I’ve been sitting here thinking. Gene De Libero say’s I’m always thinking…not sure if that’s good or bad! What have I been thinking about? Lots of things…but as it relates to this post, I’ve been thinking about the one trait that CIO’s can improve upon for 2010. By improving this one simple trait, I believe [...]
Links for December 27 2009
December 27, 2009 By 9 Comments
How Passion and Focus Will Rock Your Career by Corbett Barr on Zen Habits Does Customer Service Influence Customer Service Ratings? by Frank Eliason on Time to be Frank The Most Important Job of the CIO by Isaac Sacolick on Social, Agile, and Transformation Everything is a project, even this by Scott Berkun on scottberkun.com [...]
What a CIO can learn from It’s a Wonderful Life
December 24, 2009 By 17 Comments
Image via Wikipedia I’m sitting here on Christmas Eve watching It’s a Wonderful Life. I just saw Clarence jump in the river to save George Bailey from committing suicide. George was despondent over his life and his business. He didn’t think he’d been able to do anything right with his life and within his business. [...]
Will 2010 be revolutionary or evolutionary for CIO’s and IT?
December 17, 2009 By 17 Comments
I ran across a press release from Progress Software, that I though worth sharing with my regular The New CIO series readers. Below, you’ll find an excerpt from the press release along with my commentary on these predictions. You gotta love December…always some “Top 10 list for…” or “Predictions for…” to read. Progress Software’s CTO [...]
Total CIO – PMO becomes cornerstone of IT executive leadership
December 14, 2009 By 9 Comments
Linda Tucci wrote an interesting article on Total CIO titled “PMO becomes cornerstone of IT executive leadership” that got my attention. The title is a great one…and after reading the article, I’m intrigued. The article discusses how Ogilvy & Mather‘s Worldwide CTO Yuri Aguiar is using the Project Management Office (PMO) to drive business and [...]
Improving IT Planning in 2010
December 12, 2009 By 5 Comments
Just finished reading Chris Curran’s article on CIO.com titled How to Improve Your IT Planning in 2010 – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership. Good article with some survey results that are very surprising. A snippet from the article: Diamond’s Digital IQ research, in which we surveyed 451 senior business and IT executives of large companies, [...]
CIO’s – Are you hearing your team say No?
December 10, 2009 By 16 Comments
In a previous article titled “Leading by saying No“, I implore CIO’s to lead their organization by saying ‘no’ whenever necessary. As I said in that article: Saying “no” is a powerful thing. No can mean rejection, disappointment, being wrong, being right and a whole host of things. The one thing it doesn’t mean is [...]
What’s your passion? Find out and Crush It
December 7, 2009 By 6 Comments
I asked “What’s your focus?” last week and now I wanted to ask another question: What’s your passion? I picked up Gary Vayernerchuk’s book Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion over the weekend and, while the book isn’t a great piece of literature, it does provide a good [...]
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