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
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Nigel poses the intriguing idea that, while it’s perhaps obvious that different Value Systems are involved in something as intractable as a real-world peace process for example, and that they need to be identified and addressed in someway, it’s less obvious that something similar is going on with business change in organisations.
What if we were to pose the question the other way round, just for a thought experiment? Because... Continue reading
Perhaps the most compelling observations of the Externalization trend comes from Professor Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas Sate University. He created the now famous “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us.” movie which was posted on YouTube:
Here’s a link to a rather unpolished movie of Michael Wesch explaining ‘The Machine Is Us’. Badly shot and unedited but worth a quick viewing... Continue reading
Below is an excerpt from a post on the Capgemini CTO blog by Carl Bate. I think it’s a good summary of what we mean by Externalization …
“The second IT revolution is already happening -of course it really started with the Web - and perhaps is best formalised now in industry terms through the Software as a Service model.
But this alone describes a ‘how’ and doesn’t really express the... Continue reading
VPEC-T is more a philosophy than methodology. Think of it a communications and decsion-making aid rather than a prescriptive methodology.
Carl and I are regularly hearing ideas for VPEC-T based tools and methodologies from by practitioners and will post information about them if/when they becomes more concrete Continue reading
Please watch the slideshow here for a introduction to VPEC-T and download chapter one of LiT Continue reading