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  • Is Your Enterprise Architecture Stifling Innovation?
    September.01.10
    Rethinking Architecture to Answer Competitive Threats to Your IT Organization IT organizations are under attack.  Right now.  But you either don’t know it or are afraid to admit it. You probably don’t think of your IT organization as having “competition.”  You are, after all, the sole-source provider of IT services to your business.  Aren’t you? The reality, however, is very different. Your business customers are exposed to a plethora of would-be competitors every…
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  • Are We There Yet? Aligning with Your Business (On-Demand Webinar)
    July.29.10
    Intimacy is not a word that is often used in IT organizations. But it should be. Almost from the moment that the first computer was developed, there has been a divide between IT and "the business." Technology is intrinsically complex and requires a certain type of (typically non-business) person to make it function. For a long time, this worked – the business didn't understand what was going on and didn't want…
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  • Becoming a Transformational Leader
    July.19.10
    The Four Things You Must Do to Lead Your Team Through a Transformation Leadership is something that, frankly, isn’t in abundance within most IT organizations.  If you’re reading this article, you most likely are already part of this exclusive group of leaders – because only a leader is constantly searching out ways to improve.
    Leading a transformation effort requires all of the leadership skills you…
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  • Creating Value Through Intimacy
    May.25.10
    How to Move Beyond Requirements and Toward True Partnership Intimacy is not a word that is often used in IT organizations.  But it should be. Almost from the moment that the first computer was developed, there has been a divide between IT and “the business.”  Technology is intrinsically complex and requires a certain type of (typically non-business) person to make it function.  For a long time, this worked – the business didn’t understand what was…
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  • The CIO of the Future
    January.24.09
    Susan Cramm of Valuedance has published a white paper entitled, "Circa 2015: The CIO of the Future."  It posits some interesting ideas on the future role of the CIO and is worth a read.  I'm not sure that I fully agree with all of her ideas about the future make up of the IT organization, but it is clear that IT organizations must move past "lights on" operations to become a strategic organizational asset -…
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CREATING ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY: How to Make SOA, Agile & Change Management Work Together to Speed Service Delivery
09/15/2010 - 09:15am PST
The Free Lunch Webinar Series , CastlePointe Presentation
Part of the "Free Lunch" IT Transformation Webinar Series

Business is moving faster and faster every day - and demanding that IT move with it. As a result IT organizations are moving toward new development methodologies, approaches and tools such as SOA and Agile to reduce time to delivery of critical business apps. But as these same organizations adopt IT Service Management principles, an apparent conflict arises pitting SOA and Agile against Change and Release Management.

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CREATING ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY: How to Make SOA, Agile & Change Management Work Together to Speed Service Delivery
09/15/2010 - 09:15am PST
The Free Lunch Webinar Series , CastlePointe Presentation
Part of the "Free Lunch" IT Transformation Webinar Series

Business is moving faster and faster every day - and demanding that IT move with it. As a result IT organizations are moving toward new development methodologies, approaches and tools such as SOA and Agile to reduce time to delivery of critical business apps. But as these same organizations adopt IT Service Management principles, an apparent conflict arises pitting SOA and Agile against Change and Release Management.

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