Delivering Irresistible

and Irreversible

ChangeAlan Mather14th March 2006

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otherwise known as

“Our (Your?) Company”

Introducing …

Cher Richard James Pryor Majors Blunt Jackson Cobain the XXXVII

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IT Sedimentation

(and, oddly, you find layers that repeat)

Any technology that’s around when you’re between the ages of 0 and 15 is normal and part of life

From 15-35, anything that emerges is new and exciting and a potential career opportunity

After that it’s simply against the natural order of things … until it’s been around for 10 years, then it’s all right really

Douglas Adams:

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Our (your?)

IT architecture

John Seely Brown was right – there’s no

“endism”

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Resilient Obsolescence?

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If at first you don’t succeed, Enlarge The Problem … The Hammer?

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Yes, Minister

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Is there an opportunity now?

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Delivering the Change – Our Approach

Pick a line – District, perhaps?

Paint the vision – for everyone

Re-recruit your people, bottom to top

No steering, driving only

Focus – pick things that will make early change visible to everyone

Engage partners allies

Plan ahead

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The Journey from A to B

2000 - LQ

2005 - LQ

2010 - UQ

2015 - #1

1995 - #1Client Server

EnterpriseArch

EmergingSOA

Thin Client

GridArchitecture

VisionReset

LegacyRetirement

Low Power

AssetFocus

CustomerExperience

KnowledgeContinuity

BigIntegration

Driven bydata

CustomisationRules OK

SOAIn Place

Mobile Solutions

Mobile Ubiquity

“Fewer, more reliable, more automated assets”

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Getting deep into the organisation

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Focus – Re-recruiting our people - Assets

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Focus - The Continuity Challenge

+ 5 -15,000 = ?

= 15,000 x 1 ?

2006 < 50

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Focus - The Experience

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Ally Difficulties

Global Local

Low Price Fastest

Late Order DeliveryTransactional Relationship

Innovation

Risk Opportunity

Always On

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Plan Ahead

Resilient societies are nimble ones,

capable of long-term planning and

of abandoning deeply entrenched

but ultimately destructive core values and beliefs

Nature magazine writing about Professor Jared Diamond’s book “Collapse”

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Making Predictions …