Shadow IT and Shadow SaaS: challenging new threats

With new mobile uses, free software, and more agility in IT development, Shadow IT and Shadow SaaS tend to grow. Even if more agility and openness can be a lever of innovation for the business lines, this uncontrolled and even unknown shadow IT escape…

Close the Loop: Measure the Effectiveness of Change Investments using Capability-Based Planning

The previous article in this blog series covered how a Capability-Based Planning approach informs the Strategic Roadmap. We covered the Plan and Assess phases of Capability-Based Planning. In this blog, we’ll link the Plan and Assess phases to the Control phase of this process. To measure the effectiveness of change investments, you need a way…

Banking Functionality Doesn’t Differentiate Banking Software Anymore, But Technology And Ecosystems Do

Functionality in retail and corporate banking is not highly differentiating anymore. In the future, only those that can support partner solutions in their ecosystem seamlessly can fully cope with banking industry’s expanding requirements.

The Importance of Attending to Value Streams

If we think about hierarchies, we will see their effects and try to improve them. If we instead think about value streams, we will see the effects of value streams and try to improve them. Hierarchies are a structure we use to organize our people; valu…

Bizzdesign: From strategy to execution with enterprise architecture

To implement change in large and complex organizations, you need to know how the organization functions. “Are you sure that if you remove a service on one side of the organization, you won’t stop a customer process elsewhere?” asks Peter Matthijssen of Bizzdesign. You need a roadmap called enterprise architecture. “This is an essential tool…

Office of the CIO: How to Guarantee Successful Business Transformation Initiatives

Organizations need to have the ability to adapt to change continuously. The office of the CIO is typically tasked to execute transformational change initiatives, which is often complex because today’s large organizations have thousands of employees, processes and IT systems. An essential driver for the CIO to execute change is for the enterprise to move…