A Seat At The Table
Nov 3, 2022
Highlights from Mark Schwartz book
Nov 3, 2022
Highlights from Mark Schwartz book
CIO should lead enterprise in seizing opportunities to create business value through technology.
We have locked ourselve into a frame of reference that hinders agility (e.g. projects).
The business value of IT is the intangible asset of the Enterprise Architecture, which has immediate value and latent value.
IT delivery is about making incremental adjustments to that asset.
We need to promote a different approach to uncertainty and risk.
Enterprises are Complex Adaptive Systems, which we need to navigate through with an inspect-and-adapt, feedback-driven approach given the complexity.
Software is pliable, allowing us to test our assumptions at relatively low cost.
A CIO should guide the enterprise in its use of technology and information assets.
IT and the business relationship characterised by ‘arms-length, contractor, command-control model’. No part of the enterprise should be at arms length!
IT is the business. The business it IT.
The essence of Agile:
Work in progress…