10 Friday Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
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Business-IT Alignment, Different Show, Enterprise Architecture, information management, IT Governance, IT Management, IT Strategy, Organisational Dysfunction, Systems Integration, Technology Complexity, The IT Circus: Same Clowns
The IT business suffers a malaise, it also affects other businesses. In IT, like in other lines of business, much of what has been made is eventually sidelined and forgotten. If it was ever on the radar in the first place. Continue reading
30 Tuesday Sep 2014
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Behavioural Economics, Big Data, Business Ethics, Business Management, business strategy, Corporate Culture, Data Trustworthiness, Organisational Behaviour, Organisational Dysfunction, The Johnny Rotten Guide to Corporate Honesty
You’ve heard the stories. Little Johnny did this, little Johnny did that, little Johnny did god knows what.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in Snippet
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business intelligence, Business-IT Alignment, data architecture, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Information Management, IT Project Failure, IT Strategy, Organisational Dysfunction, project management, Systems Integration, The Compound Fracture of Corporate IT
Twenty years ago, you wanted a new bathroom, so you hired a building contractor to come in and build a bathroom of your own design.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
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Business Value, Business-IT Alignment, CEO Leadership, Corporate Accountability, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, IT Failures, IT Governance, IT Project Management, IT Strategy, Organisational Dysfunction, Technology Management, The IT Landscape of Missed Opportunities
From banking to airlines, through communications businesses to pharmaceutical companies, the IT landscape is littered with failures of Homeric proportions, lost opportunities and profligate waste. Across the spectrum of commercial enterprise, the IT bottom line is inevitably familiar: in general, businesses expose themselves to unnecessary levels of disruption, and spend far too much time and money on IT projects, IT products and internal IT services that frankly suck.