Author Archive: Peter O'Dell
Peter is the Chief Infrastructure Architect at Adaptivity. He has held director level roles in architecture, engineering, information security, application services, and infrastructure with Constellation Brands, GE, Microwave Data Systems, and has additional background in engineering and project management from his days with EDS. Peter has a B.S. in MIS from Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.
If you don’t know what you have, how do you know what to transform?
We’ve previously discussed the concepts of the Business Value Chain (BVC) and the IT Supply Chain (ITSC). Simply stated, the Business Value Chain is made up of the functions your business performs and the activities that support that business function – essentially, your demand. The IT Supply Chain is comprised of the applications and capabilities [...]
Category: Business Alignment, Datacenter Transformation, IT Management
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
Technology is not a Toy!
Ever known an architect or CTO that wanted every new piece of technology, every toy? The problem is that the toy box is paid for by the company. So, how do you separate the toys from the tools? Alignment! Aligning technology to the business it supports can be a difficult, and is usually an [...]
Category: Business Alignment
