Posts Tagged ‘strategy’
Making better decisions
TL;DR Decision making is at the heart of an organisation’s purpose, but it’s rare to see much effort being spent on improving the quality of decision making, and typical to see all decisions mired in time consuming bureaucratic process. We can do better, with a little coarse filtering, some doctrine and situational awareness, and a […]
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Tags: Agile, agility, data, decision making, decisions, doctrine, governance, loss aversion, OODA, strategy, Wardley
I spent the last couple of days at the Agile Enterprise conference in Rome organised by New York Java Special Interest Group (NYJavaSIG) founder Frank Greco. It was a much more intimate event that I’m generally used to, with only thirty-something attendees. The best part was the ‘ask me anything’ panel of all the speakers […]
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Tags: conference, ops, paas, Rome, serverless, speaking, strategy
My MBA
TL;DR I started out doing an MBA as it felt like a necessary step in pushing my career forward. The most important part was getting my head around strategy, and by the time that was done the journey had become more important than the destination. The motivation I’d not been working at Credit Suisse[1] for […]
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Tags: MBA, strategy
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Tags: architecture, consumerisation, consumerization, container, framework, html5, mobile, native, strategy, web
Styles of IT Governance
I had the pleasure of being invited along to one of Simon Wardley’s Leading Edge Forum dinners last week. Kate Craig-Wood did a great job of summing it up so I don’t have to: I hope to return to the questions of corporate irrationality in another post. The dinner was under Chatham House Rules, […]
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Tags: architecture, comparative, enterprise, governance, IT, law, principles, regulation, rules, strategy
BYOD
I’ve spent a good part of the last year working on mobile strategy, so I get asked a lot about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD[1]). This is going to be one of those roll up posts, so that I can stop repeating myself (so much). It’s not about cost (of the device) A friend last […]
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Tags: android, architecture, BYO, BYOC, BYOD, iOS, iPad, iphone, mobile, smartphone, strategy, tablet
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