http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/ Janne J. Korhonen provides insights into how information technology can be applied strategically to catalyze organizational change and responsiveness. Drawing from both theory and practice, he discusses agile enterprise and its governance. en-us Copyright 2012 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:20:36 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "When the ground rocks, structures must flex." The same is true for companies competing in today's turbulent environment, concludes a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit. In a time of impermanence, agile organizations re-emerge from the discontinuities of the business... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/01/when-the-ground-rocks-it-must-flex.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/01/when-the-ground-rocks-it-must-flex.php Enterprise IT Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:20:36 -0500 jannej In my previous post, I expounded upon Hoebeke's (1994) notion that work is vertically organized as recursively interlinked work system domains and postulated a link between these structural domains and the ontological domains of the Cynefin framework (Kurtz and Snowden,... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/12/work-systems-and-requisite-inquiry.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/12/work-systems-and-requisite-inquiry.php Enterprise Engineering Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:53:59 -0500 jannej Work is Organized as a Holarchy of Viable Systems In his excellent book "Making Work Systems Better", Luc Hoebeke (1994) develops a work systems framework that provides an alternative to monolithic, hierarchic models of organizations. Arguing that the 'span of... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/10/taming-the-chaos-is-a-spiritual-deed.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/10/taming-the-chaos-is-a-spiritual-deed.php Enterprise Engineering Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:51:00 -0500 jannej In my previous post, I put forth the general -- and trivial -- idea that the increasing complexity of the strategic context calls for increasingly sophisticated governance models. In the following, I will further develop the notion and outline five... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/09/levels-of-governance.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/09/levels-of-governance.php Governance Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:34:33 -0500 jannej Peterson (2004) identifies three basic value drivers of IT governance: service infrastructure, solution integration and strategic innovation. In service infrastructure, the value lies in IT operations and services that are delivered with maximum reliability and availability. It focuses on standardization... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/09/it-governance-is-contingent-on-the-strategic-context.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/09/it-governance-is-contingent-on-the-strategic-context.php Governance Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:30:00 -0500 jannej In my previous post, I discussed how a system must undergo a transformation to persist and to develop. As the notion of ecosystem resilience, introduced therein, may have remained somewhat abstract and elusive, I will here attempt to exemplify systemic... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/08/organizational-transformations-changing-to-stay-the-same.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/08/organizational-transformations-changing-to-stay-the-same.php Organizational Development Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:04:03 -0500 jannej Sometimes less is too much. Inexorably, at some point, the organization or logic of a system that has worked well in the past turns out inadequate in the face of changing environmental circumstances. The inherent limits of system resilience --... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/07/when-less-is-too-much.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/07/when-less-is-too-much.php Organizational Development Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:10:15 -0500 jannej In my last two blog posts, I have outlined a five-scale classification of system views and elaborated on the systemic-structural underpinnings of each view. As these systemic views are increasingly expressive and powerful, they also call for progressively sophisticated levels... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/07/requisite-cognitive-logics-in-enterprise-architecture.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/07/requisite-cognitive-logics-in-enterprise-architecture.php Enterprise Engineering Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:03:15 -0500 jannej In my latest blog post, I outlined a five-scale classification of system views and discussed tentatively how those system views would pertain to Enterprise Architecture. In the following, I will elaborate on the systemic-structural underpinnings of each view and relate... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/05/system-views-revisited-systemic-structural-underpinnings.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/05/system-views-revisited-systemic-structural-underpinnings.php Enterprise Engineering Sun, 08 May 2011 07:58:00 -0500 jannej Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a representation of the business in terms of its components and component relationships in order to facilitate business change. It mediates our knowledge and understanding of the underlying organizational system and focuses our attention to the... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/03/requisite-system-view-to-enterprise-architecture.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/03/requisite-system-view-to-enterprise-architecture.php Enterprise Architecture Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:44:08 -0500 jannej Information technology has traditionally been seen as mere "cost of doing business" that is "aligned" with business at best. As IT infrastructure has commoditized at operational levels and the business environment has become increasingly complex, however, the focus of IT... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/02/towards-business-it-confluence.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/02/towards-business-it-confluence.php Enterprise IT Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:00:00 -0500 jannej Counterintuitive it may seem, agility does not come with an abandonment of rules, but actually requires more organizational discipline. Mature organizations do things systematically, while immature organizations achieve their outcomes as a result of the heroic efforts of individuals (Harmon,... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/01/maturity-begets-agility.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/01/maturity-begets-agility.php Service-Oriented Architecture Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:26:01 -0500 jannej Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is touted as a "must have". Cherish it, or perish, says the IT analyst, as if SOA could be attributed some absolute normative value. However, SOA, as a technology, does not bring about business agility. In fact,... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2010/12/soa-not.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2010/12/soa-not.php Service-Oriented Architecture Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:15:28 -0500 jannej With the frantic pace of business today, value propositions and respective business models are in constant flux. The organizations need to reconfigure their resources dynamically and integrate them with complementary resources of their ecosystem. The strategic focus is back on... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2010/11/what-is-your-service-strategy.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2010/11/what-is-your-service-strategy.php Enterprise IT Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:27:15 -0500 jannej I came across and found great resonance with the June 2010 Harvard Business Review article titled "The Decision-Driven Organization", authored by Marcia W. Blenko, Michael C. Mankins and Paul Rogers. Based on a recent Bain & Co. study of reorganizations,... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2010/10/get-the-decision-making-right.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2010/10/get-the-decision-making-right.php Organizational Development Sun, 03 Oct 2010 05:38:35 -0500 jannej