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Thought of the day

Incentives beat intention.

— Post From My iPhone

IT as business process standardisation

“The Quarterly: CIOs debate whether IT should follow business change or lead it—in your case, for example, by furthering Shell’s globalization through IT standardization. What is your view?

Alan Matula: I see it somewhat differently. IT is like cement to the standardization activities. If you don’t cement changes with IT, then over time they will erode and revert back. IT provides the transparency that you need for driving standardization in a large, diversified corporation like Shell.”

– https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Business_Technology/BT_Strategy/Managing_IT_transformation_on_a_global_scale_An_interview_with_Shell_CIO_Alan_Matula_2559 

Cory Doctorow’s ‘Makers’

Cory Doctorow’s new novel ‘Makers’ is being serialised for free.  His books are always enjoyable.  But this one in particular is interesting because it begins with a great description of a market-based organisation as envisioned under the ManageWithoutThem management model and described in the MWT Book.

It describes an organisation that is designed to both employee but also coordinate via market-facing and market-managed individual businesses.  It gets a lot of the cultural and operational elements of this sort of organisation spot on.

I’m currently working with Satyam – which has been in the news a lot this year – and is supposed to be organisd in this market-managed way.  However, I think a lot of the internal processes, and the Indian approach to family-based management of businesses, get in the way of this and often break the model.

Architecture as Strategy

Review of Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution to follow…

Link to the book’s companion web site

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