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The Coming Culture Storm | CLAR[IT]Y

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Considerations from a new generation of IT leadership. The Coming Culture Storm. Every technology follows the Gartner hype cycle. With the explosion of mobile devices and their capabilities has come an explosion. In personal productivity. Mobile is driving down the transaction cost of “work”. On vacation? Need to report a pothole? And get to work. The application is clunky and violates the “ 3-click rule. 8221; all over the place. But there are hidden upsides to everyone using enterprise software. The ch...

Beyond Mere Measure | CLAR[IT]Y

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Considerations from a new generation of IT leadership. The game is always changing. The fundamental rule of the game is that playing the game changes the rules. This, of course, is a central concern to IT. No work is done in the business that doesn’t rely upon IT in some way. So whether the business flippantly decides to invest in better tools (this is code for a new enterprise-wide IT project) or carefully investigates what has happened (hopefully using the Balanced Scorecard methodology. Refers to as T...

The Art of Synthetic Simplicity | CLAR[IT]Y

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Considerations from a new generation of IT leadership. The Art of Synthetic Simplicity. Such as a carpenter or architect) and a topologist. And yes, there are applications for topology in the business. At least with a geometer, their work is rooted in familiar concepts such as distance and angles. Compare that with trying to discuss with someone who performs a chunk of their work utilizing homologies. Programmers, and database modelers all working to build ontologies. And other attendant artifacts. That ...

Viable System Model and Data Management: Practical First Steps | CLAR[IT]Y

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Considerations from a new generation of IT leadership. Viable System Model and Data Management: Practical First Steps. Approaching data management through the lens of the Viable System Model. For the first time may feel overwhelming. It’s an entirely reasonable feeling to have (if you’re unfamiliar read Trevor Hilder’s excellent introduction. I’d like to put together a scenario that we can use to walk through this. Let’s play pretend. Microsoft publishes a sample Visio. It to play along. There’s al...

Centers of Excellence and the Third Form of Innovation | CLAR[IT]Y

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Considerations from a new generation of IT leadership. Centers of Excellence and the Third Form of Innovation. The fundamental reason for implementing new software is to drive behavior change. We are driven, like it or not, to seek constant behavior change in the form of increasing technical power. This is something Martin Heidegger. Pointed out in his last interview. Often gets confused with improvement. To co-opt and repurpose a concept outlined in Michael Geoghegan. And Paul Pangaro’s. 8220;, there ar...