It’s time for a conversation about Information Flow Modelling and why it is so powerful in helping you to understand how your business works and what change you could initiate so that you continue to be successful in business in the years to come. In this blog post we discussed some of the new external […]
The road to digital transformation is dark and full of terrors…or so many would have you believe… It’s true that today’s organisations face more challenges than at any point in history, which will influence the approach to transformation. Understanding which are and are not important based on how they will disrupt the future is an […]
What’s Information Waste? How much is Information Waste costing your business? It might help to first define Information Waste: Information waste: resources that are being applied to low-value activities These examples will help to illustrate that definition: Information Supply Chains that support no Business Outcome– “we process this information because that’s what we’ve always done” […]
One of the most common responses I get when I ask the question “Why do you follow those specific steps in that process?” is “Because we’ve always done it that way” Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist whose work was central to the development of COBOL, is purported to have said […]
It’s a great question – why does it take a crisis to cut through the crap of decision making? Why until that crisis happens are people generally so resistant, so based in the current, that decision making around transformation takes an age? In a recent conversation with a government agency CIO, he suggested that off […]
Today, how you value information assets; the information that your business collects, creates, uses, relies on, shares or trades does not contribute to your corporate balance sheet? Your information has no financial value that contributes to the overall value of your business. Is it because of this that many organisations do not consider information as […]
Too many change projects fail Sadly 70% of all change projects in organisations end in failure. 45% are over budget and 27% over time. A whopping 56% of projects deliver less value than promised. And this is not a new phenomenon. Back in 2012 McKinsey & Company performed a study, in conjunction with the University of […]
As a guy that has been involved in many change management projects in organisations both big and small, I have often pondered why so many projects end in unfulfilled expectations and ultimate failure. Trust me, they do. Just Google “project failures”. Is it because the project management of the change was poor? Is it because […]
Having spent the last 7 weeks immersed in the world of Information Supply Chains I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ve been looking at IT challenges in the wrong way. I now find it incredible how easily the conversation about IT’s role in digital transformation seems to focus on the “technology” and not the “information”. […]
When was the last time your business celebrated an enterprise IT success? I don’t mean the ‘phew, thank goodness that project’s over’ survivor-style beer. I mean real celebration: ‘ wow, this is amazing, our customers are delighted and profitability is soaring’ It could be like this. If your IT experts and non-technical executives could communicate […]