Achieving the Information Technology Promise Using Work Levels as the Framework

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Many of us can identify with the “black hole” label for information technology, i.e., the continual and escalating costs of IT, often times with no discernable benefit. With IT an increasingly critical part of an organization’s competitive strategy, it is important to manage the function to generate maximum effectiveness. Piet Calitz, managing director of BIOSS International, proposes that using the work levels approach to managing IT can generate improvements in its effectiveness. Too often, he maintains, organizations do not understand the complexity of the IT change process. Changes in technology often impact the culture of an organization, and the IT manager must possess a level of capability that allows him/her to manage the cultural change.

Major organizations and consulting firms that provide Requisite Organization-based services

A global association of academics, managers, and consultants that focuses on spreading RO implementation practices and encouraging their use
Dr. Gerry Kraines, the firms principal, combines Harry Levinson's leadership frameworks with Elliott Jaques's Requisite Organization. He worked closely with Jaques over many years, has trained more managers in these methods than anyone else in the field, and has developed a comprehensive RO-based software for client firms.
Former RO-experienced CEO, Ron Harding, provides coaching to CEOs of start-ups and small and medium-size companies that are exploring their own use of RO concepts.  His role is limited, temporary and coordinated with the RO-based consultant working with the organization
Founded by Gillian Stamp, one of Jaques's colleagues at Brunel, the firm modified Jaques;s work-levels, developed the Career Path Appreciation method, and has grown to several hundred certified assessors in aligned consulting firms world-wide recently expanding to include organization design