As we aboard the subject of innovation you would traditionally find 2 groups of innovation: progressive and disruptive. Disruptive innovation is not standalone, it is shaped by a number of progressive innovations that at a point in time have a significant impact on a technology or a market. This is also valid for corporate...
In his recent HBR online Article “Social Media’s Impending Flood of Customer Unlikes” ( http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/09/social_medias_impending_flood.html?cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-marketing-_-marketing092211&referral=00212&utm_source=newsletter_marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=marketing092211 ) BRIAN SOLIS points out that “Brands are furiously creating profiles in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter in the hopes of building engaging communities with customers and giving people what the brands think they want.” “But are...
Within the current Cloud Business Model we would find 1) hosted applications to which we outsource data (salesforce.com is one example), 2) the external cloud (servers provided by a cloud provider outside the firewall) and 3) the internal cloud (servers provided inside the firewall). We have over the last 12 months seen 2 trends...
In a recent conversation with a CIO the obvious question of the peer se competitive advantage in the adaptation of the cloud was raised. As aboarded earlier the adaptation of the cloud (external cloud defined as owned/ leased (SAAS) applications, bundled in to services with an underlying architecture, that run on a server provided...
I have previously introduced “non traditional IT” notions such as ”Time to Market”, “Cloudsource”, ”Make or Buy”, “Cost and Demand drivers”, “An IT Business Model and Value Proposition” and ”An IT service Strategy”. Within this context I believe that a new notion and function will have to be instored, the IT department as effective broker of services...
I assume that most of you have heard the theory of the butterfly effect related to chaos theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect), not the film. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later...
A focus on Service Management and cloud computing would be a first logical step. But for these initiative to succeed the CIO needs to understand, how do we as Internal service provider: - Deliver services to the needs of the business on target in a “Time to Market” perspective (Business (IT) Value Proposition), - Conduct...
The IT Roadmap is critical as a communication tool (you do not want to present your IT Strategy as an activity diagram…) but needs to be “rolled out” with an effective IT Service Strategy supported by a coherent EA. The IT Roadmap spells out how do we support the execution of the business strategy...
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The authority of the IT Department can only be confirmed as it delivers cost effective services in a time to market perspective to the business lines in order to deliver to the set business objectives and strategy, to authoritively impose non adapted technology soltions on the business will not. The fact that we often...
