Monthly Archives: July 2009

Project Success and Failure and The New CIO

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges.
Earlier this week, I listened to an interesting webinar hosted by Michael Krigsman and led by Chris Curran.  The topic of the webinar was the CIO’s role in success or failure [...]

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Book Review: Toy Box Leadership

I just finished Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child…somewhat flawed but a good book nonetheless.
Flawed may be a bad word to use for this book.  The idea is a great one (more on it later) but the narratives about the lessons could have been stronger.   In addition, I [...]

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Links for July 26 2009

“None” is Not a Social Media Strategy by Chris Curran on CIO Dashboard
Web 3.0 Is Coming – Are CIOs Ready? bt Dr. Jim Anderson on The Accidental Successful CIO
Blame storming – one of the signs of weak management by Mark McDonald on BLT: Business Leadership and Technology
“Social Learning” Will Be a Core Design Element in [...]

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Book Review: Succession, Are You Ready?

I just finished reading Succession: Are You Ready? (Memo to the Ceo) by Marshall Goldsmith.
While the subject was interesting, I think the audience for this book is extremely narrow for it to be of much interest to a large audience.
When I first noticed this book, I thought that there might be some information for non-CEO’s [...]

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Defining "Right" – The New CIO Series

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges.
We’ve all heard the ‘get the right people on the bus‘ analogy from Jim Collin’s, but have you ever stopped to think about whether the bus is  heading in the right [...]

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Sitecore Implementation Notes

Image by Frédéric Harper via Flickr

I’m coming up on 2 years of working with Sitecore, a .NET Content Management System (see my post titled “Some Thoughts on Sitecore CMS” for previous thoughts on the subject).  These two years have been interesting, challenging and exciting and educational.
Since I’ve written about Sitecore in the past, I wanted [...]

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Links for July 19 2009

Get Ready As Corporate Sites and Social Networks Start To Connect by Jeremiah Owyang on Web Strategy
Why Authenticity is More Important Than Ever by Aaron Strout on Citizen Marketer 2.1
Is Free The Future Of Enterprise Software? Yes And No. by Aaron Levie on TechCrunch
Trust and Integrity Build Careers by Scot Herrick on Cube Rules
Is It [...]

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Minding the gap between Strategy and Tactics – The New CIO Series

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges.
I’ve seen many strategic plans for organizations. A few of these plans have sections for Technology Strategy while some don’t mention technology at all.   While these strategic plans are nice and [...]

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A milestone – 3 years old (not 4 like I thought!)

Update – My original post was titled “A milestone – 4 years old”. Apparently I can’t count   I started the blog in 2006 so it’s my blog’s THIRD birthday!

I started this blog on July 14, 2006 with a blog post titled “The Strategic Use of Human Resources“. My first post was an [...]

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Links for July 12 2009

Social change takes more than social media by Ivan Booth on the Rootwork Blog (via Beth Kanter’s Blog)
KISS: The Difference Between Strategy and Tactics – and Why It Matters by B.L. Ochman’s blog on B.L. Ochman’s WhatsNextBlog
Whom to Pay is More Important than How Much or How by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz on HarvardBusiness.org
The Freemium Company LifeCycle [...]

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