May 12·edited May 12Liked by The Management Consultant
These projects are low in the glamour stakes, a hard slog, and their value underappreciated. But untangling the technology into up-to-date, composable lego blocks to make IT change easier in the future, is a "no brainer" foundation to almost any company in an incumbent industry.
Is the goal to turn it the messy spaghetti into neat and tasty little tortellini?
P.S. Thank you for the shout out on your edited version of this.
This is really interesting, and having been on a long journey to nowhere in my organisation, I think I'd start by having written organisational commitment at the highest level to get this done. If it's the CIO leading the project, do they have the CEO or the Chair or the Board's written support to do it (even better all of them). Because if you have a BIG project that takes a LONG time to implement, and a change of personnel happens during that time, they might simply change their minds!! 😭
These projects are low in the glamour stakes, a hard slog, and their value underappreciated. But untangling the technology into up-to-date, composable lego blocks to make IT change easier in the future, is a "no brainer" foundation to almost any company in an incumbent industry.
Is the goal to turn it the messy spaghetti into neat and tasty little tortellini?
P.S. Thank you for the shout out on your edited version of this.
Conflicting interests I'm afraid. There are people that love tortellini, but still a few that like eating spaghetti (and not losing their jobs!)
That's where the reskilling comes in...
This is really interesting, and having been on a long journey to nowhere in my organisation, I think I'd start by having written organisational commitment at the highest level to get this done. If it's the CIO leading the project, do they have the CEO or the Chair or the Board's written support to do it (even better all of them). Because if you have a BIG project that takes a LONG time to implement, and a change of personnel happens during that time, they might simply change their minds!! 😭
Yep, this can certain happen. You need commitment from the top to pull such a big transformation off. Cannot deny that.