Comments on: Why Don’t IT Alliances Work Out? http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/process/why-dont-it-alliances-work-out The Premier Blog For Learning How To Become A Successful CIO Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:01:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Dr. Jim Anderson http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/process/why-dont-it-alliances-work-out/comment-page-1#comment-549 Dr. Jim Anderson Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:33:14 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/?p=617#comment-549 Simon: ... and all small organizations eventually end up trying to look like their big brothers. I've seen small shops actually go out and hire folks who have worked in the big shops just to set up processes that end up killing the company. Sometimes it's better to stay small (at least in your thinking)... Simon: … and all small organizations eventually end up trying to look like their big brothers. I’ve seen small shops actually go out and hire folks who have worked in the big shops just to set up processes that end up killing the company.

Sometimes it’s better to stay small (at least in your thinking)…

]]> By: Simon Stapleton http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/process/why-dont-it-alliances-work-out/comment-page-1#comment-542 Simon Stapleton Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:13:58 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/?p=617#comment-542 This is great research. What a surprise! But maybe not when I look at the organizations I've worked in. I've worked for some of the largest IT companies, and some small ones, and to be frank I have seen the small companies outperform their larger competitors because..... ..... they're more flexible, just as you say. Flexibility generally means adaptability, and recent months have shown that adaptability is something that should be treasured when best laid plans collapse. The worst situation (and have observed as such) when a small organization tries to play like their big-brother, that is, establish rigid processes through alliances without having the economy of scale to make them work in the long-run. It can (and does) totally kill an IT organization to constrain itself whilst it is growing, or adapting to an economic downturn. This is great research. What a surprise! But maybe not when I look at the organizations I’ve worked in. I’ve worked for some of the largest IT companies, and some small ones, and to be frank I have seen the small companies outperform their larger competitors because…..

….. they’re more flexible, just as you say. Flexibility generally means adaptability, and recent months have shown that adaptability is something that should be treasured when best laid plans collapse.

The worst situation (and have observed as such) when a small organization tries to play like their big-brother, that is, establish rigid processes through alliances without having the economy of scale to make them work in the long-run. It can (and does) totally kill an IT organization to constrain itself whilst it is growing, or adapting to an economic downturn.

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