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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 [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. In the world of IT, we love processes and standards. We’ve built certifications and standards and processes. For the most part, this is a necessary thing. Without standards, processes and ‘best practices’, it’d be extremely difficult to control what’s going on within an organizations technology realm. Before I continue…that [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just read a short article on the Enterprise CIO Forum written by Charles Bess titled Landing a few points about cloud and the shifting expectations of a CIO. In the article, Charles talks about a few different things but one sentence really caught my eye. Charles wrote: [...]
I’m currently reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (amazon affiliate link). In one of the first few chapters, Dr. Kahneman describes the “invisible gorilla test” popularized by psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. The test consists of a team of 3 people dressed in black and a team of 3 people dressed in white [...]
Dave Brock just published a post that resonated with me. The title of the post – Order Taker or Solution Creator – hits home in the IT world. In the article, Dave describes what he calls ‘order takers’ and ‘solution creators’. The order taker does a good job of working with clients to deliver a widget [...]
I’ve spent the last two weeks with my head buried in programming languages. I’ve been needing to re-write some scripts for data analysis for my research. I initially wrote some scripts in R but found that R is particularly slow when it comes to this type of analysis (more accurately I should say that my implementation of these analysis techniques is [...]
Wow…2011 went by fast didn’t it? In Dec 2010, I put together a list of Recommended Books for the CIO / IT leader for 2011. That list was a good list with many CIO/IT related books as well as many non-IT related books. When I sat down to think about a list of books for 2012, [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Paul Muller, and HP Blogger published a post on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled Twelve thrilling (or terrifying) thoughts for IT in 2012. This time of year sees a lot of ‘prediction’ articles…most are worth the read and some aren’t. Paul’s is worth a quick read. Rather than lay out a [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Cloud computing is here to stay. Oh wait…I hate statements like that. Sorry about that. Statements like the above are made by people trying to defend the ‘cloud’ or whatever new or important product/service they are trying to sell today (or one they want to sell tomorrow). That [...]
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