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The term Target Operating Model (or TOM) has been used a lot in many of the organisations that I have worked for all around the world over the years. Many 100s of millions of dollars in business […]
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Serendipity is a wonderful (and sometimes entertaining) thing. Monday afternoon, two tweets wound up one after the other in my timeline, one interesting and one “interesting” (I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine which is which): and My favorite definition for the word “innovation” comes from Scott Berkun: If you must […]
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On McKinsey’s Two Speed IT Architecture and Digital Business Models
On McKinsey’s Two Speed IT Architecture and Digital Business Models (i)
I recently discovered a DVD with a 30-minute video of a keynote that I gave back in 2004 at the Online Information conference in Olympia, London – which is now added to my YouTube channel on Enterprise Architecture. I think the original argument still holds true: we are producing information faster than our capacity to use it:
In this post I’d like to debunking three popular myths about information and information technology. Myth 1: The best way to improve the use of information is to invest in information technology. This is an expensive and time-consuming way to make improvements, but it is the route favoured by the technology vendors, big consultancies, and…
Today I like to talk about the parenthesis in term of rhetoric not the moth called ‘Lecithocera parenthesis’. Parenthesis is an explanatory or qualifying word in a passage or statement, as I have just attempted in the first sentence. I most modern writing qualification of a statement often only happens in the second or third … Continue reading Parenthesis →
Filed under: Agility, Business Technology, Governance, Project Management, Remote Management
I’m working on a few more serious things, but in the meantime I did not want to let this happen silently. The animation Why Enterprise Architecture (“Meet Michael”) is now (clearly, 2000 views more than the next one) the most … Continue reading →
Filed under: Agility, Business Technology, Enterprise Services Management, Governance, Project Management
Even before I hit the “Publish” button on Monday’s post, “Regulating Software Development”, I had already started composing this post in my head. In that post I had used the words “corrupt culture” in passing. I needed to expand on that, because I believe that’s what lies at the heart of Uber’s cascading collection of […]
Filed under: Agility, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Services Management, Governance
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On McKinsey’s Two Speed IT Architecture and Digital Business Models
On McKinsey’s Two Speed IT Architecture and Digital Business Models (i)
McK comes to the conclusion that a Two Spe