Intuition vs. Data-Driven Decision-Making: Some Rough Ideas by Bob Sutton on Bob Sutton – Work Matters CIO and the Art of Decision Making by Arun Manansingh on A CIO’s Voice Before you can truly talk about Change Management, you have to focus on achieving clear vision by Olivier Blanchard on The BrandBuilder Blog The 5 [...]
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 [...]
Decision Speed, Performance and the CIO
October 29, 2009 By 10 Comments
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
October 25, 2009 By 5 Comments
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
October 22, 2009 By 13 Comments
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 [...]
Can you do it all? – The New CIO Series
October 15, 2009 By 5 Comments
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 [...]
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