You Know You’ve Reached Level 3 When…

 
Back in mid-December, I posted “You Know You’ve Reached Level 3 When…“   As the BSG Alliance multi-company research project that has been examining Reaching Level 3 Business-IT Maturity shifts gears from its research to its reporting phase, I want to revisit that headline.  Here are some ‘one-liners’ that are being discussed in today’s WebEx session [...]

The End of IT Strategy

I closed the last post by postulating that by 2017, IT strategy as a distinct entity with its own strategic planning process will be history.  Let me expand on that thought.
In the early-90’s I had the privilege to be a partner in Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation, in Boston, involved in many enlightening [...]

The IT Organization c2017 - Part 1

This blog has been active since mid-September, and thus far I’ve focused largely on a discussion of Business-IT maturity, and particularly on the so-called “sticking points” that seem common in mid-Level 2 - the halfway point between the earliest, tentative uses of large scale computing to support business processes and activities, and a nominal end-state, [...]