Sometime ago Olga Warffemius reported on the Erasmus University Medical Center (EMC) program Enabling New Initiatives. Hans van Nes observed that the paper pushing paradox inhibits grip. What can improve grip furthermore?

Steven van het Veld, a well-known Dutch independent principal (enterprise) information architect, claims that companies spend more on their website than on their enterprise architecture. This statement seems to be in line with something else I recently heard: Organizations spend much more on their website than on business process improvement, while the Return On Investment (ROI) of business process improvement is much higher.

Together with my co-founder Hans Lodder I regularly discuss the level of interest you show in our Results2Match community blogs. Since we are not aiming to be bestseller authors, the absolute number a blog is read is not the measure for our “success” (although it is nice to be read by a lot of peers!). More important is that we do try to listen to our audience as to identify topics that seem worthwhile to address.

Resulting from a discussion around My IT Solution Checklist, the question came up if there is a pragmatic model to specify the business development stage in which the solution provider is in. There are many elaborate models to typify and qualify companies. But at Results2Match we like the simple and practical models. So I looked back to the many companies I dealt with over the years and derived a phase model.