Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
In 1968, Dick Fosbury won the Olympic Gold Medal for the High Jump. While winning the gold, Fosbury popularized the “Fosbury Flop“….a style of approaching and clearing the high jump bar that hadn’t been used previously. Prior to the ’68 Olympic games, most high jumpers used ‘the straddle’, the ‘western roll‘ or some other style [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. In my last post on application modernization, titled Application Modernization – “Plumbing projects” or roadmap to innovation & revenue?, I talked a bit about the importance of how modernization projects can deliver value to organizations. In many application modernization projects, the best option is the [...]
I’ve been talking to quite a few folks recently about Sharepoint 2010 to get feedback and insight into the product’s current acceptance and usage rate. One key area that interests me is around content management and content management systems. I’ve worked with a lot of them in the past and my two favorites right now [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Application Modernization….only two words…but two words that denote a big undertaking for most organizations. I’ve touched on the subject of modernizing applications and infrastructure, in a few posts in the past (see here and here). In my consulting efforts, I’ve run across many CIO’s and [...]
Neil Pearce just published a very nice piece titled “It is all about The Customer“. Go read it. In the article, Neil argues that IT needs to focus on projects that focus on The Customer. He writes: Too often we in the IT department are seen as being out of touch by other people within [...]
I’ve spent the few weeks working on my taxes. Fun Fun, right? It’s actually not too bad to be honest…our tax situation isn’t too terribly convoluted but is getting more difficult to myself. In the past, Tracie and I had very little activity outside our jobs but with her photography business doing so well and [...]
After my last post on the topic of Reinventing IT, I decided to think about the different aspects of actually reinventing IT and what it might actually look like in the ‘real world’. I’ve talked about this subject before on this blog in posts like The diminishing role of IT and the CIO(?), Building Tomorrow’s [...]
There’s been some excellent content and discussions recently about reinventing IT. Mark McDonald at Gartner has been talking / writing about the subject quite extensively lately. He’s been making quite a lot of sense too. A recent post by Mark, titled What does it mean to reimagine IT?, he lays out a nice call to [...]
I wanted to follow up to my last post (For Models for Success for the CTO / CIO – CTOVision) with a few quick thoughts on the The External-facing Technologist CTO / CIO role described by Tom Berray (link to a Word Doc). The external facing technologist role is one that’s lacking sorely in most [...]
This was originally posted on InfoBoom. Reposting here for my regular readers. I recently wrote a post titled Social – A Culture, not a tool that describes a “light bulb moment” that a friend of mine had when thinking about Social media’s use in marketing and PR. In that post, I outline how a friend [...]
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