Aureus Arcus AdvisingAre you Plexecuting?
Plexecution was a term I first heard from the woman who ran the Program Management Office in an IT organization I led. I’m not sure if she coined the term but it was her way of asking whether we had done sufficient planning or whether we had launched into execution and then decided we really ought to do some planning. Now planning…
Do you have too many IT projects on the go?
How many IT initiatives should you have on the go at any one time? Not a simple question to answer but you need to consider the trade-offs between resource utilization and elongation of individual projects. Let me illustrate the consequences of poor optimization through a simple example. Let’s suppose I have one IT analyst at a cost of $100,000 per year. I…
What shape are your inter-enterprise relationships?
How do you line up with your key trading partners? Do you have a single point of contact between your two organizations, say a buyer or category manager and their sales rep? Or do you have much broader and more effective relationships? Business processes and the flow of money, goods and information can span one or more organizations. By broadening your relationships…
Does your IT Plan support your organization’s innovation agenda?
By this I mean how your organization uses IT to support its innovation agenda not how innovative your IT organization is in the delivery of its services — although that is important too. In IBM Global CEO Study 2006 Expanding the Innovation Horizon, CEOs considered three forms of innovation: Business model – Innovation in the structure and/or financial model of the business Operational…
Thoughts on IT Risks
I’ve found that IT risks can best be thought of in three high level categories (I’ve rather negatively called these failures but after all failure is what we are trying to avoid) Failures to invest Investment failures Operational failures impacting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and information systems Categories like these help us organize our thoughts but more importantly they…