As a CEO of an organization, one of the key questions that will be constantly on my mind is how can I translate my strategy into effective implementation. Having been studying the topic of strategy for the last four+ years, witnessing how many large corporations implement their strategy, and doing it myself at work and [...]
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18 Aug
Enterprise Architecture – A Breath of Fresh Air in IT
For the longest time in my 14 years of IT career, I have this view that IT has always been deemed as a supporting role. However, in recent years, there seems to be an IT ‘revolution’ that is happening across the world. This IT ‘revolution’ is the emergence of Enterprise Architecture. For those of you who have no [...]
6 Aug
The future of an IT professional in Singapore
I have been an IT professional since I graduated from NUS in 1997. It is slightly more than 14 years in my career. In these 14 years, I have witnessed a dramatic change in the IT professional landscape and I have to say that the trend is going to become more bleak for us. Just [...]
18 Jun
The science of asking the right strategy questions
I was reading a book called the Seven Strategy Question by Robert Simons and it helped me came to a full appreciation of why we are constantly struggling as an IT department in NUS. It is a revelation at a very deep level. It is so deep that many of the heart ‘knots’ that exist [...]
