Increasing Maturity by Reducing Complexity

There are characteristics of Level 1 and low Level 2 Business-IT Maturity that allow (cause?) the IT environment to become overly complex, and with that complexity comes high cost and low agility.  This complexity is a killer sticking point for getting to higher maturity. 
Let’s first try to understand what it is about the lower maturity [...]

Business-IT Maturity - a helpful lens for the future?

The Next Generation Enterprise (NGE) is highly (totally?) dependent upon IT.  A rich and robust infrastructure, user friendly tools, on demand web services, on demand processing capacity and storage space are merely table stakes for tapping the next generation of collaborative, social networking, and marketing capabilities.  IT organizations need to partner with business units and [...]