Is IT & the CIO set up for failure?

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This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. A new video over on the Enterprise CIO Forum with Bill Laberis in apost titled Are we setting CIOs up for failure?. Bill’s video is embedded below for your viewing. Its short but asks a good question – Are we setting the CIO up for failure? So…are we setting CIOs up for [...]

Links for May 13 2012

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Don’t Underestimate the Quiet Ones by Mary Jo Asmus on Aspire-CS Quote: In the end, we need all kinds of people in leadership. Don’t overlook those who are quieter than the rest. Get to know them, understand their strengths and determine whether your assumptions are correct. You might be pleasantly surprised at what the quiet [...]

Foto Friday – Old Faithful

Old Faithful Erupting + Rainbow

From the archives: I shot the heck out of old-faithful erupting and got lucky with this shot and got the rainbow I was hoping for. Captured with Canon 5D and Canon 24-105 L. EXIF: 1/1000sec, f/4.5, 45mm, 100ISO, 0EV

More on Shadow IT…

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This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Martin Davis wrote a nice piece titled Is Consumerization of IT” really “Shadow IT” in disguise? where he asks a really great question….Is Consumerization of IT (which is something many people are talking about today) just another version of Shadow IT? I’ve written about Shadow IT many times in the past and will [...]

The Marginalization of Employees

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Does your team and/or coworkers know they are important to the organization? How do they know they are important? Did someone tell them? Or…do they just “know” they are? Maybe a combo of both perhaps? Regardless of how, if you /your team / your coworkers feel important to your organization, someone is doing something right. [...]

Links for May 6 2012

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The Simplicity Thesis by Aaron Levie on Fast Company Quote: When technology was inherently and unavoidably complex, it was forgivable that solutions weren’t elegant and simple. It was at one time understandable that finding and visiting a new doctor could take weeks, or searching for enterprise information wasn’t successful. But with a myriad of elegant [...]

Foto Friday – Tree Bark

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While out walking around a few weeks ago, I grabbed a snapshot of some treebark with my iPhone + Instagram. I liked the texture.  Enjoy. EXIF: NA

Links for April 29 2012

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Stop Blabbing About Innovation And Start Actually Doing It by Aaron Shapiro on Fast Company Quote: If your business can’t innovate, it won’t survive when the startup in the garage across town that doesn’t have to answer to your shareholders does all the things legal has been telling you that you can’t do, all the [...]

Foto Friday – Sunrise over Carolina Beach

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Sunrise over Carolina Beach, NC. Taken with Canon 40D and Tamron 24-70 EXIF: NA

Using Anxiety to drive improvement

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This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. There’s a great video over on the  Enterprise CIO Forum  with Enterprise CIO Forum editorial director Bill Laberis describing how CIO’s can leverage the ‘anxiety’ present withing IT Staff today. The video, titled Leveraging the anxiety in your IT staff,  initially put me off…when anyone talks about ‘leveraging’ things like anxiety…I [...]