Following a recent engagement, one of our PMs produced the lessons learnt details provided below. Often lessons seem obvious and we sometimes wonder why some basic stuff manages to trip us up. More importantly, not all lessons represent negative behavior or outcomes – there are positive lessons we can repeat.…
Cisco’s Windows VPN client is a decent bit of software in that it’s stable, easy to use and it does what it says on the tin. However, I found myself wishing for an alternative… and much fun ensued.
In a software company, deciding which one of a big pile of conflicting priorities to work on next is one of the hardest things to get right. And it is critical to the business: If your process for doing this works, you end up with products that your customers and…
The desire to be different in strategy is what creates sustainable competitive advantage.
Borrowing Michael Porter’s thinking from ‘What is Strategy’, (1996), successful IT departments will be those that can capture a unique competitive position. Porter goes on to say that “A period of imitation may be inevitable in emerging…
“Good company situation analysis, like good industry and competitive analysis, is a valuable precondition for good strategy making” (Thompson A. A, Strickland A. J, Gamble J. E. (2007). Crafting and Executing Strategy, McGraw-Hill Irwin., p.127), but like all things in life – ‘rubbish in, rubbish out’. Possibly the first thing…
In the world of IT management, strategy is important. Constantly changing circumstances requires iterative thinking to address the vision, objectives, capabilities and culture of the organisation. An emphasis on process and feedback mechanism, often dictates that the ‘doing’ of IT strategy is a mechanical process, procedural and quite possibly driven…
In my last two blogs we explored some hot trends and challenges facing us as we work to build a new market, as well as today’s Technology Adoption Lifecycle (TALC) and the ever growing importance of customer intimacy. Let’s now tie it together by using some totally fictitious and random…
I’m often asked to explain the benefits of automated vs. manual discovery, and what Tideway does compared to other players in this space. A good way to explain it is to think of how motor racing has evolved over the last 50 years.
If you think of a racing…
In my first post in this series, I wrote a bit about the trends challenging the widespread adoption of BSM, CMDB, ADM and others, and where Tideway and other companies are today in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle (TALC). Let’s expand on this a bit, starting by listing the constellation…
A recent survey of 8,000 executive released by Brocade revealed 60 per cent of UK IT directors and board-level managers gave the thumbs down to their firm’s environmental credentials. But only 37 per cent of them said they were personally concerned about their company’s energy use and carbon footprint,…
