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This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. A new video over on the Enterprise CIO Forum with Bill Laberis in apost titled Are we setting CIOs up for failure?. Bill’s video is embedded below for your viewing. Its short but asks a good question – Are we setting the CIO up for failure? So…are we setting CIOs up for [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Martin Davis wrote a nice piece titled Is Consumerization of IT” really “Shadow IT” in disguise? where he asks a really great question….Is Consumerization of IT (which is something many people are talking about today) just another version of Shadow IT? I’ve written about Shadow IT many times in the past and will [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. There’s a great video over on the Enterprise CIO Forum with Enterprise CIO Forum editorial director Bill Laberis describing how CIO’s can leverage the ‘anxiety’ present withing IT Staff today. The video, titled Leveraging the anxiety in your IT staff, initially put me off…when anyone talks about ‘leveraging’ things like anxiety…I [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Focus. Such a small word but with huge meaning. In the world of photography, focus can mean the difference between creating a timeless photograph or an out of focus snapshot. As a baseball player, focus is the difference between striking out and getting on base for the batter…and [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I’ve been writing for months (years?) about the changes coming to IT and the role of the CIO. My “New CIO” topic is littered with posts about the changes being seen today and those changes that are coming down the road. Many others have been writing about it [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. The Cloud. We all know about it. We are probably all tired of every blog talking about the Cloud. Some call the Cloud a fad. Some call it the trend of the future. Others…call the Cloud reality. So which is it… Trend, fad or reality? All three. Yes…all [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Myles Suer has published an article over on the Enterprise CIO Forum with a post titled IT Management should not begin and end with a spreadsheet and is now in contention for the Title of the Year. In the article, Myles writes about attending an event put on by HP at which attendees where [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. We in the IT world like to talk a lot about the ‘new’ IT, the future of IT and the the need for IT to ‘change’. Whether that change is focused on aligning with the business, being more agile, moving to the cloud or just plain providing ‘value’ [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. The Enterprise CIO Forum currently has two articles having to do with Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). The first, titled The Magnificent 7: KPIs to help IT perform better by Myles Suer, has a nice run-down of what Myles believes are the top 7 KPI’s for improving the performance of IT [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. It seems like every month, a new article and/or new research is released proclaiming that the timing is perfect for a new type of “Chief” in the world of technology. Chief Collaboration Officer. Chief Content Officer. Chief Marketing Technology Officer. Chief Security Officer. etc. etc. Each time I read one of [...]
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