epilogue

What, I sometimes wonder to this day, would have happened if I had made Simon write down the things that Christine and Barry had said in our workshop?

There’s a side of me that believes, perhaps optimistically, that we could have come to a similar conclusion to Juliette and Graham. After all, we had five days and they only needed a few minutes. Or at least we might have gotten half way there and been better prepared for what followed.

On the other hand, we might not have triggered Juliette to reject the IT Strategy and start again if we had not produced it, or something like it. As a wise person once observed to me, sometimes the reason for producing something is so “at least we know that’s wrong”. So maybe we did exactly what was needed.

Who knows?

Juliette’s inspiration, and innovation, was to use the idea of a strategy for IT to achieve something much more valuable than a traditional IT Strategy ever could. The one-piece-of-paper strategy for...