Archive for February, 2008

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