Tag: strategy
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VMware strives to become the multi-cloud leader – Overview of VMware’s current strategy, etc. from the VMware analyst day.
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Another bank bites the dust. Three recommendations to wring opportunity out of this so-called crisis. – “Continue investment in critical modernization initiatives. Digitize your commercial banking offerings Create actual offerings for small and medium enterprise clients, inclusive of start-ups and scale-ups.”
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Two things infrastructure and developer tools product people ignore too much
Pricing determines your business model First, check out this post on pricing from Jason – it’s great! The two things I’ve seen infrastructure and developer tools product people ignore too much are: the need for customers to use the tool in minutes, self-service pricing as a feature and strategy driver. Sellers think of pricing as…
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What I did this summer, the PowerPoint
Cut the “what I did this summer” slides Flick through a typical strategy document, and you will often be impressed – awed, even – by the intricacies of logic and articulacy of argument within. Yet on reaching the end, you may feel a sense of emptiness. You go back through the document; there are justifications,…
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ChatGPT creates a digital transformation strategy for a pharmacy company – you’ll never guess what happens next!
Pretty long one below, but fun if you’re into exploring the potential for AI stuff to make work-life less tedious. In case you just wanted something fun, scroll to the bottom to see me become the victim of my daughter’s favorite joke. Coming up with a digital transformation for a pharmacy company Midjourney prompt: a…
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Publishing Versus Orchestrating
Publishing Versus Orchestrating You can focus on short term delivery, or long term delivery. Do you follow the Twitter drama day-to-day, or just wait every week or two to see what happened? Do you write an article in a day or two, or write a 40 page PDF in a month, 120+ page book in…
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_Working Backwards_, recent book on how Amazon runs.
Notes: central is thinking about product features, not business. The business funds the product, the customer value – it’s the McGuffin that you careful guide to being cash flow. The question here is to find other org.s that have adopted abs adapted the practices successfully, or not. the advice at the end is pretty straightforward…
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🗂 Link: The superpower to change one thing about Kubernetes
“It’s optimized for cloud native applications – those that follow the patterns that are in my book for example. That represents only a subset of the applications that our enterprise customers need to address. Our 2020 strategy is to broaden the definition of our platform. To be more than just Cloud Foundry, but to broaden…
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🗂 Link: Seeing Around Corners — a book review
A competitive arena, as opposed to an industry, is used as a primary lens through which to understand the world and therefore what the effects of a potential inflection point might be. Think of an arena as a definition of the setting where customer need connects with company solution to create value. An arena can…
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🗂 Link: What Cloud Vendors Really Want From Their Customers
How much a customer spends on an annual basis is absolutely an indicator of strength, both internally and to the market. It is also a clear indicator of being able to effectively execute to the often-publicized overarching objective of expanding the customer base’s portfolios of products over the course of the relationship and since inception.…
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🗂 Link: IDC Survey Finds Artificial Intelligence to be a Priority for Organizations But Few Have Implemented an Enterprise-Wide Strategy
An IDC “survey of global organizations that are already using artificial intelligence (AI) solutions found only 25% have developed an enterprise-wide AI strategy.” But: “More than 60% of organizations reported changes in their business model in association with their AI adoption.” Source: IDC Survey Finds Artificial Intelligence to be a Priority for Organizations But Few…
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🗂 Link: Build Your Next-Generation Business Case Using A Lifecycle
Too often, leaders think of a business case as a one-time checklist item. But the best practice — which will increase your likelihood of success — is to think of a business case as a lifecycle, an iterative process that involves many stakeholders and steps. This lifecycle has five phases: Source: Build Your Next-Generation Business…
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Link: Secret CSO: Amy Herzog, Pivotal
Practitioners need to be positive and intelligent enough to see how a whole system could work. But they also need to have this mindset of searching out all the ways that it could go wrong and what that looks like. Source: Secret CSO: Amy Herzog, Pivotal
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Link: CIO aan het woord: Sjoerd Blüm
The only assignment I have is to ensure that my teams get the job done. It is an illusion that I can or should be hooked one-on-one. My task is to put a point on the horizon where all those people move with their knowledge and skills and then ensure that there is an optimal…
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Fix your boring, but immediate problems first
When GDS started in 2011, mobile apps were that day’s special on the fad menu. Ministers all wanted their own. Top officials thought they sounded like a great idea. Delighted suppliers queued up to offer their services to government. We’ll talk about apps in more detail later. For now, all you need to know is…
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Programming your organization for loonshots
Here’s an an idea for a formula for figuring out how much innovation an organization will do. I never know how good math is for this kind of thing, but it adds structure to programming an organization to be innovative, rather than career advancement seeking: In organizations, the competing forces can be described as “stake…
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Maybe the legacy organization actually knows what they’re doing
Usually we’re told that improving IT means changing the old organization. I’ve been re-reading The Art of Business Value, and re-came across this, to the contrary: This way of thinking has always struck me as a little strange. Our goal is to deliver value, to figure out how to meet the needs that are determined…
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Link: Dick’s Tech Chief Goes All Out on In-House Software
“Don’t get excited about shipping a feature—get excited about when the feature turns into revenue and turns into profit.” Source: Dick’s Tech Chief Goes All Out on In-House Software
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Link: Accenture has ~$1bn left for 2019 acquisitions
Out of a $1.5bn pool for 2019. The deals align with “The New” — an Accenture strategy that pushes the company deeper into digital, cloud and security services. Source: Accenture Acquisitions: $1.5 Billion War Chest for Fiscal 2019
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Link: Digital, Strategy and Design
Strategy involves determining the company’s intent. Strategy is expressed in an understanding of the environment, an expression of ambition, decisions regarding the allocation of resources and plan of execution. Strategy provides a perspective on where and how the company will win from the inside out. Design entails understanding and expressing customer intent. Expressed in terms…