Decision Speed, Performance and the CIO

Last week I wrote about “Turbulence, IT & The New CIO” and discussed the need to embrace agility and speed in order to address the turbulence that we see in business today.  In order to be agile, I mentioned the OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) model for use in helping keep agility at the front [...]

Links for Oct 25 2009

How CIOs can sense if their companies are getting ready to fall? by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network 10 Tips on Building a Better Business by Ted Mininni on Marketing Profs Daily Fix Time to Take off the Web 2.0 / Social Media Gloves by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent Seven Elements of [...]

Turbulence, IT and The New CIO

Turbulence, IT and the 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. I just completed reading The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World. Great book.  Go buy it…the link above is an affiliate link or just go grab one [...]

Links for Oct 18 2009

What Human Business And the Social Web Are About by Chris Brogan on chrisbrogan.com The Insider Threat: What CIOs Need To Know by Dr. Jim Anderson on The Accidental Successful CIO Collaboration between Business and IT Leads to Innovation by Isaac Sacolick on Social, Agile, and Transformation We Learn Best from Other People by Rosa [...]

Can you do it all? – The New CIO Series

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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 just read a ‘call for papers’ from Cutter IT Journal with the title “The Great Recession Fallout: Will CIOs Be Elevated or Exterminated?”  It doesn’t look like they’ve posted [...]

Links for Oct 11 2009

Success is About Relationships by Kevin Eikenberry from Remarkable Learning with Kevin Eikenberry Can CIOs Drive Innovation & Boost Quality At The Same Time? by Dr. Jim Anderson on The Accidental Successful CIO Social Media Makes Everything Marketing by Jay Baer on Convince and Convert Blog: Where Social Media and Email Collide Welcome new customers [...]

The Future of IT and the CIO – 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. A few months ago, I aksed a question on LinkedIn about the role of the CIO (read the original question & responses): Will the CIO role change in the next [...]

Links for Oct 4 2009

Sorry to miss last Sunday’s Link post…I was trying to recover from my vacation Benefits of Slow Practice by Steve Neiderhauser Is Your Strategy About Winning, Or About Maximizing Success? by Charles H Green on Trust Matters blog Why Critical Thinking Is Not a Creativity Killer by Mark McGuinness on Lateral Action Innovation lessons from [...]

Luck and The New CIO – or what I did on my vacation

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. My wife and I took a vacation last week.  We spent 7 days in two of the most exciting and beautiful places on earth – Yellowstone National Park and the [...]