We have a new essay published in Deloitte Insights, How industries evolve: Interactions, not institutions, drive disruptive change, a collaboration with Damien Crough from prefabAUS. This essay builds on the observation in The real landscape of technology-enabled opportunity. that disruption is typically the result of the accumulation of many minor innovations, rather than being driven by some significant disruptive innovation, by showing how industries evolve when the verbs change (how organisations in the industry interact) rather than the nouns (disruption of the organisations themselves).
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Three questions you need to ask
There's three questions you need to ask yourself before you invest a large chunk of cash in some enterprise application: Can I use something, rather […]
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Continue readingIs Salesforce.com already legacy IT?
The more I think about it, the more I feel that we need to rethink what “application” means. The IT industry – and therefore “application” […]
Continue readingThe myth of the inevitability of social organisations
In the rush for the new-new thing we’re confusing the means with the end. Business – as currently practiced – has been built around the […]
Continue readingHow to cope with an IT transformation
Once started, an IT transformation is hard to stop. Such huge efforts – often involving investments of hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars […]
Continue readingPlanning should not require a Gantt chart
There’s a standard slide in my bag of tricks which finds it’s way into a surprising number of presentations. It’s a simple slide, one allowing […]
Continue readingSome new rules for IT
The other week I had a go at capturing the rules of enterprise IT{{1}}. The starting point was a few of those beery discussions we […]
Continue readingThe rules of enterprise IT
As I’ve pointed out before (possibly as I’m quite fond of games{{1}}) the game of enterprise IT has a long an proud history. I’ve also […]
Continue readingDanger Will Robinson!
Andy Mulholland has a nice post over at the Capgemini CTO blog, which points out that we have a strange aversion to the colour red. […]
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