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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: [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I was just perusing the Enterprise CIO Forum and noticed the video of Canadian Pacific’s CIO Heather Campbell titled Canadian Pacific CIO transforms IT function. In the video, the CIO describes the transformation if the Canadian Pacific IT group and their long road from an ‘under-performing’ group that was [...]
I’m starting to see more people talk about the real need for change within IT groups. The big analyst/consulting companies (Forester, Garnter, etc) are putting out a lot of ‘change’ blog posts and articles…see Khalid Kark’s The New CIO — Embrace The Empowered Era Or Step Aside or most of Mark McDonald‘s stuff on his Garnter blog [...]
I’ve been writing about The New CIO for a little over 2 years and I still see many of the same issues within IT shops and CIO offices that I saw in 2009. Thankfully, Forrester has now decided to write about the topic. Gosh..they are slow. In an article titled The New CIO — Embrace The [...]
I ran across a great post this morning over on Boy Genius Report titled Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec tells all as company crumbles around him. Its a long letter but very very insightful. First off there are a lot of lessons to learn from that letter. A couple of key sentences: You have many [...]
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 was originally posted on InfoBoom. Reposting here for my regular readers. I recently wrote a post titled Social – A Culture, not a tool that describes a “light bulb moment” that a friend of mine had when thinking about Social media’s use in marketing and PR. In that post, I outline how a friend [...]
I’ve been reading Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath (amazon affiliate link). If you haven’t read the book…check it out…some good insight into why people change…and why they don’t. The basic premise of the book is that most change efforts fail. Change efforts don’t fail just [...]
I don’t normally do this, but I wanted to do a little self-promotion with this first link: Eric D. Brown’s Engineering Approach by Ron Egatz on The Induro Blog (an overview of me as photographer) Ok…back to sharing other’s great work: Little, inexpensive things mean a lot by Mark Riffey on Business is Personal Want [...]
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