I use to read Yves Caseau’s blog on which the author scans enterprise organisation issues, tries to identify appropriate optimisation levers, and tests models which helps to validate control efficiency. Involved in Enterprise Architecture which is expressed by organisation, Y Caseau has already identified 5 levers for organisation efficiency :
- meetings
- hierarchy
- matrix structure
- lean and mean
- competences
Should this list be closed or requiring new entries ? Although some people think that organisation is far less important than strategy, it deserves to be properly studied since without well shaped organisation it becomes harder to achieve a strategy. Basically it is Enterprise Architects message.
At a UK IT conference, a senior IBM analyst provided some clues on what IT services will become in the future which were in short :
- 70% of 2005 CIO budget was labour
- Operations labour will be 73% of CIO labour budgets by 2008
- Application development will decline at –10% CGR to 2008
- If this trend continues, there will be not development budget left by …2012!
The first one recalled me a discussion I had with a senior consultant in France who defended the view that the best IT performance indicator was staff number. By this time I was not really convinced since I expected that IT value might curb staff importance in the discussion.
