BlinkLane Consulting

Modern times require modern leadership styles and techniques. While Command & Control was effective in the industrial age, it is getting more and more obsolete in the brave new world where knowledge workers make the difference and business agility is … Read more

Recently I have read Liars and Outliers by Bruce Schneier. I am not going to give you a full review of this book, nice ones are already created for instance by Adam Thierer (Forbes). But it is an intriguing book. … Read more

There is a new way of thinking about innovation, also framed as the fourth era of innovation. In this new wave of innovation it isn’t the lone-inventor, nor the corporate-lab or the VC backed start-up that bring us new innovations, … Read more

One of today’s big management challenges is how to combine innovation with execution. Only by combining the two, organizations will be able to shorten time to market of new initiatives and improve responsiveness to changing conditions. On the one hand … Read more

Business IT alignment is over! Or expressed differently “don’t align what you should have integrated”. The added value of IT has become too important for organizations to not naturally integrate it in everything they do. That is why we believe … Read more

I’m very proud to announce that after training more than 500 IS/IT-managers, we are ready to go live by the end of october with two new exciting courses. Developed together with our training partner IIR, we provide a Senior IT … Read more

In practice I see very little or no business IT fusion. Fusion is the result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity. Have you ever seen business and IT joined together in to form a … Read more

Does IT create friction or flow? Over the past decades much has been written about ‘IT business alignment’ or ‘Business/IT fusion’ (Business/IT Fusion Peter Hinssen 2008). Yet still today many organizations struggle to align IT investments with business needs to … Read more

IT is underperforming. It is not living up to the promise. Regardless of who’s fault it was, or who wants to blame who, the ultimate end result: IT needs to be faster, simpler, better, more responsive, fit for use. Nothing … Read more

The old days. Hardware. Copper wire. Networking. Hubs. Routers. Men in tool belts. Mobile phones in leather holsters. Smoking filterless Marlboro in the server room. Those were the golden years of infrastructure. How times have changed. Infrastructure does not matter … Read more