Bob Lewis
Columnist
Bob Lewis is a senior management and IT consultant, focusing on IT and business organizational effectiveness, strategy-to-action planning, and business/IT integration. And yes, of course, he is Digital. He can also be found on his blog, Keep the Joint Running.
The hard truth about business-IT alignment
Building effective IT 101: Forget what you’ve heard about aligning IT to the business. In the digital era, IT-business integration is the true key to organizational success.
The dirty secret of data analytics: Culture of honest inquiry required
For far too many organizations, analysis has been corrupted by a culture of tweaking parameters to support desired outcomes. Here’s how to establish an honest path to data-driven decisions.
7 ways to sabotage your shift to agile
The drumbeat to implement agile just keeps getting louder. Here’s how to ensure certain failure.
10 lies CIOs tell themselves
If Achilles had been a CIO, self-deception would be his heel. He’d be sure business-IT alignment is tight, information security bulletproof, and all projects come in on time. CIOs set the stage for disaster by fooling themselves.
13 'best practices' IT should avoid at all costs
From telling everyone they're your customer to establishing a cloud strategy, these "industry best practices" are sure to sink your chances of IT success.
11 old-school IT principles that still rule
Technology changes rapidly, but beneath the buzzwords, the fundamentals of sound IT strategy remain. Here are 11 legacy IT tenets that still reign — when applied in their modernized guise.
10 steps to becoming a horrible IT boss
Good-bye, IT peers; hello, power to abuse at your whim
8 dark secrets of organizational change management
In the digital era, organizational change management is crucial to business success — far too crucial to be dogged by its misconceptions and false assumptions.
IT-as-a-business is dead. Long live BusOps
Thanks to digital transformation, technology is embedded in every business process and practice your company relies on. It’s time to take a tip from DevOps, and rethink the business-IT divide.
Digital transformation’s dark secret
Much of what passes as digital transformation these days is more cosmetic than foundational. The root of true change is deeper than you think.
The case against the ‘business-savvy CIO’
Being business-savvy isn’t a radical recommendation. It’s clichéd. These days, tech know-how and business smarts are inseparable when it comes to transformational CIOs.
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