It is interesting that in many IT organisations “Strategy” has a bad reputation. In one organisation that I worked with there was a comment made that anything that was strategic would be removed the next year, whereas a tactical solution would still be there in thirty years. Continue reading ‘How should IT strategy work?’ »
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A question I have been considering recently is whether innovation is good for performance. If I was writing about business performance the answer would hopefully be yes – but I am considering IT systems performance. Continue reading ‘Is innovation good for performance?’ »
I have observed that few organisations really buy in to performance management until they have a performance problem. When an organisation has a performance problem they want to fix it. Now. A lot of work then goes into fixing the problem and then the team is disbanded or looses focus until the next performance problem arises. This reactive approach is not universal, but it is common. The approach is often augmented by a volume and performance test stage as part of the final testing, which is then inevitably squeezed out. Continue reading ‘Stakeholders in performance management’ »
