Articles on Organization

Data and culture must go hand in hand in modern organizations.

Rather than blindly follow your a 'successful' company, find ways to incorporate their successes into your organization. Be pragmatic, not dogmatic.

In a recent Harvard Business Review article titled “Don’t Ask for New Ideas If You’re Not Ready to Act on Them”, Ron Ashkenas provides an example of a

Change happens...and when it does, you should have your plans in place to move. These plans should then allow you to move fast and move true.

I'm currently reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (amazon affiliate link). In one of the first few chapters, Dr. Kahneman describes the

I just finished reading Eric T. Peterson's post titled The Myth of the “Data-Driven” Business. I don't talk or write much about 'data'...mostly because

I'm starting to see more people talk about the real need for change within  IT groups.  The big analyst/consulting companies (Forester, Garnter, etc) are

I just read an article describing the results of a Gartner survey of Chief Financial Officers and their opinions of IT and CIO's. The article -  CFOs

Ian Brodie wrote a nice piece last week titled Why "Finding the Pain" is a bad strategy that resonated with me. The approach that many companies and

I don't think there's anyone out there who would argue that the world of IT has become a complex one. The systems are complex. The processes are complex.

I'm a big believer in the mindset that you've got to measure it to manage it. If you can't measure something, its very difficult to manage that

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

Some smart-ass (like me) will probably say "1 letter"....but let's dive into that question a little more deeply. Last week, in an article titled "CIO's

Improve end-user workforce productivityEarlier this week I wrote a post titled "The relationship between the CIO and CMO?" where I reported on a survey

Over the few weeks, I've been writing a lot about IT and the future of IT. Most of those articles end up with me saying something like "think about the

Passion. What type of emotion is evoked when you read it or hear that word? What do you think of when you think of passion? Do you think about your job?

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

Last week I wrote a long article titled Building Tomorrow's Organization - without today's IT? The purpose of that article was to walk through a 'what if'

A few weeks ago I wrote about The diminishing role of IT and the CIO.  That post struck a nerve with quite a few readers so I wanted to expand on the

In my article titled Technology Selection and Cultural Fit, I argue that cultural fit is an important aspect to consider when undertaking Technology

Did you know that technology selection is about much more than technology? Yep...its true.....but most people don't realize it. Many in the IT world love

In a previous article titled The Future of IT & the CIO - Redux of the DoDo I pointed to some survey results that should be alarming to most IT

Cognitive Dissonance has been defined on Wikipedia as an "uncomfortable tension caused by holding contradictory thoughts simultaneously". A similar

In my doctoral research, I've been researching ways to improve knowledge capture and sharing methods, specifically within project teams but the ideas can

I really dislike it when I hear someone in IT say that its time 'run IT as a business'. Why? Because both terms normally convey a sense of importance upon

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

Strategy. That one word can send shudders through many folks.  That one word has made millions and millions for consulting companies and consultants. Can

The future of the information technology group  has been determined...and it doesn't look good. See that bird over there? That's the Dodo.  He's extinct.

I'm trying out a new approach to my link sharing posts. I'm now using delicious to capture the the articles that I want to share along with my notes. I

Technical Excellence is something we all strive for in areas that we care about. We all want to be really good at something don't we? It takes a long time

I just finished reading Chase Jarvis' post titled "Creativity alone is not enough". In this article, Chase argues that Creativity isn't enough for people

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

Some interesting research results being reported over on Fistful of Talent by Lizz Pellet who is the Chief Culture Officer at EMERGE International in a

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

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

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. A few months ago, I

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. There's lots of

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. Do you know the full

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. As a follow-up to my

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

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. Innovation. That's a

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. We've all heard the

Get Ready As Corporate Sites and Social Networks Start To Connect by Jeremiah Owyang on Web Strategy Why Authenticity is More Important Than Ever by Aaron

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've seen many

Social change takes more than social media by Ivan Booth on the Rootwork Blog (via Beth Kanter's Blog) KISS: The Difference Between Strategy and Tactics -

Can an organization be built on individuality with a focus on bringing humanity back to business? I think so. The modern day corporation was developed to

I've been pondering the question "What is a Leader?" for a while now.  It's a question that's always in the back of my mind and I've never really gotten a

The opening paragraphs of the chapter titled '95 Theses' from The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual says (taken from this page): A

