It doesn’t really matter which which way up you put the organisational pyramid the statically defined, stable organisation is looking quaint and increasingly irrelevant.
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Business is like a train…
The following analogy popped up the other day in an email discussion with a friend. Running a business is a bit like being the Fat […]
Continue readingBPM is not a programming challenge
Get a few beers into a group of developers these days and it’s not uncommon for the complaints to start flowing about BPM (Business Process […]
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. […]
Continue readingConsulting doesn’t work any more. We need to reinvent it.
What does it mean to be in consulting these days? The consulting model that’s evolved over the last 30 – 50 years seems to be […]
Continue readingOne of the only two sources of sustainable competitive advantage available to us today
I stumbled onto a somewhat interesting post over at HBR, which talks Garry Kasparov’s ideas in the business world. This is actually quite a relevant […]
Continue readingIs “agile enterprise IT” an oxymoron?
Have we managed to design agility out of enterprise IT? Are the two now incompatible? Our decision to measure IT purely in terms of cost […]
Continue readingWe can be our own worst enemy
The only certainties in life are death and taxes, or so we’ve been told on numerous occasions. I’d like to add “change” to the list. […]
Continue readingThe Boundaryless Value-Chain
I’ve uploaded another presentation to SlideShare. (Still trying to work through the backlog.) This is something that I had been doing logistics companies and a […]
Continue readingInside vs. Outside
As Andy Mullholland pointed out in a recent post, all too often we manage our businesses by looking out the rear window to see where […]
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