Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just read a short article on the Enterprise CIO Forum written by Charles Bess titled Landing a few points about cloud and the shifting expectations of a CIO. In the article, Charles talks about a few different things but one sentence really caught my eye. Charles wrote: [...]
Dave Brock just published a post that resonated with me. The title of the post – Order Taker or Solution Creator – hits home in the IT world. In the article, Dave describes what he calls ‘order takers’ and ‘solution creators’. The order taker does a good job of working with clients to deliver a widget [...]
You’ve probably heard the old saying that “Hope isn’t a strategy”. I’ve written a few words on the topic of Strategy, Tactics and Hope in the past and have even talked about minding the gap between strategy and tactics. Most people and organizations understand – at least in theory – that they need a strategic [...]
I’ve been reading a lot lately about the ‘love affair’ between Chief Information Officer’s and Chief Marketing Officer’s around the world. I think this is a good thing…as long as this is ‘true love’ and not just infatuation between two groups that are starting to have to work closer together to get things done. As [...]
I just finished reading Eric T. Peterson’s post titled The Myth of the “Data-Driven” Business. I don’t talk or write much about ‘data’…mostly because I’ve always taken it for granted as something that was always ‘there’. If the data I needed wasn’t available in an easy to consume format, I’ve always found a way [...]
Everyone has an agenda. I”m not talking about a meeting agenda…I’m talking about the personal agenda that everyone has built their lives around. This agenda is the driving force for everything a person does. Its the motivation behind most decisions a person makes throughout their personal and professional life. This personal agenda can be either [...]
A few months ago, I wrote a post titled How project management made me a better trader/investor where i talk about my experience and skills learned from years as a project manager and how they’ve helped in my trading and investing. In the world of trading and investing, you learn by failure and you learn by [...]
The word ‘professional’ is quite often overused in today’s world. There are tons of professionals out there. Professional sports players. Professional money managers. Professionals in the medical and legal industrys. Over the last 10 years, there’s been a move to make darn near every type of job a ‘professional’ type of job – “Professional” project [...]
I’m starting to see more people talk about the real need for change within IT groups. The big analyst/consulting companies (Forester, Garnter, etc) are putting out a lot of ‘change’ blog posts and articles…see Khalid Kark’s The New CIO — Embrace The Empowered Era Or Step Aside or most of Mark McDonald‘s stuff on his Garnter blog [...]
Most businesses are chasing. They’re chasing their competitors. Chasing their industries. Chasing their perceptions of their future as well as chasing their past. Many people within companies are chasing too. Their chasing the approval of their leadership team. Chasing the approval of their managers and of their peers. Some are even chasing recognition from their [...]
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