Executive Summary Following the GFC – governance practices will almost certainly be questioned New governance requirements are likely to be introduced Historically new requirements are introduced reactively There is a risk new requirements will not add value We should anticipate these developments It takes longer for management to respond than for the board to ask [...]

The previous blog looked at why you would model but how do you choose or even find an appropriate modelling tool. In this short blog I do not propose to promote one modelling tool over another or even give a listing of all available tools. I am pretty certain if I tried to do that [...]

So what is a modelling tool and how does it work? Why would I pay big dollars just to draw pretty pictures that I may or may not use again? Why can’t I use PowerPoint, Visio, Excel? The answer to all these questions and more comes back to one thing, “Why do you want to [...]

So much of the strength of web 2.0 tools is the ability to connect and communicate that they provide to the individual. That’s right, the individual. So is that a natural conflict right there, with many of the objectives and policies in most organisations? When you look at how most intranets (and one could argue, [...]

Adopting the Microsoft ‘eat your own dogfood’ motto, I presented to our Frame partners on Web 2.0 yesterday. The focus of the presentation was whether business really needs to take notice of Web 2.0 – or Enterprise 2.0 – tools. Does the hype and activity on the internet translate to corporate environments? One of the [...]

Interesting article from Steve Hodgkinson in MIS Australia this month, on what’s new in public sector IT. He documents the ‘storms’ he sees coming in public sector IT.  There are eight in total, but it is interesting to see two in particular: Collaboration and content management, and Enterprise 2.0. The first is about providing better, [...]

It’s the old ‘what am I buying when I go to the hardware’ example. I might look like I’m buying a drill, but what I’m really purchasing is a ‘drilled hole’. Blogs are a bit like that.  And your company implementation might fail if you don’t address why they are really being used, and what [...]

For any organisation considering an Enterprise 2.0 implementation, we recommend you first understand the conversation that is going on. Years ago, in another time and place, I had a meeting with a marketing director. With a growing sense of disbelief he went around the table of product managers, asking them for a particular input. When [...]

By now you will probably have read or watched Obama’s speech, if indeed you didn’t stay up and watch it. Obama is a talented orator, and with good copy his speeches are moving, inspirational, interesting and uplifting. So how good was his inauguration speech? That’s up to you to decide. There has been some discussion [...]

We are a strategic and business consulting group. New name, but we have been around for a while. We provide services to our clients in four areas: business process management to drive business efficiency, service improvement, and governance, risk management and compliance; enterprise communication and collaboration, leveraging enterprise 2.0 tools, to deliver business efficiency, enable [...]