Frank Buytendijk

I recently received a promotional email for a "masterclass" on business and IT alignment. The training promised answers on the following questions: "how do you know your IT strategy is aligned with your business strategy?", "how can you put together... frank.buytendijk

At Open World I met Ross Sharman of Knowledge Global. Based on standard dashboarding technology, the company has developed an extremely compelling solution that helps property managers (like office building and appartment building) manage consumption of indoor air quality, use... frank.buytendijk

This summer I bought one of those fancy outdoor kitchens, and it runs on gas bottles. I got one bottle as part of the BBQ, and off we went. After a while the bottle was empty, and I wanted to... frank.buytendijk

As you may have noticed, I am running this global survey for my upcoming book, at www.frankbuytendijk.com (if you haven't filled it in, please do so!). I have over 500 respondents already, and it is time to start to think... frank.buytendijk

Slowly but surely we are expanding the scope of the Journal of Management Excellence. Download issue no. 7 here. In this issue we discuss 'business transformation'. Business transformation has many different facets, and we discuss a number of them. Thomas... frank.buytendijk

(*) Warning. Contains Irony. It's that time of the year again. Running season. Every year I write in my blog on my jogging efforts. Yesterday I ran the "Singel loop" in the City of Utrecht ("Singel loop" does not translate... frank.buytendijk

One of the goals of a data warehouse is to provide a single source of the truth, as the basis of management information across the organization. Data is collected from various transactional systems, is integrated and aggregated, and made available... frank.buytendijk

Ethics is the philosophical discipline that studies morality. Morality is about what is fundamentally right and wrong, towards yourself as well as to others. I wonder how often 'what is right and what is wrong' is being asked in organizations.... frank.buytendijk

More than 8,000 attendees (mostly academics), 35,000 papers submitted, and 1,600 papers accepted. Amongst which a paper on 'scenario-based strategy maps' written by Pietro Micheli of Cranfield U, Toby Hatch of Oracle and myself. The start of the conference couldn't... frank.buytendijk

"Infrastructure is everything below the level I care about". For developers that would consist of the network and the hardware, for the CEO of the company, probably all of IT would fit under that definition. And given the fact that... frank.buytendijk

Recently I attended a presentation by a member of the board of a large insurance company. He discussed the "lean" implementation the company has gone through. Lean is a methodology aimed at continuous improvement, and it originally comes from... frank.buytendijk