Innovation

Will Your Organisation Need a CIO by 2020?

The title of my new blog post is provocative. Why would I ask such a question, especially after covering number of CIO surveys, trends, leading CIO thought leaders and underlining the strategic importance of IT in this very blog? I am asking…

A Model for Literature on Enterprise Architecture

I have been working with several different perspectives on governance, strategy, it architecture and enterprise architecture. I have read several books on the three topics and as such I have been able to build a model for categorizing the literature. The Model…

How Innovative Retail Architecture is Boosting Profits at ASOS

Outstanding and outperforming businesses often challenge conventional industry architectures. Such organisations innovate and develop new business models on their way to above-average profits. The online fashion giant ASOS (as seen on screen) has exactly done this. In one of firsts of the…

How Innovative Retail Architecture is Boosting Profits at ASOS

Outstanding and outperforming businesses often challenge conventional industry architectures. Such organisations innovate and develop new business models on their way to above-average profits. The online fashion giant ASOS (as seen on screen) has exactly done this. In one of firsts of the…

Fight inertia and resurrect entrepreneurs

All organizations at some time in their history have experimented, gained knowledge, and operationalized it – experimentation is synonymous with entrepreneurialism. Entrepreneurs test many theories as they launch an idea. They are not afraid of making errors and learning from their mistakes.…

Week 22 Enterprise Architecture Summer Camp (Day 2)

This blog post deals with the second and final day of the summer school dealing with Enterprise Architecture. The tagline for the summer school is “Scandinavian Design and Oblique Angles”. The day was characterized as a setup that was dominated by companies…

Context breaks Taylor’s hold on strategy

Last week’s post “Replacing Taylorism as our Management Doctrine” called for the end of Taylorism. Thankfully, I am not the first to call for the end of Taylorism or to write about human characteristics which businesses frequently ignore. There are many before…

Replacing Taylorism as our Management Doctrine

Over the last 239 years, organizations have been applying hierarchy, and top-down command-oriented management. This mindset erupted with the dawn of the steam engine in 1771, and in the late 1800s it was honed to razor sharpness by Frederick Winslow Taylor –…

Taylorism – A Pox upon Agile

This past Thursday my colleague Kirk Knoernschild pointed out a blog post by Alistair Cockburn about Taylorism creeping into the world of agile. Alistair’s post ignited a discussion within Gartner’s IT1 team reflecting on how it applied to our own agile work…

Gamification – a Small Play for Game Dynamics

Gamification, where organizations incorporate game dynamics into applications, is one of the latest trends.  Many view it as a silver bullet to load into marketing websites, innovation tools, worker productivity tools, ERP systems, and social environments. The hope is that these applications…

The Wisdom of the Iron Age

Interesting BBC programme In Our Time this morning about The Dawn of the Iron Age. Why and how did people start making ornaments and tools and weapons from copper and tin and lead? Because the ores were shiny, and it was easy…
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