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The #1 Cause Of Organizational Dysfunction

Nigel Fenwick's Blog

At some level, I see dysfunction in almost every client I work with. This isn’t something new. There probably isn’t an organization on the planet without some level of dysfunction. Perhaps a degree of dysfunction is acceptable or even desirable. But eventually organizational dysfunction reaches a point where it […]

If CEOs and CFOs measure the effectiveness of CIOs and IT on things like keeping the IT budget low, delivering projects on-time and on-budget and keeping the lights on, then IT will inevitably appear dysfunctional to the rest of the organization. If, however, CEOs were to measure IT on the same measures as the rest of the exec team, such as business growth, customer retention or overall profitability, then I would expect to see far less dysfunction with respect to IT.

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In Case You Don’t Appreciate How Fast The ‘Windows Monopoly’ Is Getting Destroyed…

In Case You Don't Appreciate How Fast The 'Windows Monopoly' Is Getting Destroyed...

In the late 1990s, a single technology company became so unfathomably rich and powerful — and so hellbent on dominating not just its own industry but a massive and rapidly growing new one — that the U.S. government dragged the company into court and threatened to break it up […]

Just when it looked like Microsoft’s vision of the PC as the center of the tech world would lead to the creation of the world’s first trillion-dollar company, the Internet came along.

And it washed over the PC industry like a tidal wave swallowing a pond.

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Facts and Figures

A number of studies have been completed that look into the success / failure rates of projects.  These studies indicate that serious problems exist across a broad cross-section of industries.  Below is a summary of some recent reports. Source :  McKinsey & Company in conjunction with the University of Oxford […]

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What Makes a Company Good at IT?

By ANDREW MCAFEE And ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON Organizations world-wide have placed a huge wager on information technology, spending an estimated $594 billion on computer hardware and software in 2010 alone. But what are the keys to making the most of this investment? What makes a company “good” at IT? There’s […]