The Cost Centre in the Corner
Ideas from the Corner
Figures, arguments and essays drawn from The Cost Centre in the Corner.
Figures
The Entry Point
Where technology is admitted into the strategy process — and what has already been fixed by the time it arrives.
The Commitment Curve
How the cost of changing a decision rises while the organisation’s confidence in it rises faster.
The Accountability Gap
The distance between the people who make a decision and the people who are measured on its outcome.
Essays
Decision Making · · 6 min read
Why the CIO is still invited after the decision
Being in the executive team is not the same as being in the decision. The invitation often arrives once the decision has already hardened.
Investment · · 7 min read
Your technology budget doesn’t tell you what technology costs
The IT budget records where the money is spent. It says almost nothing about which decisions made the spend inevitable.
Operating Model · · 5 min read
When “IT said no” isn’t the whole story
A refusal late in the process is usually a constraint surfacing late — not an objection being raised early.
Architecture · · 8 min read
The architecture decision you didn’t know you made
Acquisitions, deadlines and commercial commitments are architectural decisions. They are simply not recorded as such.
Governance · · 6 min read
Five questions a board should ask before approving a technology-dependent strategy
None of them are technical. All of them determine whether the strategy is executable.