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When Words Just Don’t Cause Change
I was in a heated ‘discussion’ with a client recently. We had completed an IT strategy refresh and one of the outstanding items was to review their IT Principles. The IT leadership team had come up...
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The Decline and Fall of the IT Organization?
With apologies to Ed Yourdon for my plagiarism of his original the book title, published back in 1993, “The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer“. (Though I don’t recall if Ed gave apologies to...
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Why It’s Time to Re-Think IT Funding Models! – Part 1 of 3
The Live 3rd Rail! Recently, a colleague said to me about a client, “It’s time to raise the subject of their IT funding model. The current model is causing all sorts of dysfunctional behaviors!” My...
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COBIT – Good News… Bad News!
COBIT is described by its creators, ISACA, as a “Framework for IT Governance and Control.” Celebrating it’s 15-year anniversary, COBIT provides an excellent framework for helping bring IT under...
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Changing the Culture of an IT Organization – One Wiki Page at a Time!
I’ve been a student of IT organizational culture since I began my management consulting career some 30+ years ago. It’s wrong, of course, to generalize too broadly, but I’ve worked with literally...
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Projects, Programs and Portfolios – 3 Common Traps
I recently got the following email from a reader of my blog: I am a student of project management… Thank you for the article Project vs. Program vs. Portfolio Management. However, I have a challenge...
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Does Cloud+Consumerization Doom the Federated IT Operating Model?
The Federated IT Operating Model is Under Threat! Today, most organizations employ some sort of Federated IT Operating Model. Wikipedia defines a federation as: …characterized by a union of partially...
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Is IT Organizational Confusion Exacerbated by the Role of Business...
I received a question from a reader about the role of a Business Relationship Manager (BRM). I decided to bring the question and my response to this blog. His question, and the context for it was:...
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The Keys to IT Demand Management
Once again, I’m posting in response to a reader’s emailed question. The reader wrote: While trying to understand the difference between Demand management, Portfolio Management and Project management...
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Why Business Relationship Manager Success Hangs On So Many Variables! (Part 1...
My regular readers (yes, both of them – my brother and my cat) will have noticed that I’ve been posting more about the Business Relationship Manager role lately. It seems that there’s a surge...
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IT Organization Circa 2017 – 5 Year Countdown (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this post I pointed out why I’d named this blog “IT Organization Circa 2017″ and why I’d picked 2017. I then offered some musings about the nature and shape of the IT Organization Circa...
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Announcing the Inaugural Instructor-Led On-line Business Relationship...
I am very excited to announce that I will be teaching the upcoming inaugural Business Relationship Management Professional™ (BRMP™) training and certification program on 3 days over a 3-week period,...
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The Disciplines of Business-IT Engagement
Engagement is a term often used when discussing the relationship between an IT organization and the business units it serves. It’s interesting (and amusing!) to look at the many meanings ascribed to...
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