Strategy

The challenge Transparency is one of the key elements creating self-managed teams and enabling people to make informed decisions in progressive organisations. Every single activity we conduct at work — recruiting, sales, accounting — is dependent on information processing and knowledge transfer. If we can tap into our collective intelligence, we can accomplish amazing things. And so it’s somewhat surprising how little time we spend on our information architecture — our approach to discovering, storing, and sharing what we know.

The question of how to integrate cloud service providers as part of the IT strategy is one of the tougher questions IT leaders are currently facing. In this blog post, I’ll outline our thought process and the conclusion derived. For the sake of this blog post, we’ll peruse the definition of “cloud computing” by NIST: “Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.

Service Management: Shift Left

Edit 2023-01-08 - this blog post was initially published on https://www.unic.com/en/competencies/experts-blog/2017/effective-it-strategy but deleted - I copied here for future reference: One of the key challenges in IT is that not every system is created equal. When developing services we try to harmonize the way we manage IT systems and the applications provided by them. However, we see an increasing tension between flexibility and reliability. Very generally we want agility when it comes to systems that allow us to work and collaborate in new ways.