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I had the pleasure of moderating / hosting a twitter chat yesterday (Tuesday April 30 2013) involving the topic of Innovation & the CIO using the hashtag #CIOInnovate. The chat was sponsored by Dell and their Chief Innovation Officer Jim Stikeleather (@stikeyoda) joined the conversation and provided some excellent insight and feedback on the topic [...]
First it was laptop computers, now its tablets. The enterprise is getting more mobile and IT groups have to find ways to ensure security can keep up. This mobile world has always brought challenges to the IT group. While IT worries about security and management of these mobile devices, the business is concerned with productivity [...]
I’ve written about the topic “Bring your own Device” (BYOD) in the past but I never really touched on the issue of what BYOD does for IT complexity. Does having a BYOD policy that allows your employees to bring their own devices increase the workload and complexity for the IT staff? My gut reaction to [...]
This post is brought to you by VMware and their Online Forum 2013 Event Last weekend, I spent some time talking with an old friend. He’s the CIO of a small business in the Southwest US. Over the last few years, he’s been having a lot of trouble keeping things running with a operations budget [...]
Are you ready for more touch screens in the enterprise? Windows 8 is an operating system built for touch. Whether its running on a PC, tablet or phone, its been designed around the touch being the main form of interaction. We already use touch screens regularly with our phones and tablets but how would they [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. It’s a new year and time for review of 2012. This coming year is an important one for anyone, but especially for IT and the CIO. In 2012, we’ve seen many more people talking about ‘change’ and having more involvement in owning technology from non-IT pieces of the [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just ran across Martin Davis’ article titled Who is IT’s Most Important Customer? What role does this play in Innovation? Its a good discussion starter…jump over and read it. Martin starts off by asking a lot of question…namely: Who should IT focus on as it’s customer? The internal customer [...]
If running an IT organization during a new operating system roll-out wasn’t hard enough, rolling out Windows 8 in today’s BYOD environment can make things much more difficult. Not only is a brand new Windows OS being rolled out with a completely new interface (with some functionality and focus on touchscreen capabilities, etc), a new focus [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Joel Dobbs published a great piece titled The Entrepreneurial CIO: Putting Innovation to Work over on the Enterprise CIO Forum. In the article, Joel points out some excellent ideas for CIO’s to use to start pushing innovation within the IT group. In the article Joel provides some great suggestions on building innovation IT [...]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months, you’ve seen the announcement of the release of Windows 8 from Microsoft. For individuals purchasing a new computer you’ll most likely be forced to buy one that has Windows 8 installed. This may cause some consternation at first with having to learn a [...]
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