It was refreshing to read the Boston Consulting Group paper Gaining a Seat at the Innovation Table on the role IT has to play in business innovation. The paper rightly highlights the role the business side has to play in this. The focus though is on what the IT function should be doing. I particularly […]

Have a look at Avoid the IT alignment trap, an article by Bain employees Steve Berez, Vivek Gambhir and Amit Sinha. My reaction: I agree that IT-business alignment is not the solution. I also agree that an IT department lacking in engineering and operational discipline will fail to meet the users’ needs. But even IT […]

Interesting piece by BEN WORTHEN of wsj.com: IT Struggling? Put a Business Person in Charge. It shouldn’t be as that is what IT staff are paid to do. However it highlights how far the industry has to evolve for these Renaissance IT stories to become mundane Bell curve norm events rather than notable extremes. We […]