Element8 Software is a technology startup that offers a software platform called xpoint which helps customers deliver business change projects and programmes. This On the Radar briefing note follows a simple “ten questions” format, which we designed to provide a concise but thorough overview of a company and its products and services. We use this [...]
Posted on Monday, January 23, 2012 by adminNOTE: this post originally appeared as an article I wrote for CIO UK. You can find the original here. For as long as the discipline of Enterprise Architecture has been around, it’s been a slippery beast. Some organisations have embraced the practice and concepts, and have become ardent evangelists of its power to improve the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonEarlier this week I spoke at IRM’s BPM Conference Europe 2010 in London (along with many others, including Sandy Kemsley). This is a conference heavy on real-world implementation stories and comparatively lighter on industry trends and vision, and for that reason it’s always really interesting to explore. As usual, Sandy has already written up some [...]
Posted on Friday, October 1, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonIn the past couple of days I’ve read a couple of articles (“IT can’t be a service provider and a partner too” and “Run IT as a business – why that’s a train wreck waiting to happen“) that riff on the same theme: that the exhortation to “run IT as a business” leads you down [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonUncategorized
After an extended hiatus, we’re relaunching our podcasting efforts with a planned series of discussions focusing on the challenges and issues associated with software delivery processes and competence in enterprises. We’ve called this podcast series "Software Delivery InFocus", and it’s hosted by Bola Rotibi, MWD’s Principal Analyst for Software Delivery. Each podcast in the series [...]
Posted on Friday, September 5, 2008 by adminUncategorized
I just came across Steve Jones’ post, Nodding dog alignment – the perils of aligning to people not business, in which he points out the sad reality that many IT organisations which believe they are aligned with the business aren’t actually delivering value. Why? Because they are aligning with the wrong things. Instead of focusing [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 by admin
