Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
This is a guest post from Elliot Ross. Elliot blogs about business technology issues for non-technology managers in the small to medium enterprise. Before I go any further, in the context of this post, I am using the term System in the context of Systems Theory that defines that parts may be independent, they also [...]
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 [...]
Enterprises Consider Business Agility As A Primary Driver Towards Cloud By Krishnan Subramanian on CloudAve Quote: This report has a quantitative survey of IT executives from businesses of all sizes and shapes. Anyone wanting to understand the cloud adoption trends will find this report interesting. Top IT managers in enterprises will find this report useful [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled Open Source, The Enterprise and The Community where I wrote about embracing the community that exists within your organization and in the open source community. In that post, I mentioned the Boy Scouts of America and how their magazine group uses WordPress.com’s VIP hosting platform for Boys’ Life magazine’s Boyslife.org [...]
I’ve just started reading Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (affiliate link) by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown. Actually…I’ve only made it through the foreword written by Stephen R. Covey…but I’m hoping to get a bit further in the book soon I can’t recommend the book just yet (perhaps a book review will [...]
Mark McDonald, of Gartner, offers some excellent tips for IT planning for 2011 in a post titled Three things to think about as you plan for 2011. In the post, Mark suggests thinking about these three things: Markets are fracturing Everything’s social Technology is moving away from IT These three tips are excellent and worth doing [...]
I grabbed a copy of Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead (affiliate link) by Charlene Li for my business trip last week. Gotta have something to read on the plane you know. I enjoyed this book. Not only is the subject matter interesting, but the way in which Li presents [...]
In my post earlier this week, I spoke, or more accurately typed, about the importance of story. I wonder if there are any CIO’s and IT leaders out there that read that and wondered about their story? Their personal story…and their IT group story. Have you thought about what the story is for your IT [...]
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