The next time your senior management talk about business-IT alignment, highlight the fact that alignment implies that the IT function needs to be a well behaved supplier, as opposed to a badly behaved one. Pushing the alignment agenda will guarantee that your IT function will: Remain a victim of business strategy. Continue to take a […]
Happy New Year to one and all. I have been somewhat remiss in my blogging output. Oddly no one has complained(!). You may be interested to know that I am chairing European CIO in Cannes this April and am looking forward to meeting some of Europe’s most impressive CIOs again. I had a lot of […]
What’s more important? This applies whether you are a CIO with c-suite aspirations or a service provider looking to sell big-ticket. Logic says relevance. Heart says intimacy. Intimacy without relevance throws up a value question mark. Relevance without intimacy suggests trust has yet to be established. So both are needed. But if I had to […]
First we have Accenture, one of the most agile and well managed brands in the IT sector. Then we have Tiger Woods, the face of Accenture, hovering over passport control at Heathrow contemplating what he would do next. Tiger being the personification of Accenture's values became a problem for the IT service provider. Given what […]