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Bring Your Robot to Work DayTesting Synthesia video generationChatGPT: Write a blog post about Austrian economics and managementOld MWT Posters22 years later… without managers?Aware CardsTrying to Implement the Functional OrganisationIs it anti-Digital to be pro-Digital?Shifting to a Data-enabled Organisation – from I.T.’s PerspectiveMore capability-based planning goodnessThe Real Data Governance OptionsIs this the future of the CIO?Escalations and AutomationThe Battle ContinuesQuick thoughts on: Agile, Same as Waterfall?Another Example of Operationalised Brands: Burn Your Rule Book and Unlock the Power of PrinciplesWhy do we keep evaluating “IT Projects”?Yet another function trying to leverage it’s data and get c-suite attentionRe: A Pattern is no Best Practice Yet!The IT Department of the Future… doesn’t exist Data quality analogy – Prove you own your houseThoughts on The End of Information Management: Everbody’s ResponsibiltyWestpac Launches DatabankAvoiding the B.A.I.T. view of Business CapabilitiesManagement is a TechnologyThe Management MythThe Management MythMega Projects Redux: Projects, Programmes, and Work streams (Part 1 & 2)The No ICT Strategy OrganisationThe path from academic to mainstream – Cognitive biasGood examples of the “funnel” patternFree Henry Mintzberg!Is Velocity Killing Agile?Capability-based Governance and business architectureGetting closer to the future of the IT functionCapitalism Epochs and Pendulum ArgumentsMcKinsey on DigitalAmazon opens its first real bookstore — at U-Village | The Seattle TimesNine of world’s biggest banks join to form blockchain partnershipBest Google / Alphabet coverage I’ve readNow that’s what I call a pivot!Simple rules to direct your mobility spendWhat is the minimal thinking about strategy you should do before execution?Diet versus resource useExponential OrganizationsWSJ: Data Is the New Middle ManagerCustomer-focused?Boardroom Seminar – The Information Side of the Enterprise Design EquationPwC and “The Faux-Agile Enterprise”“Intersection” by Milan GuentherTypes of Transformational Change – How to decide?Labour curationStrategy Breaks HereBusiness Architecture as Foundation for TransformationSketching Information-enabled Business Transformation PatternsAre ERP implementations really business transformation?Artificial intelligence meets the C-suiteThe Lightbulb ConspiracyWhy We Need to Outsmart Our Smart DevicesBeyond the BrainstormThe Integration of DigitalInteresting Times at Westpac – Dave Curran, CIOCloud-First Policies vs. The Real Impact of CloudAnother example of Market-based Management: Kanban As an Economic Bargaining System for Portfolio ManagementIndustrialised Adhocracy and The Future of WorkRats participating the marketsMarket StereotypesThe Post-Productive EconomyWe’ve been Weird Al’edTelstra Whitepaper: Analyse This, Predict ThatComparative advantage10 tips for successful business intelligence deliveryTop-down regulation:Advocating better managersCRN : 10 technologies you need to understand nowWhat if Quality Journalism Isn’t? (by @baekdal) #insightsDefinition of a business capabilityInnovate or Legislate? (Spoiler: it’s the first one)Thought of the dayYour Princess Is in Another Castle: Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds“Innovation appetite” at the board levelAAN Weekly Q&A. Business Architecture and the cloudTechnology can change what it means to manageMan who introduced serious ‘Heartbleed’ security flaw denies he inserted it deliberatelyInternet of Things to revolutionise industry: GE – city, Internet of Things, cisco, ge, Rockwell Automation, internet of everything, Sense-T, mining – ComputerworldAnalytic teams need their own IT… but should they?Full Stack Startups… Re-intermediation(!)The Enterprise Information Management (EIM) CommodityEvent: Using Business Architecture to Enable Customer Experience and Value StrategiesInformation-enabled business transformation: Moving Beyond Information ManagementCustomer centricity – solvedOperating Model versus Data Governance ModelsCapabilities-driven strategy10 linchpin business performance improvement initiatives you should be running right nowThe future is getting closerPhotos: The 10 moods of Stephen Conroy – Photo Galleries – iTnews.com.auInformation Management in