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Grow and thrive as a technologist and a leader.
Our Vision
At Managing Digital™ we're at the forefront of digital transformation, helping organizations navigate the complex landscape of modern technology management. Our vision is to empower digital practitioners with proven, standards-based methods. Based in London and the USA, Managing Digital is a specialized consultancy with global reach.
Our Expertise
Digital Portfolio Management
We wrote the book. We apply standards that include our work to help you evolve away from project-focused IT management.
A product-focused digital operating model and Digital Product Portfolio Management disciplines create and sustain business value.
Enterprise Architecture
We are agile pathfinders. Our services leverage BIAN, TOGAF® and IT4IT™ standards that we are also actively involved in developing.
Align your technology strategy with your strategic operational, regulatory and financial goals.
Enterprise IT Management
We know how this works. Managing Digital's senior consultants have held significant IT leadership and technology research roles
We have hands-on experience planning and delivering enterprise technology solutions at scale in in Fortune 100 firms.
No Train Wrecks on Our Watch
Architecture, Design, Strategy and Governance are things that matter - not just in the enterprise, but in the world. Good planning and design bring delight to all.
We want to help technology leaders to do good by doing well. Successful technology initiatives drive strong engagement, financial results, credibility, and stakeholder trust.
Bad design drives results ranging from inefficiency to disaster.
We have seen train wrecks as well as triumphs at close range. We have the experience and expertise to help you keep the train on the tracks!
Our Leading Services
Strategy & Architecture Consulting
Standard Training
Live online or classroom based, individual and team options. Includes access to our exclusive document library and post-course support and advice.
Workshop Based Team Training
Live online or classroom based, with case studies tailored to your industry or company.
Leadership and Inspiration
Principal Consultant and founder Dan Warfield is an experienced IT strategy, innovation and governance leader. He has held leadership roles in Walmart, Lincoln Financial, IBM, DXC, FIS, CC&C Solutions and others. Dan is co-author of IT4IT 3, chairs the TOGAF Certification Standing Committee, and is co-chair of the IT4IT Core team of The Open Group. Dan is based in London.
Advisory Council member Mark Bodman is Senior Product Manager for CSDM & CMDB at ServiceNow. Mark is also a co-author of IT4IT 3. Dan and Mark are collaborators on new work in the area of Digital Product Portfolio Management that will be published soon. Mark previously held leadership roles at Troux and HP. Mark is based in Austin, Texas.
Advisory Council member Mike Fulton is an award-winning senior technology executive and educator, a co-author of IT4IT 3, an adjunct professor at the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University, a two time CIO, and has held innovation, strategy and architecture leadership roles at P&G and Nationwide. Mike is based in Columbus, Ohio.
An Origin Story: The disappearing $100 million
by Dan Warfield
Principal and Founder
Over the course of a single year, about $100 million was poured into a new IT system meant to transform the business. It certainly did, but not in the way we expected. The ensuing disaster became my guiding light in subsequent senior technology leadership roles.
The development team worked in secret, 1,500 miles away. According to them, old ways would contaminate the new ways if we knew too much about what they were doing. We were told to wait for the Big Reveal, a meeting where all would be made clear.
When that curtain finally came back, what did we see?
As the demo proceeded, questions were asked about mundane issues such as transactions per second.
It soon became obvious that the software was totally unusable: an inept, poorly planned catastrophe, the triumph of a charlatan.
When the project was abandoned, 13,000 jobs vanished as the company was forced to reorganize.
These human consequences of bad planning, bad design, selfish short-termism, pointless secrecy and poor governance have stayed with me, and guide my work to this day. If you think what happens in IT doesn't really matter in the real world, you're mistaken. It is worth getting help to make sure the rocket actually flies.
Why do people decide to do things badly, when they could just as easily do things well? We can help you see things more clearly and still come out on top.
Competent technology leadership builds organizations and enriches lives. This mattered then and matters today, especially in the big organizations that keep the wheels turning for all of us.