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Monthly Archives: May 2012

“Business Change”: Dirty words in Government IT

I have heard mention a number of times lately that the term ‘Business Change’ is out of favour in Government IT circles. And quite right too. Here’s why I agree…

The (now defunkt) Office of Government Commerce used to be pretty hot on Business Change. After all, it was the thing so often perceived to be the problem: a lack of engagement between technology folk and ‘the Business’; poor ‘Benefits Realisation’ and so on. But I think it’s more complex than that: there was something more fundamental wrong and it’s exemplified in the idea of Business Change itself.  I […]

162 slides of unmissable condensed wisdom on tackling the intractable

If you are struggling with (what feels like) a messy and intractable problem, it may help to take 10 minutes to read this absolutely excellent summary of the thinking around Complexity by Jurgen Appelo. For those involved with fixing the problems in Government IT, I’d say it is unmissably important. So …er …don’t miss it…

Complexity Thinking

There’s more of Jurgen’s non-Death by PowerPoint erudition on SlideShare. With thanks to information uber-Maven John McCubbin (and Richard House before him) for spotting this.