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Using Innovation to Drive Value in Enterprise IT
Stephanie Overby captured popular sentiment in a recent CIO.com article when she said, “IT Value is Dead. Long Live Business Value.” She picked up on a theme we see from more and more CEOs and business organizations, IT doesn’t make relevant measurements, and CEOs don’t care about IT’s attempts to align to the business; all [...]
Category: Business Alignment, IT Management
Leveraging SaaS to Get Over Enterprise IT Barriers to Entry
Cloud computing has challenged the way the enterprise thinks about running its software. The old days of identifying a need, developing software and deploying it on a server (or 1000 servers) is over. Now enterprises need to balance varied deployments and sourcing models. At Adaptivity, we make it our mission to help our clients understand [...]
Category: Cloud Computing
Adaptivity Announces a BluePrint4IT Product Blog!
Even though this blog (blog.Adaptivity.com) is chalk full of the opinions of some of the best thought leaders and architects from Adaptivity, it doesn’t usually have any direct information about our products. If this has left you wondering, it’s my pleasure to announce that we’re launching a product blog: blog.Blueprint4IT.com. This new blog will have [...]
Category: Blog Information
Cloudy Innovation – Part 2
A few weeks ago we discussed IT innovation, and whether the rise of the Cloud signals its demise. The conclusion of that post was that IT innovation is still a critical component to enable business differentiation, but it must be focused on areas of your business where innovation actually matters. In the time since that [...]
Category: Cloud Computing
Cloudy Organizations
A few weeks back we talked about the impact of cloud computing on IT innovation, and argued that focused innovation (on the right parts of your business where it matters) remains absolutely essential. Cloud, as a delivery model, really doesn’t change things much — it simply provides another, perhaps easier, way to offload non-core IT [...]
Category: Cloud Computing, IT Management
The 5Ws of the Workload
There has been a great deal written about infrastructure optimization over the past 20 years, and everyone seems to have their own slant on what should work and why. At Adaptivity, we believe in fit-for-purpose solutions. Not always the cheapest, not always the fastest, not always the highest availability… but always the right choice. [...]
Category: Business Alignment, Cloud Computing, Datacenter Transformation
Inflection Point: Accelerating Transformation
In our Inflection Point posts we dig a little deeper and take a hard look at the root of an issue currently plaguing enterprise IT by breaking down the problem(s), offering remediation approaches, and highlighting points of insight we’ve seen work with clients. Much of IT strategy revolves around aligning IT to business objectives. (Past [...]
Category: Datacenter Transformation, IT Management
Inflection Point: Business Platform Transformation Strategy
In our Inflection Point posts we dig a little deeper and take a hard look at the root of an issue currently plaguing enterprise IT by breaking down the problem(s), offering remediation approaches, and highlighting points of insight we’ve seen work with clients. Today’s CIO organizations face a complex array of challenges in managing the [...]
Category: Business Alignment, Datacenter Transformation
Does Cloud Foreshadow the Death of IT Innovation?
I’m sure that some have asked the questions in the past few years as cloud has matured from a vaporous concept to viable sourcing strategy for much of a business’ IT needs. What will I be doing in five years? Will I still have a job? Chances are pretty good that if you are asking [...]
Category: Business Alignment, Cloud Computing
Run IT like a Business; Manage IT like a Portfolio
In the first part of this series “Technology is not a Toy,” we discussed technology alignment to the business and the exposure of the tail wagging the dog syndrome. The next step is building appropriate levels of accountability and control…and it’s not someone else’s problem. All too often, we find organizations don’t have a [...]
Category: Business Alignment, IT Management
