Computerworld UK "Burton Blogs: Executive Advisory"

Too much automation, not enough insight -- the redefinition of BI

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:13:00 GMT

I am working on my presentations for Burton Group's Catalyst conference "Forging Ahead: Navigating the New Normal" in Prague April 19-22.

If IT was king... but it is not

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:21:00 GMT

Maybe I'm just sensitive, but the recent McKinsey Quarterly article "Using IT to enable a lean transformation" by Nicklas Ilebrand, Tor Mesøy, and Remco Vlemmix was a disappointment.

Forget H1N1; focus on STS

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:58:00 GMT

There is a disease among us that I call STS – stock ticker syndrome. I experience the symptoms at least once a day.

IT organisational issues

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:26:00 GMT

It’s been a busy 2 weeks here at Gartner/Burton.

Business as unusual

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:20:00 GMT

In my last post I stated, "This is my first post as a Gartner employee. In the spirit of business as usual, here we go". Truthfully, this is anything but business as usual, and that is good. The New Normal is filled with business as un-usual.

Marginalising Enterprise Architecture

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:47:00 GMT

This is my first post as a Gartner employee. In the spirit of business as usual, here we go.

Gideon's children

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:55:00 GMT

By now you may know that Gartner has purchased Burton Group. This post is a perspective on that purchase, and not meant to be any way, shape, or form an official announcement of intentions, or any type of inside information. So take it as such.

Going barefoot, all over: The end of SOX

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:42:00 GMT

The Wall Street Journal had an interesting editorial commentary on SOX: James Freeman’s “The Supreme Case Against Sarbanes-Oxley”– about a supreme court case on the now infamous Sarbanes-Oxley regulations passed earlier this decade.

More pie for the masses...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:22:00 GMT

How many emails do you get daily? I remember when my response of 50-100 per day would elicit a “yeah, right…do you get anything else done?”.

Ravaging the industrial commons

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:34:00 GMT

Mike Rollings and I are guest posting to each other’s blog to give our readers another perspective – check out Mike's post on role reversal at the Application Platform Strategies blog here.)

Is the business result more valuable than "EA"?

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:12:00 GMT

Last week I attended the first meeting of Penn State's IST EA Advisory Group.

Enterprise IT trends 2010 (continued)

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:59:00 GMT

I posted a few weeks back on our three big trends impacting enterprise IT: (Externalisation, Consumerisation and Democratisation (ECD)). Each of our coverage areas will be releasing planning guides in the coming weeks that explore trends in their domains.

Programming languages and human languages

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:45:00 GMT

Sometimes intriguing stories come from unexpected meetings.

Globalisation - personalised

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:23:00 GMT

I am visiting clients in Europe this week, and it’s my first trip abroad carrying two passports. Yes, you heard right. I qualified for, and obtained, dual citizenship this past year, so I am now a citizen of the US and the EU.

Rigidity in process and the removal of human judgment

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:28:00 GMT

Richard Watson pointed out an article in the March 2009 Harvard Business Review "When Should a Process Be Art" by Joseph M. Hall and M. Eric Johnson. The authors state:

2010 Trends: Externalisation, consumerisation, democratisation

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:09:00 GMT

My blogging hiatus has been longer than Jack's, I'm afraid. One of the boons and banes of being an analyst is that you think in public much of the time. I needed to think in private for a few weeks, so took the month of August for myself. Consider it a mental vacation.

CIO types

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:09:00 GMT

I recently had forwarded to me a piece from Dimension Data. It was one of those marketing blurbs, highlighting their CTO. This is an excerpt:

What to do when waking out of an EA induced coma

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Architects around the world are voicing their opinions about Gartner's press release regarding a “new approach for enterprise architecture”.

Glory Days

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:14:00 GMT

A recent NY Times piece posited that the glory days for IT are over.

Gartner wakes out of an EA induced coma...

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:09:00 GMT

Here is a link to a press release about Gartner's “new approach for enterprise architecture”. I think they finally woke up to the facts of life about EA. Their seven properties show that they are just now realizing that centralized, top-down, autocratic decision making does not work. “Gartner said that enterprise architects must be ready to embrace the inversion of control. Where in the past, they controlled all EA decision making, they must now accept that that business units demand more autonomy".

The Twit Olympics

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:47:00 GMT

I am posting a series of short “What I learned during my blogging hiatus” pieces that maybe be thought provoking, and an indication of what is on my mind….

Apple owns the mobility market

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:35:00 GMT

It’s been a while since I blogged – mostly due to the Catalyst conference and workload. But in an attempt to get back in the swing of things, I’ll be posting a series of short “What I learned during my blogging hiatus” pieces that maybe be thought provoking, and an indication of what is on my mind….

Visualising how the brain visualises

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:54:00 GMT

I am fascinated by how the brain works! I have found that the more I understand how humans perceive, learn, and make memories that it opens new avenues to help organisations change behavior.

Questions

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:22:00 GMT

Homan Farahmand, in our consulting service, shared this with us.

IT value - we reap what we sow

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:20:00 GMT

How does your organisation define the value of IT? Many IT organisations have defined their value based on the ability to deal with complexity. Many times we pride ourselves on how much complexity we deal with.