At a software company where I worked years ago our CEO called his product leads to a meeting. We sat at a long conference table, with hot drinks and ample …
How to Innovate Like Amazon
Gather together a group of publishers and booksellers and the conversation will inevitably turn to Amazon. The online giant has disrupted our sector on a regular basis with its relentless …
Developing Your Capability Architecture: It’s All About Being Able to Get Things Done
In the first article of this series, I discussed the current interest in Business Architecture that has been brewing in the last little while and also discussed some of the …
The Golden Age of Innovation and the Dark Age of Information Privacy
At election time, surveillance and anti-terrorism are quite rightly high on the political agenda. The EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not. However, for readers of this IRM blog, the …
The Art of Collaboration
For the last five years I have traveled this wonderful journey of learning Ryukyu Kempo Martial Arts. It’s an Okinawan, Japanese style of martial arts with a focus on self …
Strategy: Crucial Enabler or Tired Cliché?
Say the word ‘strategy’, and many people will respond with a glazed look and a sigh. Seen as a Dilbert-esque ‘corporate’ buzzword, people throughout organisations often disengage, seeing strategic thinking as something …
Is the Car Instrument Panel the Most Underrated Bit of Data Governance Ever?
I’ve used a car instrument panel pretty much every day of my adult life, and not ever given it a second thought. That is until this one went wrong and at …
Patterns of Strategy
Enterprise Architecture has always had a slightly unbalanced relationship with strategy. Often the line taken by EA is that its job is to follow strategy, to design, redesign or reconfigure …
Reinventing IT: How Strategic Enterprise Design Leads Digital Transformation
Enterprise IT is broken. Ask any person in “the business” – and to IT that means anyone else – what they think about IT, and you get a blank stare …
Themes from a Chief Data Officer Forum – the 180 day perspective
Time flies as Virgil observed some 2,045 years ago. A rather shorter six months back I attended the inaugural IRM(UK) Chief Data Officer Executive Forum and recently I returned for …