Research shows that mapping a company’s Enterprise Architecture for senior executives is the first step in delivering more value from its IT investment.
03.2.12 | Management, Organisation, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Prof. Joe Peppard
02.14.12 | Management, Organisation, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Prof. Joe Peppard outlines the gap between Information Services and Information Technology, and the push-pull tension with business technology
02.12.12 | Innovation, Management, Organisation, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Done well, they can mean the difference between success and failure of IT projects. Done poorly, they can lead to failure, “delusional optimism” and even hamper IT’s room to innovate. The comments came from Prof. Joe Peppard at an Irish Computer Society (@IrishCompSoc) talk on Building the Business Case for IT Investments. A well-done business [...]
02.27.11 | Management, Organisation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
That work can be frustrating or annoying goes without saying. That we can do something about it often seems like a forlorn hope. Great advice on how to maintain your sanity comes from Josh Klein (@joshuaklein) and Bill Jensen (@simpletonbill) in Hacking Work — Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results. “Just two guys who have [...]
01.31.11 | Fun stuff, Innovation, Personal Effectiveness, Technology | John P. Muldoon
IT needs to move away from being an “order taker” and move towards continually selling itself business-wide if it is to succeed in driving innovation, according to Prof. Joe Peppard. Director of Cranfield University’s IT Leadership Program, Peppard was speaking at yesterday’s Irish Computer Society’s (@irishcompsoc) lecture on how to drive Business Innovation with IT. [...]
01.29.11 | Innovation, Management, Technology | John P. Muldoon
A few weeks ago, veteran political commentator Vincent Browne (@vincentbrowne) spoke of the “practiced helplessness” of Irish men. In his article he said men fail to do the most basic tasks around the house and described it as: That learnt inability to do the most basic chores, an incapacity to cook, to clean-up, to change [...]
01.10.11 | Management, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Are we butlers or entrepreneurs in corporate IT? Or do we fall somewhere in between? Personally, I’d prefer to be an entrepreneur but, more often than not, feel closer to being a butler than I’d like to be. The butler and entrepreneur are two of the four types of IT within organizations, according to Susan [...]
07.1.10 | Management, Organisation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Well, that was the last of Prof. Joe Peppard’s three-lecture CIO Masterclass at the Irish Computer Society (ICS). The final seminar was on “Managing Change In Large IT Implementations.” Like his first two talks, this one was less technical and more about how to manage change and the people around it. My account of the [...]
05.19.10 | Innovation, Organisation, Personal Effectiveness, Politics, Technology | John P. Muldoon
More excitement — politics and stereotypes — at the Irish Computer Society (ICS) this week. This time, it came in the form of Prof. Joe Peppard of Cranfield University School of Management. His seminar was Leading and implementing change in IT projects: Politics and the IT Stereotype. Engaging and informative, Peppard tackled the problem of [...]
05.12.10 | Organisation, Personal Effectiveness, Politics, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
