Well, I have no real excuse. Yes, I've been extremely busy, but In truth I just got out of the habit of writing. The funny thing is that I miss it. But with everything going on it was easy to just skip it.
The good news is that I've been busy. It's been a wild six months and it has been rough on everyone. I've been fortunate to be working on a number of exciting projects and am looking forward to a productive 2009. But despite the fact that I've been busy and haven't taken the time to write anything down, it doesn't mean that there hasn't been a ton of stuff swirling around in my head.
Well, we're coming up on a new year and it's time I got back to it. So here we go. My goal is to get back to this with some regularity - I find that it really helps keep me focused and centered. I've also been giving a lot of thought lately to what it really takes to move an IT organization. A couple of my recent projects have been fascinating studies on the role of culture in an IT organization and has crystallized for me how much of what we do is really about people more than anything else.
I've also become much more focused on the role of innovation in IT. I've written in the past about subjects that flirt at the edges of this concept, but I hope to spend much more time exploring this subject in the next few months. I think that it's easy to fall into the process and efficiency trap and am very interested in how we connect to the other side of the value equation much more rapidly.
So in case anyone is still out there, stay tuned. Some good stuff (hopefully!) is coming!
