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Comments on McKinsey’s article on “Nine questions to help you get your digital transformation right”.
“Do you know which customer journeys matter?”
What they (McKinsey) say is that the Digital transformati
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Comments on McKinsey’s article on “Nine questions to help you get your digital transformation right”.
“Do you know which customer journeys matter?”
What they (McKinsey) say is that the Digital transformati
what leaders should review, is alternative target operating models or big pictures and new business models for the enterprise, so that they can understand how the business will be changed and be able to make decisions.
what leaders should review, is alternative target operating models or big pictures and new business models for the enterprise, so that they can understand how the business will be changed and be able to make decisions.
Surveys may be sometimes as irrelevant as polls are
EA team should keep it clear rather than simple…Simple does not equal Clear. The opposite of simple is complicate, which you can do only so much about, while of clear is confuse, which is a state of mind.
While EA is involved and should produce guidelines for the decision process, it should not make decisions on behalf of the business.
McKinsey’s published its Ten practical ideas for organizing and managing your enterprise architecture
Perhaps, the article should have started though with a definition of what EA means for different organisations and what are its methods an…
I started my blog “Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education” in May 2007 to share the EA work my colleagues and I have done. My goal was to share the practical approaches that we implemented to move our organizations forward. I hope that you have seen value and found ways to use some of our ideas to move your […]
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I posted earlier on “Where should IT sit in the reporting structure?” I did more research and found this very interesting paper: CIO Reporting Structure, Strategic Positioning, and Firm Performance: To Whom Should the CIO Report? The authors state that the reporting structure for a CIO depends on the strategic positioning of the firm. In […]
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How are you?
Busy? oh thats a shame.
That thing you are working on thats really really important? i’m sorry, its probably not.
That deadline that is causing you stress, its an arbitrary deadline and it isn’t important.
That last big project you worked on, think about all the things you did as part of it, How many of the things you worked so hard on was actually useful? hardly any.
Look back at the last year, count the number of things you did that were really important, be honest, did you have to use the fingers on your second hand?
Laziness isn’t a negative thing, laziness in its purest form is honesty, honesty with yourself about what is really important and what doesn’t matter.
“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all” – Drucker (Management guru and aphorism rich Philospher King of Laziness)
Busy is self-deception, protecting your ego and your self-importance.
Unless your job involves something akin to hacking coal out of a mine you don’t need to be busy, you need to be creative and for that you need focus and space and for that you need Lazy.
Here are the “slides” from a new session on “Essential Balances in Organisations” delivered last month in Brussels. I had some troubles with Slideshare recently. Now it seems stable but in case the presentation is not accessible there, you can download the same PDF from here. Tweet This Post