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IT Organization Circa 2017 - 5 Year Countdown (Part 1)

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 3 weeks ago: When I launched this blog on September 21, 2007, my opening post declared: I’ve named this blo … more →

Tags: IT Management, business-IT convergence, Business-IT Maturity, Cloud Computing, Information Technology, IT Transformation

Digital Business and the Fate of the IT Organization

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 1 month ago: InformationWeek just published an excellent article titled “Goodbye IT, Hello Digital Business … more →

Tags: IT Management, Supply Maturity, Web 2.0, Next Generation Enterprise, Customer experience, Enterprise 2.0, IT Transformation, IT Leadership, social networking

Announcing the Business Relationship Management Institute!3 comments

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 2 months ago: I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined forces with a couple of colleagues to begin a n … more →

Tags: IT Management, Service Management, business-IT convergence, IT Service Management, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, LinkedIn, Business Relationship Management, BRMI, Business Relationship Management Institute

Why Business Relationship Manager Success Hangs On So Many Variables! (Part 1 of 2)3 comments

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 2 months ago: My regular readers (yes, both of them – my brother and my cat) will have noticed that I’ … more →

Tags: Business-IT Governance, IT Management, Business Relationship Management, Chief Information Officer, CIO, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, IT Service Management

Driving Business-IT Convergence – The Evolving Role of the Business Relationship Manager (Part 1 of 2)7 comments

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 3 months ago: I’m seeing a surge of interest in the emerging role of the Business Relationship Manager (BRM) … more →

Tags: IT Management, IT Maturity, Business Partner, Business Relationship Management, business-IT convergence, Business-IT Maturity, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, IT Leadership, IT Service Management

ITIL and the Business Relationship Manager: Avoiding the Performance Trap!7 comments

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 4 months ago: I have good news, and I have bad news! The Good News… The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) 201 … more →

Tags: Change Management, Demand Management, IT Management, IT Maturity, Key Frameworks, brm, business-IT convergence, Business-IT Maturity, Business-IT Maturity Model

Design Thinking and Emerging IT Roles17 comments

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 4 months ago: This is the third and final part in a multi-part post inspired by Robert Pirsig’s masterwork, … more →

Tags: IS Management, IT Management, IT Maturity, Architecture, Business Relationship Management, business-IT convergence, Design Thinking, Enterprise Architect, Information Technology

Resolving the CIO Paradox

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 7 months ago: Last week I posted a review of the excellent book, “The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictio … more →

Tags: IT Management, Next Generation Enterprise, Enterprise 2.0, IT Transformation, Alvin Toffler, business-IT convergence, Industrial Revolution, Third Wave

Book Review - The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership1 comment

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 7 months ago: I’m often asked to review new books – I usually decline.  There’s a couple of reas … more →

Tags: IS Management, IT Management, Next Generation Enterprise, Useful Tools, business-IT convergence, Business-IT Maturity, Chief Information Officer, CIO, Enterprise 2.0

What's Really Meant By Business-IT Engagement and How Do You Achieve It?5 comments

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 8 months ago: This is another post triggered by a reader’s question emailed to me.  Here’s his questio … more →

Tags: Customer experience, Demand Management, IT Management, IT Maturity, Business Value, business-IT engagement, Business-IT Governance, Business-IT Maturity, Demand Maturity

What You Probably Don't Know About Wikis

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 8 months ago: Several of my posts talk about uses of semantic wikis.  In fact, my company is largely based upon a … more →

Tags: IT Management, social networking, Useful Tools, Web 2.0, document-centric, Groupware, Knowledge Management, mediawiki, Semantic Wiki

Does Cloud+Consumerization Doom the Federated IT Operating Model?1 comment

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 9 months ago: The Federated IT Operating Model is Under Threat! Today, most organizations employ some sort of Fede … more →

Tags: IT Management, Business-IT Governance, Next Generation Enterprise, Change Management, IT Infrastructure, IT Leadership, organizational change management, business-IT convergence, IT Governance

Who Owns the IT Operating Model?4 comments

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 11 months ago: I get into some great conversations with readers of my blog – often, however, they are ‘ … more →

Tags: Change Management, IT Management, Useful Tools, Web 2.0, business-IT convergence, IT Transformation, Operating Model, Technology Strategy

How Good are your IT Capabilities and How Good do they Need to Be? - Part 35 comments

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 11 months ago: This is the 3rd in a series on assessing IT Capabilities.  (See Part 1 and Part 2) A Quick Recap Par … more →

Tags: Change Management, IT Management, IT Maturity, Key Frameworks, Useful Tools, Assessment, Business-IT Maturity, capability approach, Capability assessment

How Good are your IT Capabilities and How Good do they Need to Be? - Part 23 comments

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 11 months ago: This is the 2nd in a multi-part post on assessing IT Capabilities.  (See Part 1) A Quick Recap Part … more →

Tags: Demand Management, IT Management, IT Maturity, Business-IT Maturity, Capability Maturity Model, Henry Mintzberg, IT Transformation, ITIL, Relationship Management

Is it time to stop talking about "the future"?

Colin Williams wrote 1 year ago: Hi all, my first post on the Computacenter blog. As practice leader for networking, security and vis … more →

Tags: Posts, Generation Z, bank of the future, borderless networking, Strategy

The Futility of Collaboration without Context4 comments

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 1 year ago: The term ‘collaboration’ gets thrown about as something inherently valuable and worthwhi … more →

Tags: IT Management, Web 2.0, Change Management, social networking, Useful Tools, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, organizational change management, organizational change

Who "Owns" the Business-IT Relationship?3 comments

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 1 year ago: My recent post on Questioning the Role of the Business Relationship Manager (BRM) has sparked some i … more →

Tags: IT Management, Relationship Management, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Architect, Business Relationship Manager, Relationships

Do You Really Need an IT Transformation?3 comments

Vaughan Merlyn wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been part of many organizational transformations over 30 years of management consulting.  … more →

Tags: IT Management, Change Management, IT Transformation, organizational change management, Shared Services, organizational change, Organization, Human Resources, Operating Model


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