Lessons From The 1950’s, Real Transformation (And Value) Come From Systems Level Changes Not Technology Change

Traditionally technology has been used to automate and streamline business processes.  This started with mainframe based solutions that automated payroll or certain accounting functions, spreadsheets that enhanced and improved analytical capabilities or MRP and ERP solutions that sought to automate end to end supply chain processes and in some cases attempted to create an integrated whole.  What these solutions have […]

When it Comes to Value Execution Rules

I consider myself to be a strategist.  I love the process of determining a goal/vision, diagnosing the current situation, understanding the gaps  and working out a plan or an approach to bringing the goal to reality.  The best part of my job is working with teams through this process, supporting their problem solving and facilitating a joint understanding of the […]

Influencing Through Value Propositions

Value.  As I have mentioned many times in my previous articles the role of IT teams is to use technology to deliver value to their organisation. One of the biggest challenges to the delivery of IT value is that delivering value through technology is a cooperative act between IT and other teams across the organisation. While every team is dependant […]