Tag: organizational change

We’ve heard that companies must become data-driven. They must treat data as an asset, govern it, improve its quality, and make it easily available across the enterprise. Perhaps these pronouncements are becoming tiresome. But really they understate the change in how we regard data and compute and their relationship. IT has always overseen both data […]

AWS recently partnered with Harvard Business Review Analytic Services to understand the current state of agentic AI in organisations.1 The results were exciting and informative: While expectations are high, the path to value at scale has yet to be discovered. Outlined below is what we found creates the gap between appreciating AI’s importance and using […]

In my previous blog, I shared how to evolve leadership for agentic AI using familiar mental models. As a CTO, I’ve been thinking about the corresponding architectural shifts required: We need to move from building predictable systems to developing autonomous capabilities that augment teams. Based on hands-on explorations and working with fellow technology leaders navigating […]

Driving successful innovation quickly is a major challenge for many organizations, even in the generative AI era. Only 21% of organizations achieve their innovation goals.1 The typical concept-to-launch journey still takes about 22 months, and 82% of engineers say they’re “constantly looking” for ways to speed it up.2 Slow go-to-market timelines mean missed opportunities and […]

Organizations can bridge the widening gap between exponential technological advancement and slower organizational change by implementing three key practices: elevating operations through simplification and autonomy, energizing employees through curiosity and education, and envisioning clear business goals that connect technology initiatives to meaningful outcomes.

Software development teams have always struggled to deliver features within the timeframe that businesses and customers expect. A recent BCG study found that over a third of respondents’ internal software development projects were delayed. Late delivery delays ROI and frustrates everyone involved. Organizations face numerous challenges when accelerating software delivery, but one stands out for its outsized […]

One of the most common sources of org debt is the knee-jerk reaction. Every time something goes wrong, we immediately jump to create a constraint to prevent future mistakes. So we institute a new role, rule, or process. As a result over a decade or two, a one-step process becomes twenty steps. Or five different […]

All organisations are perfectly aligned to get the results they get. —Stephen R. Covey, Educator and Author My first blog post on untangling your organisational hairball describes six focus areas to increase organisational agility. The first is to be highly aligned. As the Cheshire Cat remarked in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “If you don’t know […]

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. —Tim Harford, Economist Read any contemporary article on organisations and within the first few sentences the word, “agile” appears at least once. Some articles suggest achieving agility with a new target operating model (TOM), […]

Many companies have found that a cloud center of excellence (CCOE) can accelerate their migrations to the cloud and broader digital transformations. These CCOEs take many forms, which is appropriate because each company has unique challenges to overcome. Nevertheless there are certain patterns and antipatterns for using a CCOE. In this blog post, I’ll try […]