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 [...]
What would you do differently?
January 21, 2010 By 11 Comments
Decision Speed, Performance and the CIO
October 29, 2009 By 10 Comments
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 [...]
Turbulence, IT and The New CIO
October 22, 2009 By 13 Comments
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 [...]
Goals, Priorities and The New CIO
August 13, 2009 By 16 Comments
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 [...]
Links for July 26 2009
July 26, 2009 By 2 Comments
“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 [...]
So you want to be a Change Agent?
June 29, 2009 By 17 Comments
I was recently reading Dagmar Recklies’ article titled What Makes a Good Change Agent? and started thinking about some of the people that I know who are good at change…and some who completly destroy any opportunities for change. In the article, 15 Competencies are listed that a good change agent should have. These competencies are: [...]
Beware of the Linear Thinking Trap
June 22, 2009 By 6 Comments
You’re doing it wrong!
June 15, 2009 By 12 Comments
You’re doing it wrong! I hate when people tell me that. Who are they to tell me how to do something? OK…OK…there are times when ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ make sense. Driving a car. Flying a plane. Connecting electric lines. Things like this do have right and wrong ways. If I’m taking a picture, who’s to [...]
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