Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. What have you done for me lately? If you’ve grown up in the world of IT, you probably either get asked this question regularly or you feel that the people within the organization are thinking it. Its fairly common to have a technology project finish up and everyone [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. As a follow up to my post titled Gamification as a Rewards Systems (?), I wanted to take a second to highlight a comment made by Jacob Ratliff on that post. Jacob writes: Gamification can be a really good thing if it’s meaningful. If it just put on [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I’ve not really been following the whole “gamification” topic over the last few years but perhaps I should have been. There are some interesting things happening in the space right now. John Dodge points to the use of a gamification program at Fedex called the “Fedex Badge”. [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Heather Campbell posted the following question recently: I find myself wondering, have we outsourced too much? Its a great question and one that should be asked more often. Heather describes the IT Outsourcing Cycle thusly: The outsourcing model goes something like this: individuals are assigned to your account [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Here’s an interesting thought experiment. Assume you got promoted. Maybe you’ve just moved from the Director of IT Operations role to the Vice President of IT. One of your first tasks is to start the hiring process for your replacement. Ask yourself this question: Would you hire ‘you’? [...]
I get emails and phone calls from people all the time. Some have the nerve to tell me the message is “important”. Some even mark the little exclamation point in Outlook that denotes ‘importance’ or ‘high priority’ when they email me. I have news for those people (and for you). Your email isn’t important. Your [...]
I just finished giving a presentation titled “Will Twitter Make you a better investor?”…and like I always do with these presentations, I recorded one of my rehearsal’s to share. In this presentation, I provide an overview of my research into using twitter sentiment and message volume as inputs into modeling stock price movements. A quick [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I’ve been writing for months (years?) about the changes coming to IT and the role of the CIO. My “New CIO” topic is littered with posts about the changes being seen today and those changes that are coming down the road. Many others have been writing about it [...]
My paper, titled Will Twitter Make You a Better Investor? A Look at Sentiment, User Reputation and their effect on the Stock Market, has been published in the Conference Proceedings for the Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS) 2012 Conference. You can grab a copy of the PDF here: Will Twitter Make You a Better Investor? A Look at [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. We in the IT world like to talk a lot about the ‘new’ IT, the future of IT and the the need for IT to ‘change’. Whether that change is focused on aligning with the business, being more agile, moving to the cloud or just plain providing ‘value’ [...]
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