JT on EDM

An old colleague of mine, Vaughn Merlin, had a really interesting post this week When Strategy Becomes Continuous. It’s a great post and he makes three key points:

IT strategy is not the point – it’s all about business strategy.
Much ’strategy’ effort is not very strategic.
Strategy formulation and execution are too loosely coupled.

He then quotes [...]

Gary Cokins posted How are Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) and Performance Management Different? in response to my original post What’s the difference between EDM and Performance Management. Gary takes me to task for a narrow perspective on performance management and, to some extent, he is right. Too often what I see described as performance management [...]

Bobby Cameron came up next and begun by highlighting how little IT sometimes matters to business innovation – even innovative companies and CEOs don’t think of their IT in this way. So why is this a problem? Executives say one thing but do another:

Innovation is a “priority” but not on the executive team’s agenda.
CEOs talk [...]

Interesting session on the Mortgage Crisis next, subtitled “Implications for a Global Economy”. Joe Breeden of Strategic Analytics and Daniel Melo of Fair Isaac. Joe started by saying that this is the 3rd time this has happened in the last 16 years. And, as before, it’s not just about mortgage and it’s not just about [...]

After the keynote it is back to the other end of the MGM Grand to attend a customer panel on business/IT alignment. Amy Wohl is the host and she blogs here. BTW I may not finish the whole session as I have to go sign the book at the bookstore at the show. I am [...]

I recently finished Ade McCormack’s book, The IT Value Stack: A Boardroom Guide to IT Leadership. The book is aimed at a fairly high-level audience and makes a case for better integration, or “entwinement”, of technology into businesses. Ade can come across somewhat opinionated but he gives you fair warning of this right up front [...]

Pip Coburn gave the closing keynote on Naked Without My Data. Pip made the point that lots of people actually don’t want to get quality data – they want to hear what they expect. People are not acting like quality of data matters. They want the data that supports their point of view or conforms [...]

Allan Alter over at CIO Insight had this article on CIOs Rank Their Top Priorities for 2008. Across all categories of company it was interesting that the top items were:

Delivering better service to customers
Improving business processes
Contributing to the creation of new business strategies
Cutting costs

I don’t know about you but I can see how EDM can [...]

Charlie Bess had an interesting post over on the EDS blog that led me to this article in the November IEEE journal titled: Toward the Realization of Policy-Oriented Enterprise Management (fee charged). The article is by Matthias Kaiser from SAP labs here in my home town. He is doing some research with a group at [...]

I got an interesting email from Dan Appleton this week. Dan is a principal of The Capabilities Center and his email prompted me to blog today on this topic. Dan’s email introduced his perspective on how business rules, especially in the context of enterprise decision management or EDM. He and I are broadly in agreement [...]