Upskilling Your Avengers

Upskilling Your Avengers

I know they’ve been out for a bit, but the last two Avenger movies are some pretty good quarantine viewing. Epic bad guys fighting well-loved good guys as they pull on your heart-strings—it’s some good stuff. Technology has improved so much; just take a...
What Story is Your DX Initiative Telling?

What Story is Your DX Initiative Telling?

According to Christopher Booker’s The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, there are seven basic plots. The Meta-Plot, Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, The Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy, Tragedy, and Rebirth. Now I am not going to...
OCM: Employ & Engage Stakeholders

OCM: Employ & Engage Stakeholders

In my last post, we discussed the Identification of Stakeholders. With that, you should have a better view of the landscape now, and it is time to start Engaging Stakeholders, or more succinctly, validation, and placement within the overall roadmap of an initiative....
When the Whole Process Breaks

When the Whole Process Breaks

Accurate data is essential to support a Digital Transformation (DX) project. It does no good to create ultimately efficient processes supported by huge IT investments if you still focus effort on the wrong things. For example, an efficient, paperless procurement...
Rise of the EPMO Paradigm

Rise of the EPMO Paradigm

Honestly, as most Star Wars villains and heroes tend to rise from the shadows or are catapulted to prominence because a pure and noble need has arisen, so too is the EPMO concept awakening. (Awe, come on! Who doesn’t love a Star Wars reference!?) This paradigm...