Pick one and own it by Jason Cohen on A Smart Bear
The Strategy Trap: Why focusing too much on strategy could be killing your ability to execute by Olivier Blanchard on The BrandBuilder Blog
HR Hint of the Day: Let Them Run Through the Sprinklers by Frank Roche on KnowHR Blog {If you click on no [...]
Did you catch the news earlier this week? Gene De Libero and I started a new blog titled “CIO Essentials“. Gene and I have known each other for a few years now and recently collaborated on an article for Cutter IT Journal titled “The Futureproof CIO“. That collaboration has turned into CIO Essentials (CIOE).
I had [...]
Do you know Hutch Carpenter? You should. He write’s some awesome stuff over at I’m Not Actually a Geek.
Hutch recently wrote a post titled “Apple iPad and Google Buzz: Harsh Reality of Innovation” where he argues (successfully I think) that you’ve got to be OK with failure to really be innovative.
In the article Hutch points [...]
Five by Chuck Musciano on The Effective CIO
The Splinternet means the end of the Web’s golden age by Josh Bernoff on Groundswell
Run IT Like a Business, Not As a Business by Chris Curran on CIO Dashboard
Why the CIO Loves Agile Development by Isaac Sacolick on Social, Agile, and Transformation
Are you keeping your standard in view? [...]
Short post this week as I’m swamped and haven’t had time to work anything up….but I wanted to take a quick second to ask my readers to give me some CIO topics you’d like to read about in the future (or…if you’d like to write it up and do a guest post…feel free!).
Drop me a [...]
I ran across an interesting post today titled “Why you don’t need Social Media Consultants” on the Brains on Fire Blog. The main thesis of the post is: “social media consultants provide little value…they do nothing more than you already know how to do so you don’t need them”.
In the article, Spike Jones says:
If you [...]
Last week I wrote about “Turbulence, IT & The New CIO” and discussed the need to embrace agility and speed in order to address the turbulence that we see in business today. In order to be agile, I mentioned the OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) model for use in helping keep agility at the front [...]
The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges.
I just completed reading The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World. Great book. Go buy it…the link above is an affiliate link or just go grab one from [...]
The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges.
It as if we’re more hearing about businesses doing more with less.
In the world of IT, you definitely hear this. Budgets are slashed or frozen. Layoffs are happening. The business is [...]
“None” is Not a Social Media Strategy by Chris Curran on CIO Dashboard
Web 3.0 Is Coming – Are CIOs Ready? bt Dr. Jim Anderson on The Accidental Successful CIO
Blame storming – one of the signs of weak management by Mark McDonald on BLT: Business Leadership and Technology
“Social Learning” Will Be a Core Design Element in [...]
