Archive for the 'VPEC-T Framework' Category

Welcome to the VPEC-T Framework discussion

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Recent VPEC-T related commentary around the blogosphere

Here are some recent posts that refer to VPEC-T - are there any recurring themes? Applicability to Enterprise Architecture might be one?http://tinyurl.com/6zqnr2

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Thanks to Walter R. Smith, Tom Graves and Charles Edwards respectively Continue reading

Roger Sessions Presents VPEC-T at the IASA Conference in NYC

“Every major discussion, from business requirements to technical design needs to include VPEC-T dialogue. The issues that are least comfortable to discuss may be the most important to understand”- Roger Sessions IASA Conference in NYC May 2008.

Thanks Roger! Continue reading

VPEC-T War Stories

Based on feedback and on reflection, I feel the practitioner interviews would benefit from an executive summary. So I’ve decided to try to summarise just three significant examples where VPEC-T was at the core of the project.
 
1)      Change Execution: The removal of a perceived IT barrier to the transformation of an international retail bank,
a.       Value: Very High (US$100m++)  - The bank recognised that it would go out of business if... Continue reading

An Information Systems ‘face’ on System Thinking

For those of you who’ve read LiT you’ll know the authors are fans of System Thinking . It was always in the back of our minds as we developed the VPEC-T framework and described Externalization and Adoption Engineering. Our primary focus with LiT is the improvement of the communication between business and IT - not to introduce a comprehensive set of techniques for executing transformations. But what we’re finding... Continue reading

Value Systems - fundamental to all IS?

During a discussion last night, a friend of mine sparked of a thought when he wondered if the VPEC-T dimensions, or something like them, are used by conflict negotiators working on such challenges as the Middle East peace talks. This got me thinking about the fundamental need to understand and then resolve or live-with Value Systems differences in any Information System. This seems obvious and intuitive when we think about a ‘Peace... Continue reading