McKinsey has recently released a report titled "IT's unmet potential: McKinsey Global Survey Results" that shows that there is still a lot of work to do

In these troubled times, it's hard for organizations to focus on employee moral and happiness. I've heard many 'leaders' say things like "they should be

According to a research report released by The Hackett Group, and reported by Financial Week, they don't. The Financial Week article, titled "Customers

A recent article by J Schwan at The Technology Edge titled "Stop Hiding Behind your Role and Get it Done" has an interesting spin on the world of

Mike Sebastian, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at SourceCheck....and a great guy to boot, has recently had an article published on InsideARM titled "The

wanted to follow up my post titled "In a downturn, people are vital" with a few more thoughts on the subject. In that post, I said that "employees are

Management Issues had an article on Sept 25 titled "Looking after talent is vital in a downturn" that gave me hope when I saw the title. The article

Management Issues (MI) reported today on a survey by Careerbuilder.com that says that many US workers are losing faith in their senior leaders.  MI

Management Issues has a nice post titled "Organizations Ignoring the Transfer of Knowledge" that talks about the lack of planning for the transfer of

Timothy Johnson takes a swipe at methodologies in his post titled "Worshipping the Hammer".  To be more accurate, he takes a swipe at those people who

John P. Kotter, author of "Leading Change" and "Our Iceberg is Melting" is set to release a new book titled "a sense of urgency" (release date September 3

Jim Champy's new book titled "Outsmart!: How to Do What Your Competitors Can't" is an interesting book.  It's short and easy to read...and full of some

Peter Vajda has a great post over on Slow Leadership titled "Why People Resist Change" that is well worth the time to read. Peter argues that the reasons

There's an interesting story on ReadWriteWeb (RWW) and the Wall Street Journal this week about Social Networking failures in the enterprise. An excerpt

Just finished reading "Moose on the Table"by Jim Clemmer. Before I get into the review, let me define "moose on the table."  According to the author, it

Michael Hugos had a really good post on CIO.com titled "Agility Means Simple Things Done Well, Not Complex Things Done Fast" that provided the best

Recently, while reading a book on Organizational Change and Project Management, I noticed a disturbing pattern. The book I was reading discusses the

"Employee Engagement" is one of those 'buzzwords' that you hear thrown about quite a bit...but this is a buzzword that should be carefully thought about

Excerpt from a paper on Information Technology Human Capital as Competitive Advantage, covering IT-business alignment and human capital management.

I wanted to take some time to simplify my discussion of Resource Diversity and Resource Immobility from my post titled "Competitive Advantage and the

As a follow up to my previous post titled Competitive Advantage - The Human Capital Approach, I wanted to take a second to talk a little bit about the

I was asked recently to describe how an organization can use its human capital to create competitive advantage. I fell into the trap of using Porter's

Its amazing to see what passion can do to a person....and an organization. My wife Tracie and a business partner (Marcy) officially launched their

As a follow up to my previous post titled "Dress Codes at Work", I wanted to present the following hypothetical question to my readers. You work for a

Have you ever walked into an interview with a preconceived notion of the job you were interviewing for and after during/after the interview you felt that

This post is a follow up to my post titled "Employee Onboarding". Research reported on a recent Management Issues article titled "How to lose half your

Organization Alignment seems like one of those 'touchy feely' things that most technical folks would rather not discuss but it's actually quite relevant

First off...let me answer the question: Does it matter if I use Agile or Waterfall methodologies in my project? My opinion is no...it doesn't matter...but

Five practical interviewing tips for hiring managers — be prepared, have a conversation, and stop reading canned questions. Plus a real cautionary tale.

Why hiring based on GPA and pedigree fails organizations. Real stories from engineering leaders who built great teams by looking beyond binary credentials.

Why hiring only top-tier MBA graduates creates dangerous uniformity. Ricardo Semler's case for building diverse organizational culture through broader hiring.

I've been reading Ricardo Semler's phenomenal book "The Seven Day Weekend" and just ran across this quote: Cash on hand, revenue, and profits are

Five common hiring challenges — from writing job descriptions to onboarding — and practical ways to overcome them to attract and retain great people.

Don Blohowiak has a new post on his "Leadership. Now." blog titled "Endurance Reward" where he discusses the 'old-timer, high salary' issue within