Finding the Value in IT

I spoke to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) in Melbourne and Adelaide in September. Fujitsu has now made available CD's of the presentation which you can obtain through the link from the title above. You can also get a PDF of a CEDA Australian Chief Executive Magazine which contains an excellent abstract of the Melbourne presentation by going to http://ceda.com.au/public/publications/ace/index.html and downloading the December 2005 issue of the magazine.

The next revolution in interactions

An interesting article from The McKinsey Quarterly that reinforces the need for organizations to fundamentally rethink their governance and management approaches, and organizational structures if they are to leverage their two most important assets: people and information.

Australia's worst-ever IT Project Failure?

Yet another avoidable disaster documented by a good friend of mine in Australia, Mark Toomey, in the November, 2005 edition of his Infonomics IT Governance Letter. As Mark said so eloquently in a subsequent interview with The Age newspaper, "...these disasters were preventable. But as the experience of Customs indicates, people will not learn from past mistakes. What is it about big IT projects that turns otherwise intelligent humans into incompetent nincompoops?"

Building business-IT linkages

A November 25th, 2005 Computerworld Canada article by Mark Els reiterates, yet again, that "there are no IT projects; there are only business projects". This is a thoughtful article which, again, raises the question in my mind "how many more books and articles such as this have to be written stating, what is to me, the 'blindingly obvious', before organizations get it?" Only when we go beyond writing and reading about this and actually take action will we come anywhere near to realizing the potential of IT-enabled change.