Enterprise Architecture

Where’s Wally - How to cure schizophrenic organisations – Pt 2

Where’s Wally - How to cure schizophrenic organisations – Pt 2

Last year I posted a blog ‘How to cure schizophrenic organisations’.  My proposition in that blog was that organisations, like sufferers of the neurodevelopmental disorders autism and schizophrenia; have an information-gating deficit i.e. poor processes for separating the information ‘chaff’ from the critical and important.  Everyone, from customers, staff to senior managers struggle to figure out what they should be paying attention to; and what to ignore.  There is information coming at them all at once, at the same speed, at the same volume.  It’s the information equivalent of ‘Where’s Wally’................

The futility of ‘Red-Flag’ IT Policies

The futility of ‘Red-Flag’ IT Policies

Many organisations have gone down the prohibition route by simply ‘banning’ attachments in emails or imposing impractical ‘red flag’ rules; so-called from the laws enacted by the United Kingdom and the United States in the late 19th century, requiring drivers of early automobiles to have a pedestrian walking in front waving a red flag to warn bystanders of the vehicle's approach.