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“Mind the Gap!” Business’ Relationship with IT

Business users and IT (and other services) departments love to be rude about each other. Mutual incomprehension and worse frequently reign. What can you do to establish and maintain a healthy relationship and the high quality of service alignment? The gap between Business and IT has long been deep. IT people too often have little…

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Stealing a March: Using Innovation to Beat the Competition

CEOs have long seen the potential for technical innovation to steal a march on their competition. Some like Google and Amazon have consummately reinvented their industries this way. Achieving the goal is however desperately difficult. What could you do to define the vision, business model and deliver appropriate technology to support them? The Prize Strategists…

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Project Delusion

Projects have been running over-budget and late since the Pharaohs built their tombs. Since then, good practice has been published and qualifications have been established, so why do projects and programmes still go wrong? Whilst most projects slightly over-run, a significant minority goes catastrophically bad, even sinking their host companies. What can you do to…

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The Challenges of Integrating Service

There are many aspects of building a multi-supplier model that must be managed concurrently. This post focuses on the governance and operational conditions that must be established for successful Service Integration and Management (SIAM) and Systems Integration (SI). Not least of these is the skills and attitude needed within the retained governance. Transition No service…

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