Business-IT Maturity and Smaller Businesses

 
Someone sent me an email about my blog and the small business in which she works.  She wrote, “Level 2 sounds like my workplace.  It drives me insane that we have no in-house IT person. I feel that any business over a certain size should have at the very least a part-time in house IT [...]

Confluence and the Salmon Fisherman’s Secret

 My colleague Roy Youngman just pointed out to me what salmon fishermen already know - the best place to catch King Salmon (and other varieties) is at the confluence of rivers.  Turns out, where rivers come together, the conditions are ideal for salmon fishing.
I love the analogy - where the rivers of business and IT [...]

Business-IT Confluence

 
I’ve said before, I learn so much (perhaps most?) from my clients.  I’m out at Pebble Beach for one of BSG Alliance’s Senior Executive Summit meetings.  I’ve been presenting our research on Reaching Level 3 Business-IT Maturity.  Before my session, at the opening dinner, a client was asking me about my presentation, and as I [...]

Clues to IT 2017: When the CIO Owns More than IT

 
Since starting this blog, I’ve made IT organizations and the issues of driving to higher Business-IT Maturity the central theme (aside a couple of self-indulgent detours into the world of Rock and Roll!)  Even the blog’s title - IT Organization Circa 2017 - is meant to define my scope - what IT organizations will look [...]

Business-IT Maturity: Theory Of The Case - Part 2

I want to pick up on this theme as we head into the holidays.  In Part 1 I talked about the drivers that are impacting business-IT maturity - Universal, Business and Internal IT.  Now I want to look at some of the overarching principles I’m seeing in business-IT maturation.  The idea is that these principles [...]