Collective Leadership to Bridge the Gaps in Modern Information Management

Too often individuals including leaders are so busy looking at the trees that they fail to see the forest.  Unless one's company is in the business of providing information technology or related services, in the traditional organization, IT tends to be viewed as a back-office, cost-generating function. Regardless of how indispensable it may be to the company's strategic imperatives in such cases, it seems ‘never’ to achieve the same status...

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EA Value - Quick Wins or Long-term Strategy?

EA value is a combination of a long-term perspective with some quick wins. Classically, EA delivers value from a long-term strategic alignment perspective. Increasingly, EA teams are feeling pressure to deliver tangible results quickly and on a per-project basis. So tough choice for Enterprise Architect:  Do you tend to drive value from a short-term / quick-win standpoint, a long-term strategic perspective, or a combination thereof? There...

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Is IT Project Failure due to the Decision Silos?

IT projects failure is the disconnect in expectations.  An independent, international survey among IT decision makers in corporations in Europe and North America shows that more than 70% of participants have experienced the failure of at least one business-critical IT project due to conflicting decisions that had not been known during the original planning process. More than half of the respondents (51.6%) have experienced this more than once....

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Four Seasons of Changes: How to Improve Organizational Change Effectiveness?

Being clear on the strategic imperative to change is important. The speed of change is significantly accelerated, however, more than 70% of an organization’s change management fail to reach expectation, what has your organization done to improve organizational change effectiveness? How should senior executives take leadership upon it? 1. Analyze the Root Causes of Change Failure  Resistance to change is often because people are unsure...

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EA/BPM Concept Clarification: Business Outcome vs. Process Output

Process output is more explicit and well defined, and far more predictable; the business outcome would be something more general in nature. Outputs are about flows, outcomes are about consequences. The business outcome would be a required service or product delivery; Process Output would be the result of any processing activity. The latter is a subset of the former. There are more perspectives upon this two business concept comparison: Outputs...

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How to Determine if a Capability is a Core Capability?

Processes underpin business capabilities; and culture nurtures capability coherence. Business Capabilities are the abilities to produce specific goods or services for the market, they “are essentially the learning processes that are embodied in the knowledge capital of a business organization. And core capabilities are integrated a set of capabilities contribute directly to the competitive advantage of the business.  1.  A...

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Five Key Factors beyond Software for Analytics Success

Analytics as a trouble shooting turnaround tool for business insights and decisions need to be positioned aggressively for the right kind of ramifications. Besides the effective software tool, what are key factors for analytics success? The whole concept of Analytic depends upon the DATA. The more the data and specific to particular domain helps lot in testing the analytic product and deriving results from that. Without the right...

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CIO as Chief Interaction Officer: How to Build Trustful Business Relationships

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. ~ Peter F. Drucker Modern CIOs have many titles, from ‘Chief Innovation Officer’ to ‘Chief Influence Officer’; from ‘Chief Insight Officer’ to ‘Chief Improvement Officer’, etc, but keep in mind  CIOs also need to become ‘Chief Interaction Officer’ to build a solid business relationship,  because nowadays, IT touches every key process of business and every digital point of customer...

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“I Have a Dream” Speech 50th Anniversary: Does A Leader Create Followers or Grow More Leaders?

Google is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the speech “I have a Dream” with a Doodle today, Martin Luther King delivered the speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The speech is still inspirational, energizing and thought-provoking today, to make our heart heavy and mind stimulating, after five decades, the progress has been made, but the march is still at the beginning..Should a great leader attract the followers...

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Connecting Dots between Business Architecture and BPM

Both BA and BPM design and deployment are not for their own sake, but for understanding, managing and governing organization better for achieving business agility. Business Architecture is strategic in that it gives direction to the business while BPM designs, manages and controls processes in the business towards achieving the target state of the business. There is certainly a connection between BA and BPM. Business Architecture is "what"...

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CIO Leading as the Conductor

The CIO needs to lead as a conductor than a constructor, in order to speed up and improve IT agility. Metaphorically, the CIO needs to be the bridge between the strategic goals of the business and IT. At the age of cloud, the CIO also needs to lead as a conductor than a constructor, in order to speed up and improve IT agility. A forward-thinking CIO will figure out a way to leverage the cloud to explore business options much...

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