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  • Trying to Implement the Functional Organisation
    In that perverse type of functional organisation that has a functional business unit for each profession, there is a predictable progression for each function. The function cannot succeed until it is centralised The function cannot succeed until it has the sponsorship of the CEO The function cannot succeed until it has its own “Chief xxxx Officer” The function cannot ...
  • Shifting to a Data-enabled Organisation – from I.T.’s Perspective
    I.T. gets a bad wrap in some information management initiatives.  I prefer to take the approach that many IT disciplines are helpful for better information management.  The shift from I.T.’s perspective often looks like this:
  • More capability-based planning goodness
    Good capability-based planning article: http://fia.workem.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=14&Itemid=111
  • Avoiding the B.A.I.T. view of Business Capabilities
    Reference material added here: Breaking free of B.A.I.T. -based Capabilities
  • Getting closer to the future of the IT function
    My views on business capability-based governance extend to the idea that an “IT function” doesn’t really make any sense at the highest governance levels.  However, the implications of this are significant.  So, in the meantime….
  • Customer centricity – solved
    I just found a nice overview diagram (nice in content, not in style) where I thought I’d solved the problem of creating a customer-centric organisation just by breaking the challenge into its components. It’s a year or so old but to be honest it still looks about right: The problem of customer orientatino is largely solved ...
  • Operating Model versus Data Governance Models
    There is a simple link between the “operating models” of the Enterprise Architecture as Strategy approach (see here) and data governance approaches (see here).   See below for the relationship:   “Four operating models” slide in the centre of the above diagram is taken from here (which is taken from the book).
  • 10 linchpin business performance improvement initiatives you should be running right now
    It’s often difficult to understand how your portfolio of projects is actually helping your organisation deliver to its strategic goals. The problem is that the projects in the portfolio often don’t play a part in ensuring the overall portfolio is easy to navigate and cohesive. You need linchpin projects in your portfolio to hold the ...
  • Management as a service, again
    Nice: If everything is a service, why should management be assigned any priority over anything else? Short answer: no valid reason at all – from a services-perspective, anyway. It’s just another service, or set of services. The only feasible reason why management might be assigned arbitrary priority over other services is from left-over delusions about ‘rights of control’. ...
  • Architecture Versus Management?
    I’m increasingly seeing the management and architecture disciplines as being in a race to control organisations.  Both groups show behaviours that suggest they are trying to extend their own discipline to encompass more of the organisation.  Equally, both groups work hard to exclude areas they are not comfortable with from their responsibilities.  Architects want to ...