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Why Management Fails in Information Strategy

14 Tue Oct 2014

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In the dim and distant past most organisations struggled along with what they euphemistically referred to as Information Systems.

They were Information Systems with no overall design, no elements of management and no architecture.

Information Systems were built to show how the company had been performing in the immediate past, and that was it. Continue reading →

Strategy and Market forces – Get your ducks lined up – 2026

10 Fri Oct 2014

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Strategy and Market forces – Get your ducks lined up

Martyn Richard Jones – 2026 Revamp

Let’s now take a brief look at my ‘nine competitive dimensions’  model.

This model will be familiar to some who will readily connect with the inclusion of government as an environmental dimension.

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Understanding Operational Awareness for Strategic Success – For 2026

08 Wed Oct 2014

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Martyn Richard Jones

Remastered for 2026 – Buy my books! Get my advice! Benefit from me!

I frequently include the term Operational Awareness in talks.

I think it’s important for strategy.

So I wrote a piece that tried to convey what I mean by the term. Continue reading →

Creativity – Three Stories – Remastered for 2026

05 Sun Oct 2014

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Martyn Richard Jones

Remastered for 2026

Here are three stories that illustrate the connection between creativity and what we do in business. Jack’s Retail Story talks about the expansion of retail business; Jill’s Colour Book Story highlights a hugely pervasive tendency, even in these times; and Martyn’s Summer Story argues that there is a strategic time and place for some things.

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Mugged in Data Hell – Perils of embracing the Faustian Side of IT – Part 3

03 Fri Oct 2014

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Continued from Part 2 which can be found here -> Part 2

I look over at Crème, who is now staring out the window watching the rain. I cough, theatrically, for effect. “So, Crème, would you like a rest, or do you want to tell us about what happened next?”

“Oh, yes” Crème says, “Sorry, I was wandering there for a while”. She continues.

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Mugged in Data Hell – Perils of embracing the Faustian Side of IT – Part 1 – Remaster 2026

02 Thu Oct 2014

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Martyn ‘Rhysiart’ Jones

Spain

It’s Friday morning in Canary Wharf, and I have been asked to facilitate a meeting of a chapel of IT Dogma Suckers and Digital Snake-oil Victims, the self-help recovery chain for people who have fallen victim to the pernicious and debilitating effects of IT dogma and professional rip-offs. Continue reading →

Transforming IT: A Guide for CEOs – REMASTER 2026

14 Sun Sep 2014

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Far too few CEOs regularly think about IT on a habitual basis, and especially as something that is potentially integrated into everything their companies do and could do. This, however, is not at all surprising; there is a general lack of time for any CEO to be actively involved in what IT does, and they will generally have some degree of misunderstanding of both the historic roles and the relative successes and failures of IT.

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The Human Side of IT: Bridging Technology and People – REMASTER 2026

14 Sun Sep 2014

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Martyn Richard Jones

Remastered for 2026

INTRO 2026

Reality bites down hard when it wants to, and more often than not when we are least expecting it. IT is seldom given importance for valid business reasons, such as its support of operational excellence or the quality support of valuable, mission-critical business, and bureaucratic reasons are not necessarily business reasons; they are frequently at the forefront of business life for primarily negative reasons.

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