I heard the terrible news today that Matthew West has died. We knew a few weeks ago he was very ill, and you always think you’ll have time to say goodbye, but he was gone before I could do any more than send an email. In the words of Lorde…

Cloudy with chance of mud balls If your current enterprise architecture is a ball of mud, moving it wholesale to a cloud provider will result in another ball of mud, just one that runs on someone else’s computers. More “clod” than “cloud”. It’s also likely to be more expensive to…

[with apologies to Daniel Kahneman] Anyone working in a large organisation must be pretty tired of hearing “fail fast” in every meeting they go to. The principle is great: you should be able to try out new ideas, technology, and ways of working, in a low-risk, low-cost manner. It’s not…

So I did a blog about knots and the current state of enterprise software. This blog explains how our CORE product helps unpick that knot in a controlled, incremental way. Quick recap — if your organisation is big enough, and it’s been around for long enough, your enterprise IT will…

“We forge the chains we wear in life”, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth Why do established organisations find it hard to change ? Why do so many digital transformations programmes fail ? The consultants have an answer for this — it’s the culture. But it really isn’t, and…