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Basil Wood & Associates: August 2009

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Basil Wood and Associates. Improve organisational performance with world-class use of IT. Saturday, August 29, 2009. Leadership is seriously absent in governance. I gave a presentation to the NZ SAP User Group. Meeting this week. My topic was IT Value Management and my objective was to present the case for managing value from IT, rather than just managing IT, and to show the behaviours needed to achieve it and why this must start at the top. Exploiting the platform for profitable growth. Executive le...

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Basil Wood & Associates: June 2009

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Basil Wood and Associates. Improve organisational performance with world-class use of IT. Tuesday, June 23, 2009. NHS Gateway Reviews damn £13bn IT decisions. In Computerworld provides a link. These Gateway reports highlight many of the common challenges facing most programmes and provide valuable lessons, most significantly the folly of departing from best practice. From the very start, the first review. In 2002, and the subsequent review. The degree of business change not being reflected into the way t...

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Basil Wood & Associates: November 2014

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Basil Wood and Associates. Improve organisational performance with world-class use of IT. Thursday, November 20, 2014. Auckland Council's big IT blowout. The biggest headline in today's NZ Herald reads $100m over budget and a year late: Auckland Council's big IT blowout. An Auckland Council IT project considered key to delivering the promised savings of the "Super City" model faces a budget blowout of up to $100 million. Everything has been behind closed doors since which is a real worry. I don't accept ...

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Basil Wood & Associates: April 2009

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Basil Wood and Associates. Improve organisational performance with world-class use of IT. Sunday, April 19, 2009. Forging better ties with IT. I have just read Susan Cramm's excellent blog on Forging Better Ties With IT. She asks business leaders two very important and challenging questions. The first question is, "Are you a customer or partner of IT? Your answer will determine how effective your organisation can be in serving your customers. I suggest business leaders who answered "customer" are not:.

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Basil Wood & Associates: The Information Paradox

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Basil Wood and Associates. Improve organisational performance with world-class use of IT. Wednesday, January 7, 2009. The three fundamentals of the Benefits Realization Approach are:. A shift from project management to program management to produce clearly identified business results;. A shift from free-for-all competition for resources to disciplined, strategic portfolio management; and. The three necessary conditions are:. Activist accountability that includes the concept of ownership;. An industrial-a...

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Basil Wood & Associates: November 2009

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Basil Wood and Associates. Improve organisational performance with world-class use of IT. Thursday, November 5, 2009. A National Offender - The Same Old Lessons Have Not Been Learnt. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have released their report. On the The National Offender Management Information System (C-NOMIS) project. The Chairman, Edward Leigh, who has reviewed other out of control projects, most notably the NHS Connecting for Health Programme (aka NPfIT). The problem was that it was seen as an IT ...

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Basil Wood & Associates: July 2009

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Basil Wood and Associates. Improve organisational performance with world-class use of IT. Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Business Analysts need to address BPM problems. Written by Paul Harmon, highlights some problems with multiple meanings of the term Business Analyst. He suspects that most people really mean "Software Analyst", that is someone that stands between IT and business users, translating user requirements into software requirements. As companies focus more on business processes, they will need ind...

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Basil Wood & Associates: August 2012

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Basil Wood and Associates. Improve organisational performance with world-class use of IT. Friday, August 31, 2012. In 1999, the Los Angeles Times business staff compiled a list of the 50 people or groups who most influenced business in the 20th century. Douglas MacArthur and W. Edwards Deming were featured for their role in helping Japan recover from its post-war devastation: “the world's greatest economic recovery story.”. Emphasis on short-term profits – a focus on the quarterly dividend and the ...

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Basil Wood & Associates: September 2009

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Basil Wood and Associates. Improve organisational performance with world-class use of IT. Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Governance of Programmes and Portfolios for Strategic Success. Project management success does not mean project success. There is an important distinction:. Project management success occurs when the project deliverables are on-time, within budget and according to specification;. A research paper by Raymond Young, Paul O'Conner and Simon Poon, Goverance of Programmes and Portfolios for S...