RESEARCH PAPERS
Our research explores digital enterprise transformation, enterprise architecture and information technology. Each paper can be read here or downloaded as a PDF.
IT Workforce Attrition and the Delayed Dead Sea Effect
October 2026Why IT organisations recognise selective attrition only after the point of no return — a theoretical model developed separately for software engineers and system administrators in the Dutch market.
The Monoculture Premium
May 2026When standardising the IT landscape makes the enterprise more fragile, and how much to standardise instead — a closed-form optimal number of platforms, effective diversity, and the premium that consolidation business cases do not show.
The Federation Trilemma
February 2026Local autonomy, enterprise-wide consistency and speed of change: why an IT operating model can have any two, and why hybrid models sit in a middle that does not exist — a minimal model bounds the three goods and derives the three coherent operating models.
Six Things Called Digital Transformation, and Why Boards Fund the Wrong One
November 2025A classification of transformation types, the category errors that make programmes fail, and a key for telling which one you are in — six undertakings share one name, and funding one as another is a predictable cause of failure.
Carve-out Strategy: IT Separation by Design
September 2024Access on request. Contact info@nashua.nl to gain access.