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• Real-world Enterprise Architecture trends
• 91 days ago
• This comes from Leo de Sousa, an EA in Australian Higher Education who asked the Shared Insights EA Network to provide ideas about what EA trends they were seeing. My take: leading organisations get EA and are figuring out how to link it to other important IT governance-related practices, but this is still a sparse community [...] ...

• On not being subservient, part 2
• 114 days ago
• Via Steve Jones, here’s another story that perfectly encapsulates the power of realising that a partnership approach between IT and business can drive real improvements in the return that you get from IT investment. In short: Steve’s associate (working in IT) found that a project he was responsible for wasn’t getting the business buy-in that was [...] ...

• On not being subservient
• 148 days ago
• One of the the themes that came up time and time again in our interviews for the book was the importance of getting out of the mindset that the IT organisation is in existence to blindly serve requests from the business. Neil M dealt with this one a little in his last post. And now from [...] ...

• Nodding about nodding dog alignment
• 170 days ago
• 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 [...] ...

• Two UK retailers decide to do without IT Directors
• 268 days ago
• Just saw this story, courtesy of my colleague Martin Atherton (co-worker of book authors Jon Collins and Dale Vile). Martin asks: are these companies’ IT departments moving from being “suppliers” to “slaves”, or from “suppliers” to “integral parts of the business”? My hunch is the former, given the retail sector’s on-off successes with IT ...