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Sorry for the silly title…but I do I love WordPress. Well…I should clarify…I love the self-hosted version of found at WordPress.org). The WordPress.com version is quite good but you lose the ability to do some customization over there (unless you’re on the VIP platform…and you’re still limited in what you can do there). Why [...]
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 professionals and leaders. The survey, titled The Future of IT (pdf download), basically argues that the role of IT will diminish in the future. The [...]
I’ve been thinking about approaches to small business technology initiatives and whether it makes sense for small business to outsource a good portion of their IT infrastructure and platforms. Most of the things I’ve read on the topic of small business IT outsourcing has been fairly light in terms of advice for small business owners. [...]
Mark McDonald, of Gartner, offers some excellent tips for IT planning for 2011 in a post titled Three things to think about as you plan for 2011. In the post, Mark suggests thinking about these three things: Markets are fracturing Everything’s social Technology is moving away from IT These three tips are excellent and worth doing [...]
IT’s Three Key Organizational Transformations by Andrew McAfee on Harvard Business Review’s Blog Quote: I see companies in all industries using computers to accomplish three broad and deep transformations: they’re becoming more scientific, more orchestrated, and more self-organizing. None of these is complete yet, and I doubt that they ever will be. This is because [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve been conducting a very unscientific survey of small business CIO’s, VP’s and Directors of IT. Using LinkedIn, I gathered a list of fifty people in the US who had the title of Chief Information Officer (CIO), Vice President of IT, or Director of IT with small businesses. Note: 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. Do you know the full capabilities of your team? Sure…you know what their resume’s said. You think you know their backgrounds and their experience…but do you really know your team? [...]
Image by Frédéric Harper via Flickr I’m coming up on 2 years of working with Sitecore, a .NET Content Management System (see my post titled “Some Thoughts on Sitecore CMS” for previous thoughts on the subject). These two years have been interesting, challenging and exciting and educational. Since I’ve written about Sitecore in the past, [...]
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