Currently on my mind

Innovation - Why and how? What does "Data" have to do with it? Data & Analytics (D&A) - What do I need to understand? What do I have to do to become truly data-driven? What should I aim for? What do I need to get right? Top management anchoring and sponsorship D&A Strategy clear part of your Business Organization primed for D&A leverage Platform primed for D&A leverage Process and mindset The main barriers of becoming truly data-driven Lack of top management sponsorship and involvement Organization not fit for data excellence - misaligned visions Organization not fit for data excellence - not working together Excel used as primary BI platform Low data quality Too much waste - spend too much time on non-value creation Innovation - Why and how? In the fierce competition for the customer’s attention, you as a service provider need not only be relevant but stay relevant over time. You need to be obsessed by the customer experience. You will always need to unde...

The past year I’ve met numerous organisations suffering from outdated outsourcing strategies. Either very business critical areas or the entire IT has been outsourced. The typical symptom one meet from this are lacking support of new business strategies, a general lack of control of IT decisions, frustration due to differentiation of incentives and drivers between buyer and supplier. Also the vendor lock-in situation is common, leading to lack of gain of a healthy multi-vendor competition in terms of cost, skills and innovation management. In other words your business is getting hurt.  As a consultant in different roles such as strategic advisor, manager (Manager/Team Manager/Project Manager) or Enterprise Architect, I meet many organisations and people in many different situations; different cultures, different levels of maturity and different industries. However one thing they all have in common, they are all working with business where IT is business critical. ...