Podcast on Business-IT Maturity Model

 
I’m very proud that Tom Parish, host and audio producer for the excellent Enterprise Leadership web site, invited me to deliver a podcast on the Business-IT Maturity model.  Just click on the blue link above my photo, or right-click to download the mp3 file.
It was a great deal of fun to do - Tom asked [...]

The “Unwritten Rules” of Business-IT Maturity

Following several consecutive posts on ‘improvement versus innovation,’ I want to take a shift of focus, and start talking about the tricky topic of ‘organizational culture’ as it relates to Business-IT Maturity.

Back in 1994, my colleague Peter Scott-Morgan wrote a remarkable book, “The Unwritten Rules of the Game.”  Having been both a student of, and consultant [...]

New Multi-client Research Program

I’m very excited!  At the end of this week I’m participating in a new multi-cient “future leading practices” research initiative:  Project: RLT - Reaching Level 3 Business-IT Capability.
From time to time I’d like to raise questions on this blog that I think are fundamental to improving IT capability in general, but also more specifically to accelerating [...]

Reaching Level 3: The Ambition Factor - Part 2

In my last post I raised the question from a real life consulting situation as to whether an ambition to reach Level 2 Business-IT Maturity is sufficient to really engage and motivate employees in what is undoubtedly painful change.  And it’s not just about enough motivation, it’s also about the proper end state vision.  If you [...]

Reaching Level 3: The Ambition Factor

I’ve been working with a new (to me) client on leadership development for their IT leadership group.  The company is large, complex and global, and going through a major transformation of their IT operating model.  A fundamental question arose in a workshop I was facilitating.  For a whole bunch of very good reasons (including many [...]

IT Leadership and the Level 2 Sticking Point

I want to address a controversial aspect of IT Leadership, and why I see it being a relatively common contributor to why IT organizations get stuck in the middle of Level 2 Business-IT Maturity.
Many years ago, while leading a multi-year longitudinal study of IT organizational transformations, the research team hypothesized that the leadership style and [...]