Why Social Media Purists Won’t Last by Jason Falls on Social Media Explorer Reliability vs. Validity by Mark Howell on Strategy Central The Led Zeppelin Guide to Creative World Domination by Mark McGuiness on Lateral Action Life Is All There Is by Lance Haun on Rehaul Big is Not Always Beautiful by Scott Stribrny on [...]
Book Review: Andrew McAfee’s Enterprise 2.0
November 23, 2009 By 21 Comments
Just finished reading Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges My review in two words: Excellent book! Whether you are an expert in the Enterprise 2.0 world or just a beginner, this book has something for you. Whether you believe in Enterprise 2.0 or not, this book has some excellent concepts that [...]
Do it or Don’t….just stop talking about it
November 19, 2009 By 11 Comments
I’ve got a few pet peeves. Linear Thinking is one of them. Another one is talking about doing something but never doing it. I’m not talking about ‘not following through’ on things. That’s a performance issue and one that can be addressed with some coaching and basic management skills. What I’m talking about are those [...]
Links for November 15 2009
November 15, 2009 By 5 Comments
Skin In The Game by Chuck Musciano on The Effective CIO Disposable people? A question raised in Cannes by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Netwrok The Little Rules of Action by Leo Babauta on Zen Habits Fits and starts: staying “tech savvy” as a CIO by Peter Kretzman on CTO/CIO perspectives Deal with Your [...]
Consultants and the CIO
November 12, 2009 By 8 Comments
This is a short one….lots going on this week. I got a lot of great feedback on a post I wrote titled “Consultants – Do we need them?“. In that post I argue that consultants are necessary…not a necessary evil mind-you…but a necessity for modern day IT organizations. One of the lines of that struck [...]
Don’t let the big (or small) words win – The New CIO Series
November 5, 2009 By 9 Comments
In the world of technology we tend to use either really big words, really small words and/or acronyms. What do you think of when you think of ‘the cloud’ what do you think of? Do you think about Amazon‘s EC2 or S3 or do you think about “Parallel and Distributed Processing”? Both could be right [...]
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