Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
The Job of a CIO – Content verses Context by John D. Halamka on Life as a Healthcare CIO Quote: Here’s a bold thought – might the context of being a CIO be nearly impossible in 2012 and beyond, requiring us to rethink the way that IT services are planned and delivered in the future? [...]
What cloud boils down to for the enterprise By James Urquhart on GigaOm – Cloud Computing News Quote: What you do bring to the table–er, service–is code, data, configuration metadata and/or policies that are, in fact, what makes any cloud service valuable to you as an individual or an organization. Your task in consuming a [...]
Leadership Is a Gift Given by Those Who Follow by Grant McCracken on Harvard Business Review Quote: Leadership as an act of service. As the General says, “Leadership is a gift. It’s given by those who follow. You have to be worthy of it.” Leadership Lessons from Veterans by Scott Eblin Quote: Take care of [...]
Don’t Sell Technology, Sell Magic by Ben Yoskovitz on instigator blog Quote: Customers want results. They’re attracted to products that delight them. They’re impressed by startups that communicate and respond quickly to their issues. They want value, and they want you to fit seamlessly into their lives. They want a lot. Really: they want magic. [...]
The paradox of expectations by Seth Godin Quote: Perhaps it’s worth considering no expectations. Intense effort followed by an acceptance of what you get in return. It doesn’t make good TV, but it’s a discipline that can turn you into a professional. Of private clouds and zero-sum games by JP Rangaswami on confused of calcutta [...]
Reductio Ad Absurdum by Jim Shamlin Quote: Don’t get me wrong: I’m a fan of surrealism and I adore absurdity, which means I’ll gladly watch a thirty-second film of a ballerina in a bowler hat throwing overripe apricots at a chimpanzee against the backdrop of an art museum … but I don’t think I’ll buy [...]
Google Doesn”t Get Platforms. What Doesn”t Your Company Get? by Elisa Gabbert on WordStream Quote: One could, if one was a Google hater, misconstrue this message as evidence of Google sucking as a company, being doomed to fail. But that would be the wrong way to read it. Yegge isn’t saying that Google is clueless [...]
On Accountability and The Initiative to Learn by Amber Naslund on Brass Tack Thinking Quote: But what we need are more people with the initiative and the moxie to seek out that information, to improve the information that’s out there, to make the effort to learn it rather than just regurgitate it, to rethink it, [...]
Why Your New Process Is A Waste of Time. And Might Just Kill Your Company….by Andy Porter on Fistful of Talent Quote: Processes often replace dialogue. A smart guy once told me never to introduce any process that replaces an actual conversation. Yes, a process can make your work more efficient but most real insights [...]
Enterprise social networking sucks the social out of ‘social’ by Linda Tucci onTotalCIO Quote: …the problem won’t be the technology, he said, but in selling employees on the idea of an enterprise-wide social forum. Not only are the various operations of the bank siloed off from each other, but there also are silos within silos. [...]
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