View ArticleCicero and chatGPT — signs of AI progress?
Cicero, an AI, performed in the top 10% against human performers in the game Diplomacy, which is about negotiating with others. chatGPT is making the rounds with its impressive output. Are these AI...
View ArticleThe lack of use cases for blockchain should teach organisations a valuable...
If someone tries to get you to invest in some shiny new technology — like blockchain 5-8 years ago — beware. How do you judge these proposals? A realistic use case is key.
View ArticleDon’t forget all the things that a core team performs to a tee, but that you...
The third 'fragmentation wave' of the IT-revolution is upon us, it seems. Fragmentation is a repeated pattern in the IT-revolution, that has given us object oriented programming and agile/DevOps as...
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