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.
Ahhh…Social Media. THE hot topic these days (and for some time to come I think).
There’s no arguing that the use of social media is a valid and necessary way to reach [...]
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 out there selling strategic [...]
The Business of IT Blog has an article titled “3 Secrets That Oil Companies Use To Run A Great IT Department” that has some interesting insight from Sunoco’s head of IT, Peter Whatnell. According to the article,
Whatnell stresses that we need to make sure that we don’t “…waste a good crisis.” What he means by [...]
In November 2008 I was asked to take a look at Leading IT Transformation: The Roadmap to Success from Oulette & Associates (O&A) and thought the book sounded interesting…so I agreed and Oulette & Associates sent me a copy of the book to review.
It took a while to get to this book with the holidays [...]
According to Information Week, the Top 10 issues for CIO’s in 2009 are:
Customer-Facing Innovation
Attacking the 80/20 Ratio
The Challenging Economy
The Strategic CIO
Cloud Computing
The SaaS Effect
Virtualization
Outsourcing
Green Computing
Radical Desktops
I don’t disagree with this list..everything there is important for the CIO’s to consider for the coming year.
But, the issues in the Information Week Top 10 list are indicators of [...]
