Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Note: I love technology…believe me I do. I just really liked this photo I Just finished reading Implementing new technologies for the right reasons over on the Enterprise CIO Forum. The article, written by Martin Davis of Canada’s J D Irving Ltd, provides a nice reminder in today’s technology driven world. [...]
I just read an article describing the results of a Gartner survey of Chief Financial Officers and their opinions of IT and CIO’s. The article – CFOs increasingly calling the shots in IT from CIO magazine’s UK website – reports some very disturbing results. Before I report on the results, let’s look at the survey [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just finished reading a pretty good piece on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled Why your next job won’t be in IT by Paul Muller. The basis for the post, according to Paul, was a question asked of one of his colleagues about the future [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Christian Verstraete, HP’s Chief Technologist for the Cloud, wrote a nice piece over on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled Cloud, Evolution or Revolution? In that post, Mr. Verstraete asks the basic question – is “cloud computing is a revolution, a paradigm shift, or not“. The [...]
Ian Brodie wrote a nice piece last week titled Why “Finding the Pain” is a bad strategy that resonated with me. The approach that many companies and consultants take with clients and potential clients is to ‘find the pain’ and provide services to fix this ‘pain’. I’ve taken this approach many times myself with much [...]
I don’t think there’s anyone out there who would argue that the world of IT has become a complex one. The systems are complex. The processes are complex. The people are complex. And…the business is complex….and its getting complexier (I just made that word up!) Its tough enough for most IT organizations to keep the [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Bill Laberis had an interesting article on the Enterprise CIO Forum in late April titled Connecting IT and the business. In the article, Bill points to the latest CIO.com State of the CIO survey and that survey’s two top priorities for CIO’s in the next [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just finished watching the video on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled Challenge your CIOs: fear not always bad. Great video that everyone in IT needs to watch…and every CEO should watch too. My take-aways from the video are: 1.) The CEO really understands that [...]
I read an article over on CIOZone.com titled Should the CIO Head Up the Marketing Dept As Well? that left me speechless (for a minute at least). Initially, I wanted to believe the author was asking whether the CIO should head up marketing technology, but I don’t think that’s what the author was asking. I [...]
I heard a pretty good story recently. It goes something like this: A new CIO joins the company. He’s not completely new to the organization but he is new to the role and a new employee. Previously, he’d been running a couple of projects for an outsourced ‘partner’ within the organization and had ingratiated himself [...]
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