Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
I’ve been reading Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath (amazon affiliate link). If you haven’t read the book…check it out…some good insight into why people change…and why they don’t. The basic premise of the book is that most change efforts fail. Change efforts don’t fail just [...]
Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft. After it was announced that he was leaving, he published a memo on his blog. The memo, titled Dawn of a New Day, is an excellent read. In fact, I’m in awe of people who can write like Mr. Ozzie can. While reading through the memo (yes…I read the whole [...]
As promised in earlier posts (here and here), its time to talk about the two main issues that cause problems between the CIO and the CMO. In CIO’s vs CMO’s – what’s the real problem?, I looked at some of the issues that exist between CIO’s and CMO’s and wondered what could be causing the [...]
If you don’t know, my passion outside of technology, entrepreneurship and writing on this blog is photography. I’ve recently been spending even more time on that passion of mine…which is OK by me Don’t fret though…I still love thinking, and writing, about IT and people One of the photography blogs that I regularly follow is called “A Photo [...]
Passion. What type of emotion is evoked when you read it or hear that word? What do you think of when you think of passion? Do you think about your job? The company you work for? Finishing up the big project you’re working on? Or… Do you think about many other things outside of your [...]
I’ve said before that people are more important that process. I’ve said it in many different ways and in many different articles. After every article, I receive responses from readers similar to these: Processes are important. Processes drive the business to efficiency. Process drives execution. After receiving these types of responses, I always have to go back and [...]
Last week I wrote a long article titled Building Tomorrow’s Organization – without today’s IT? The purpose of that article was to walk through a ‘what if’ scenario centered around designing the organization of tomorrow without a single IT professional. I’d like to thank those that left feedback for providing exactly what I was looking [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote about The diminishing role of IT and the CIO. That post struck a nerve with quite a few readers so I wanted to expand on the topic. I thought about a case study of some form or perhaps an interview or two but then I thought…why not do [...]
Did you know that technology selection is about much more than technology? Yep…its true…..but most people don’t realize it. Many in the IT world love to get asked to be a part of a technology selection project. These types of projects usually provide a learning opportunity for everyone on the team and an chance to [...]
In a previous article titled The Future of IT & the CIO – Redux of the DoDo I pointed to some survey results that should be alarming to most IT professionals and leaders. The survey, titled The Future of IT (pdf download), basically argues that the role of IT will diminish in the future. The [...]
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