The Business of IT Blog has an article titled “3 Secrets That Oil Companies Use To Run A Great IT Department” that has some interesting insight from Sunoco‘s head of IT, Peter Whatnell. According to the article, Whatnell stresses that we need to make sure that we don’t “…waste a good crisis.” What he means [...]
IT Marketers – Five Reasons we aren’t listening
January 12, 2009 By 5 Comments
Paul Dunay over at Buzz Marketing for Technology wrote a post titled “Sin of Inclusion” that pointed me to some commentary on the IT Services Marketing Association (ITSMA) website. The ITSMA article, titled ‘Why Our Customers Aren’t Listening to Us“, lists five reasons that customers aren’t listening to IT marketers. These reasons are: Customers aren’t [...]
Links for Jan 11 2009
January 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Time for another round of Sunday Links. Enjoy! Cluecade by Doc Searls Seven reasons cloud computing works in a tough economy by Kathleen Lau on NetworkWorld From Mistrust to Cynicism to Corruption by Charles H. Green on Trusted Advisor Associates Look for Leadership at the Bottom of the Pyramid by Vineet Nayar on Harvard Business [...]
Love my Canon 5D & 100-400mm L lens
January 10, 2009 By 5 Comments
Spent a few minutes outside shooting some pictures of our ducks, geese and other birds using my new Canon 5D and Canon 100-400mm lens. Below is one of the pictures…click through to see a few shots. The 5D isn’t really new…its a hand-me-down from my wife who recently got the Canon 5D Mark II…she won’t [...]
Clarizen – A great Project Management tool via SaaS
January 8, 2009 By 14 Comments
I had the pleasure of watching a demo of Clarizen today. Well…watching isn’t right…I was watching as Gil Heiman, Director of Community at Clarizen, walked me through the tool. I really liked what I saw. Clarizen’s strength comes with the collaboration tools it provides to make it easy for project team members to work together, [...]
Leading IT Transformation
January 7, 2009 By 1 Comment
Chris Brogan on Writing
January 5, 2009 By 1 Comment
I’m a big fan of writing and I’m always working on improving my writing. I read everything I can find about writing and am always on the lookout for new thoughts on how to improve my writing. I found an interesting take on the subject written by Chris Brogan titled “Cultivating a Writing Habit“. Great [...]
Top Issues for CIO’s
January 5, 2009 By 7 Comments
According to Information Week, the Top 10 issues for CIO’s in 2009 are: Customer-Facing Innovation Attacking the 80/20 Ratio The Challenging Economy The Strategic CIO Cloud Computing The SaaS Effect Virtualization Outsourcing Green Computing Radical Desktops I don’t disagree with this list..everything there is important for the CIO’s to consider for the coming year. But, [...]
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