A Seat At The Table

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:

    • We should inspect and adapt frequently rather than slavishly following a plan.

Work in progress…