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    Creating Organisational Clarity using a Semantic Wiki

    Vaughan Merlyn discusses a new way of creating organisational clarity by using Semantic Wikis. A Semantic Wiki holds an underlying model of the knowledge described in its pages, thereby capturing the meaning of the data within the wiki. Furthermore, they have the …

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    Empowering IT Organisational Performance using a Semantic Wiki

    Vaughan Merlyn argues that attempts to improve collaboration and support knowledge management within IT organisations have typically met with limited success. He believes that limitations with collaboration platforms are a key factor in these disappointing results and that a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach …

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    Establishing the Conditions for Change Success

    David Trafford discusses the challenges faced by those responsible for delivering change and asks whether sufficient attention is given to putting the necessary conditions for change success in place.

    It is widely acknowledged that only a very small proportion of …

    Published: November 3, 2011 in Leadership and Management, Transformation and Change
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    Strategy – The World of Choices and their Implications

    Peter Boggis discusses five questions that are central to the development of strategy. He argues that strategy is really about making choices that are impossible to reverse or un-do, and that the greatest risks to implementing strategy often rests in …

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    Creating the Agile IT Organisation

    IT organisations have changed, are changing and will continue to change. This is not in question. What is different today is the pace and significance of change, whether it is driven by a move to shared services, offshore development, cloud …

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    The Challenges of Horizontal Integration

    David Trafford discusses the challenges facing organisations that aim to be more horizontally integrated. He argues that whilst many leadership teams see the benefits of horizontal integration, they don’t fully understand the implications of the resultant changes and what needs …

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    Sustained Change Requires Mindset Change

    Peter Turgoose argues that change programmes will not achieve their intended business outcomes if sufficient attention is not given to changing peoples’ mindsets. And, as mindsets become embedded over time, it is important that we fully understand why they exist …

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    Improving IT Service Delivery

    One of the most challenging aspects of running an IT organisation today is improving the delivery of IT services. Not only is there the ever-present need to improve service quality and reduce cost, but the expectations of IT users are …

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    Dispelling the Myths about Innovation

    Peter Boggis discusses what makes one organisation try out new ideas while others are content with how things are. He argues that innovation can be developed as an organisational capability and the first step is to dispel the myths about …

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    Building Organisational Agility

    For most organisations, change is the norm: whether it is the integration of the latest acquisition; replacing legacy IT systems with modern integrated business platforms; outsourcing to an offshore provider or delivering day-to-day business improvements. As Heraclitus the Greek philosopher …

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