Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just noticed a post over on the Enterprise CIO Forum by Joel Dobbs titled What CIOs (and other executives) can learn from Research In Motion’s dramatic decline. Its a good read with some good points about the downfall of what once was a great company with a bright future. A [...]
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 “invisible gorilla test” popularized by psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. The test consists of a team of 3 people dressed in black and a team of 3 people dressed in white [...]
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’ve always taken it for granted as something that was always ‘there’. If the data I needed wasn’t available in an easy to consume format, I’ve always found a way [...]
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 putting out a lot of ‘change’ blog posts and articles…see Khalid Kark’s The New CIO — Embrace The Empowered Era Or Step Aside or most of Mark McDonald‘s stuff on his Garnter blog [...]
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 increasingly calling the shots in IT from CIO magazine’s UK website – reports some very disturbing results. Before I report on the results, let’s look at the survey [...]
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 consultants take with clients and potential clients is to ‘find the pain’ and provide services to fix this ‘pain’. I’ve taken this approach many times myself with much [...]
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. The people are complex. And…the business is complex….and its getting complexier (I just made that word up!) Its tough enough for most IT organizations to keep the [...]
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 ‘something’. If you want your websites to load faster, you need to know what ‘fast’ means and have something to compare past, present and future measurements too. You [...]
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 look like in the ‘real world’. I’ve talked about this subject before on this blog in posts like The diminishing role of IT and the CIO(?), Building Tomorrow’s [...]
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 vs. CMO’s – what’s the real problem?“, I shared the following 2010 goals/projects that CIO’s and CMO’s are reportedly working on. In that article I also promised a discussion of [...]
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