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Thoughts on business architecture, technology strategy, project delivery, and helping organizations move difficult initiatives forward.
Years ago, I asked a business leader who was responsible for several subsidiary companies a simple question: “What is your strategy for these two companies?” Her answer came…
A strategy meeting or presentation can feel inspiring while everyone is in the room, receptive to the ideas and agreeing on the direction, but that feeling usually fades…
Jim Collins is credited with the business flywheel concept. In Good to Great, Collins describes the image of a massive flywheel that takes enormous effort to move at…
Technology roadmaps can be incredibly useful, but only when they are treated as decision tools rather than wish lists. In many organizations, a technology roadmap becomes a collection…
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”— Peter Drucker I’ve spent most of my career working with technology. Software development, systems architecture, business applications,…
One of the most difficult decisions in technology is deciding what not to build. That may seem counterintuitive. After all, technology teams are generally measured by what they…
I love whiteboards. No digital tool has ever been able to replace them, in my opinion. There’s something about that glossy canvas, the smell of those chisel-cut markers,…
For the grammar police out there, I’m well aware that grammatically speaking, strategy is a noun. But organizationally speaking, I think it’s much more useful to treat it…
An organization can have outstanding values, an inspiring vision, and a mission that people genuinely believe in. But that still doesn’t tell anyone what to do on Monday…