Purpose
of this Blog
Today, the IT department is
in trouble. The business community is not satisfied of the IT department. The
role of the IT department is undermined. Corporate IT is a shadow of what it
should be. It is underexploited. Why? It’s all about the belief system. Do we
really belief that by satisfying the demands formulated by the business
community, their needs will be satisfied? Or, more importantly, do we believe
this approach will allow the company to prosper?
This blog focusses on a few
fundamental questions:
- How to get the most of IT? (this issue is not a technological issue)
- How to get the best “information component” in a company?
- How to make IT projects to succeed?
- How to implement successful information systems?
- How to move from an IT department lagging behind to an IT department innovating and driving the business?
We need to change our
belief system and to reposition IT within the company, redefine its role,
retrain people, develop really best habits and implement healthy methodologies
and finally develop a solid, flexible and manageable enterprise-wide
information system that suits the company , solves its information needs and allows the
business to function.
On this blog I present
explain issues, forces and tendencies, mechanisms that unfold and solutions. I
would like to emphasise five fundamental principles:
Five fundamental principles:
1. Corporate IT is about Information and Information
needs (not about technologies).
2. The role of the IT department is to develop the
information component of a company.
3. The IT department is one of the most critical
departments of the company.
4. The main clients of the IT department are (in order
of importance!):
a. The company
b. The whole business (set of businesses) & the IT
department
c. The business community
5. Competences in Business Informatics (the conceptual
area of IT, analysis and architecture) are most critical to IT department. (The IT department shouldn’t limit itself to
technological knowledge.)
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These principles are
deduces from basic logic. The issues the IT departments struggle with today are
linked to them. And of course, these principles do have consequences for the IT
department and its environment.
Audience:
Business Managers, Business Subject Matter Experts, CIO’s, IT Managers, Program
and Project Managers, PMO members, Methodologists, Architects and Analysts,
Software Engineers, ...
Subjects:
Business-IT Alignment, Business-IT communication gap, Enterprise Engineering
and Architecture, Business Analysis, Project Management, Requirements, ...
Enjoy.
Axel Vanhooren
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BY SUBJECT
The IT Department
This set of posts explains
how the weaknesses about the business-IT relationship and the presently
followed approach based on the existing belief system.
Various Subjects
About Consumer IT, Corporate IT and Business-IT Collaboration
When is aproject successful ?
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