January 2010

Links for Jan 31 2010

January 31, 2010 Information Technology

Five by Chuck Musciano on The Effective CIO The Splinternet means the end of the Web’s golden age by Josh Bernoff on Groundswell Run IT Like a Business, Not As a Business by Chris Curran on CIO Dashboard Why the CIO Loves Agile Development by Isaac Sacolick on Social, Agile, and Transformation Are you keeping [...]

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I hate consultants

January 28, 2010 Information Technology

“I hate consultants.” When I heard those words spill out of my lunch companion’s mouth as soon as we sat down, I knew it would be a long lunch meeting. Some background When I was an independent consultant I spent a lot of time in business development mode. Lots of time going to networking events [...]

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What would you do differently?

January 21, 2010 Information Technology

Short post this week as I’m swamped and haven’t had time to work anything up….but I wanted to take a quick second to ask my readers to give me some CIO topics you’d like to read about in the future (or…if you’d like to write it up and do a guest post…feel free!). Drop me [...]

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Links for Jan 17 2010

January 17, 2010 Sunday Links

Forget means to an end, and find the meaning of life by Jared Goralnick on Technotheory.com Seizing opportunities in turbulent markets: The Tingyi story by Don Sull on Don Sull’s Blog “What gets measured gets done.” by Tim Walker on Hoover’s Business Insight Zone Documents Are Not Strategy by Jamie Notter on Get Me Jamie [...]

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Linear Thinking and the CIO

January 14, 2010 Information Technology

I’ve been sitting at my computer staring at the screen for a few minutes trying to come up with a topic for my weekly “New CIO” article. While waiting for inspiration to strike (i.e., surfing the web) I took a look at my Google Analytics account and noticed that the most visited article on my [...]

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CIO as Leader or Manager?

January 7, 2010 Information Technology

I just finished reading “Managing” by Henry Mintzberg. Great book. What’s so great about it? It provides a good reminder that being a good manager is just as important as being a good leader. Mintzberg does an excellent job of bringing the importance of managing well to the forefront. Like I said…good book. Buy it [...]

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Three words for 2010

January 4, 2010 Leadership

I realize it’s a few days into the new year and most people have already committed their 2010 resolutions to paper (or screen)…now its my turn. Rather than use ‘resolutions’ to tell others what I plan to do, I began to use the “three words” method that I read about over on Chris Brogan’s blog. [...]

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Links for Jan 3 2010

January 3, 2010 Leadership

Competing with Pirates by Mark Fidelman on Seek Omega and Cross Posted on CloudAve Why Planning Is Important, Your Plan is Not by George Krueger and Mary-Lynn Foster on Blog For Profit Are You Willing to Lose Your Best and Brightest Over a Bag of Pretzels? by Vincent Ferrari on KnowHR Blog Breaking Through Organizational [...]

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About the Author

Eric D. Brown is a Technology Consultant, Doctoral Student and Entrepreneur focused on helping businesses and non-profits merge business, marketing and technology. He writes extensively about technology, strategy, people and projects at ericbrown.com. In addition, Eric is an avid & passionate photographer who's work can be seen at Photography Minute and on his flickr photostream.