article thumbnail

CIO Blogs from March 2010

A CIO's Voice

Change Management by Mark Brewer. Licensing Challenges by Mark Brewer. Yes we can, yes we must: the ongoing case for IT/Business alignment by Peter Kretzman. Outsourcing–When it works, when it doesn’t by Don Lewis. Is Creativity & Innovation enough? The VolksPad by Oliver Widder.

article thumbnail

Fountainhead: Act Now! Top Opportunities for IT Transformation.

Fountainhead

IMO there is a massive opportunity for leading change-management organizations to work with IT organizations to help them assess and execute this transition. So Im a bit shocked that this era isnt a windfall for services providers who will help shepherd IT organizations through the change management process. It should be.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Lessons Learned: VA Cloud.

Cloud Musings

Failure to adequately address cultural and change management challenges associated with the cloud computing business model. If the new business model wasnt firmly understood and communicated throughout the organization with a focused change management process, success would be very difficult to achieve. ► 2010. (54).

Cloud 134
article thumbnail

Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

Fountainhead

Implication: change management, goal changes, departmental funding changes. Implication: need for change management and new organizational design. CIO roles will shift to governance & vendor management (perhaps even modeling supply-chain management). ► 2010. (10).

Cloud 187
article thumbnail

Fountainhead: IT-as-a-Service: Models for Consumption, Operations.

Fountainhead

A business mindset might also mean that IT will have to grow roles that sound like "service manager" "service product manager" and "client marketing manager" skill that IT will need eventually to acquire/develop. Oh - and the technology *roles* and *organizations* will change too to be consistent with the new model.

article thumbnail

How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 1 - Social.

Social, Agile and Transformation

So trying to "kill projects" in one step just isnt going to work and youll get wrapped up in many change management challenges. If you know that you had three business intelligence projects in 2010, chances are youll have other BI related projects in 2011. ► 2010. (14). Instead, I suggest doing the opposite.

Agile 100
article thumbnail

“Cloud First” Lesson’s Learned from ViON

Cloud Musings

This “Cloud First” initiative was a complement to the 2010 Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) , which was created to reverse the historic growth of Federal data centers. Keith: Agencies must also focus on the change management challenges they are sure to face.

Cloud 70