This is a short one….lots going on this week. I got a lot of great feedback on a post I wrote titled “Consultants – Do we need them?“. In that post I argue that consultants are necessary…not a necessary evil mind-you…but a necessity for modern day IT organizations. One of the lines of that struck [...]
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 [...]
Can you do it all? – The New CIO Series
October 15, 2009 By 5 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 read a ‘call for papers’ from Cutter IT Journal with the title “The Great Recession Fallout: Will CIOs Be Elevated or Exterminated?” It doesn’t look like they’ve posted [...]
Leading by saying No – The New CIO Series
September 10, 2009 By 26 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. So you want to be a leader? Great..hope you get there. Will you be willing to do those difficult jobs a leader has to do? Will you be willing to [...]
Project Success and Failure and The New CIO
July 30, 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. Earlier this week, I listened to an interesting webinar hosted by Michael Krigsman and led by Chris Curran. The topic of the webinar was the CIO’s role in success or [...]
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 [...]
Keeping your IT staff Engaged and Happy – The New CIO Series
July 9, 2009 By 10 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. Today’s CIO is having a tough time. They’re being asked to do more with less. Budgets are being slashed. Projects are being canceled. Tough times indeed. What can the CIO [...]
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: [...]
Strategy, Tactics and Hope
June 17, 2009 By 12 Comments
What happens when you create the best strategic plan in the world but don’t have a plan to implement it? Lots of wheel spinning and very little progress. What happens when you have a great implementation plan for a poor strategy? Lots of wheel spinning and very little progress. There are tons of consulting companies [...]
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