a Process-based Management ParadigmThe CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us – Jim Stikeleather – Harvard Business ReviewThought of the daySingularity – of sorts▶ Preparing for the “Pricing Revolution” – YouTubeNSW Govt blames IT systems for caseworker shortfall – Software – Technology – News – iTnews.com.auFlexProduct isn’t static; Anything that gets customers is marketingProgressThe year of capability engineering keeps on givingThe end of IT alignmentBusiness Capability Maturity Model – Simplified“Perhaps the flight of a single bird”Who gets to decide when to outsource?2013 – the year of “Capability Engineering”A lesson in non-interventionismBlast from the past: “Organisational Usability”Digital Transformation blog at SMSBYOD: Goodbye Simplicity by ConformityIt’s not all about people – it’s about respecting people enough to make the systems workThought of the day: English BreakfastThought of the day: Stand-up MeetingsIt’s not big data! (it’s complex events)A “comic” of collective nounsDon’t manage your data warehouseThe Resource Allocation Collaboration ArchitectureIs Your Management Team a Cartel?Your Organisation – Thinking, Fast and SlowThoughts on the MWT Competency CentreCulture Change is overrated, of courseThinking about “capabilities”Wastes of intellectual energy and / or time #2334512 years laterGovernance is politics in the same roomThe customer isn’t at the centre of everything you do!iCloud and the death of document-centric computingNice graphic, and sentimentCorporations – thought of the dayWhat a difference a decade makesThought of the day: Information management is managementManagement as a service, againInteresting approach to securityPoor IT and the boss that hates themMcKinsey notices that management models can be impacted by technology!Managing without general management at AppleArchitecture Versus Management?Draft article: Building an Effective Business Architecture and Metrics CapabilityHealthy information eatingChief Detail OfficerBusiness Architecture in the never-ending standardisation process of EAOne-Way Risk and Robustness of IT ProjectsNote to self: do ERP vendors benefit from the sunk cost fallacy and asset specificity?Ideal Realised Strategies and Enterprise ArchitectureGame Dynamics and Internal Market MakingDan Pink: Management is a television set (i.e. technology)What, if anything, is a business architect?David Heinemeier’s ‘Unlearn Your MBA’ talk at StanfordMotivationNote to self – innovationMobile video conferencing as a safe optionWhy can’t BI tools help develop effective KPIs and measuresInfrastructuresWe should probably all read “The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur” by Peter G. KleinAgile Manager on the risk of a Lean IT Financial CrisisThought of the day‘New’ to MWT – ‘business intelligence’ is bunkIT as business process standardisationBreaking down innovation accountabilitiesExplicit collaborationProject Managers Should Not Fear the Baseline | CIO – Blogs and DiscussionEaaS in AustraliaThe Professional MessConfessions of an aeroholicIT Outsourcing – How to avoid it or make it work for you“We glorified finance, we privileged finance, we even subsidised finance”Bad maths, accounting, and risk managementCory Doctorow’s ‘Makers’Technocracy and PoliticisationDes Moore on Central BanksManager veto and the management team cartelNo wrong way to slice the pie? (and do you even know?)Thought of the dayAgain, what is MWT?Thought of the dayNot what, howManagement is (and should be) boring!Comical EconomicsWhat would a healthy banker say about the the economic crisis?The financial system vs. financial institutionsGetting closer to Michael CostaMerlin Mann discovers Christopher Alexander, stops procrastinating, and fumbles a littleTRIZ as a pattern language for problem solvingDoes the enterprise architecture really ‘contain’ the organisation?Update to Enterprise Architecture WorksheetTraceability in enterprise architectureWhat’s good for Obama is good for General MotorsThe Enterprise Architecture Network Google GroupBailout readerEnterprise Architecture: ‘New’ to MWTMultisourcing disipline: ‘New’ to MWT‘Fit to govern’ in Australian politicsArchitecture as StrategyROI Challenge for Operationalising BrandsStructure of the MWT ModelContext of the MWT ModelTesting…Where is the old site / blog?