Won't the internet of things be marvellous. My fridge will tell Tescos that I am out of milk and check ahead that we have plenty of Ben and Jerry's available as the RomCom comes on the telly. It will even order a replacement when it (the fridge), inevitably becomes obsolete.

An exciting time for the internet of things. The Business Alchemist can't wait.

In the meantime we can perhaps consider the organisation of things. What is this? It's an organisation that's joined up and communicates in an intelligent way to effectively deliver, a bit like the internet of things. If mankind can make the internet of things, then you'd think the organisation of things would be a walk over.

If that's the case, why haven't we done it and isn't now the time to do it? Could business analysis lead the way? If so should we start at home? We have always claimed to be the link between business and IT; and work hard to join up with the business, development and test, but is this enough?

If you take a step back and look around your organisation, what opportunities do you see? We spend time looking at how we fit into the change and development lifecycles. Do we spend enough time looking at how we connect with other functions such as Procurement, Marketing, HR and Finance to name a few?

Spending time building the relationships, interconnecting processes and working out how to drive and communicate improvements can lead to real benefits. Not only reducing the time effort and cost to do things within an organisation but providing a much enhanced stakeholder experience.

So here is the challenge, if your white goods and other inanimate objects can build a beautiful simple and effective world, can we lead the way in building beautiful simple and effective organisations? Over to you.

If your interested in knowing your Organisation of Things, try the following websites:

Chartered Institute of Marketing: http://exchange.cim.co.uk

CIPD (HR): http://www.cipd.co.uk

Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply: http://www.cips.org/en-GB/