5 Key Success Factors of an IT Organisation

From my observations in over 30 companies over two decades, the following are the vital consideration points for an IT organisation. There are of course more but I only look at it from sustained success and balanced growth from a 40 thousand feet high:

1. Governance: A well governed IT organisation with use of global frameworks like ITIL, COBIT, CMI etc will help drive the organisation.

2. Compliance: This is a key pain point for any C level IT professionals such as CIOs, CTOs, COOs etc. Each industry has their compliance requirements. Security is one of the significant ones.

3. Emerging technologies: Whilst the first and second keep the “status quo” for smooth run of an organisation, focusing on this item will help stretching and keeping an IT organisation lively to sustain its market place.

4. Innovation: This is essential for every company to stay competitive. It is an ongoing activity like a heart beat or breathing for a person to stay alive. This is where your products and services add better value to others.

5. Diversity/Globalism/Collaboration. These are key factors for growth. Synergies are created. Rather than competing a collaborative effort will help us sustain our success together. All wins.

Based on these 5 key points, I would like to obtain your views on:
1. How is the IT organisation/fuction in your company governed?
2. What does innovation mean to your organisation? And how open are you to new technologies?
3. How diverse is your organisation? How do you collaborate internally and externally?

Your insights will be useful. We will be discussing these points in our IT Business Philosophyclub. Join us and keep yourself thinking and informed. Collaboration is essential for sustained success.

Future of the Internet and Web

After discussing the Semantic Web or Web 3.0 in my blog here yesterday, I thought it will be useful to provide the view of World Wide Web Consortium on future of the web.

According to the WWW consortium, the future of the web will have the following 6 characteristics:
1. Richer User Experience
2. Browse With Eyes, Ears, Voice and Touch
3. Web for Everyone
4. Web on Everything
5. Advanced Data Searching and Sharing
6. Trust and Confidence
You can find more information on each point from http://www.w3.org/Consortium/future

Based on these interesting points, I would like to obtain your views on:
1. Which one of these are important features in your opinion?
2. Which one of these will have impact on your business and society?
3. Would they contribute to the diversity and equal rights in information access and dissemination?

Your insights will be useful.

Are we ready for semantic web?

My topic is the next big thing on Internet or in fact in IT!

We have been so advantaged by Web 2.0 technologies. It changed the way we communicate and allowed what we called social networking. Wikipedia, Flickr, Youtube, Myspace, and Ecademy are some well known examples of its manifestations.
As usual, we need more and better, of course!

As you may have heard so far, the next good thing is Web 3.0 a.k.a. Semantic Web. It is expected to make the Internet like a single giant database. Siloes of web will be transforming into a single entity. Doesn’t that reminds us of something about spirituality? Oneness! Ocean of consciousness.

Now, what key features will Web 3.0 will bring:
Ubiquitous connectivity, open technologies, open identity, semantic application platforms, Statement-based datastores, Intelligent and embedded search utilities, Resource Description Framework are a few to mention. I will further discuss this in a new thread on my blogs in Ecademy. You are welcome to join and provide your insights. Any idea will bring us closer to Web 3.0 which we expect to be launched in 2010.

So I would like to know that
1. Are you personally ready to embrace Web 3.0?
2. What are the roadblocks that we may overcome with collaboration? What is essential to make it happen?
3. What do you expect the implications and impact of Web 3.0 to be on your business?