Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
The Commoditization of Scale by Maxwell Wessel on Harvard Business Review Quote: So what’s the solution? Accept that everything becomes commoditized. Develop a strategy that doesn’t simply rely on being the biggest. Develop a strategy — a difficult to replicate, cogent set of practices in an industry — that assumes everyone will have the advantages [...]
The Triple Constraint They DON’T Teach You In Project Management School by Timothy Johnson on carpe factum Quote: An experienced project manager will size up the trade-offs needed to complete the project. You try to do too much (rigor) in an immature (ability) organization with an unyielding culture and… oops. Try to do too little [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. While drinking my cup of coffee this morning, I sat down to watch a video highlighted over on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled SAIC cyber security: “We eat our own dogfood”. In the video, SAIC’s CEO Walt Haverstein and CIO Charles Beard talk about their approach to security, innovation and [...]
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 [...]
In 1968, Dick Fosbury won the Olympic Gold Medal for the High Jump. While winning the gold, Fosbury popularized the “Fosbury Flop“….a style of approaching and clearing the high jump bar that hadn’t been used previously. Prior to the ’68 Olympic games, most high jumpers used ‘the straddle’, the ‘western roll‘ or some other style [...]
Three Questions that Will Kill Innovation – Tony Golsby-Smith – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review Quote: …innovation runs counter to so many of the standard tests and processes that make businesses (and executives) successful. It’s hard to accept that innovation requires exploring unknown territory via a winding road — you cannot see around the [...]
The New New CIO Role: Big Changes Ahead By Thomas Wailgum on CIO.com Quote: CIOs themselves are in the midst of a make-or-break personal change-management project: CIOs who can only take orders, who can’t speak the language of the business, who can’t step out of the proverbial back-office and into the front lines of customer [...]
Competition is overrated by Chris Dixon on cdixon.org Quote: Startups are primarly competing against indifference, lack of awareness, and lack of understanding — not other startups. For web startups this means you should worry about users simply not coming to your site, or when they do come, hitting the BACK button. Why Can’t My CIO [...]
IT’s Three Key Organizational Transformations by Andrew McAfee on Harvard Business Review’s Blog Quote: I see companies in all industries using computers to accomplish three broad and deep transformations: they’re becoming more scientific, more orchestrated, and more self-organizing. None of these is complete yet, and I doubt that they ever will be. This is because [...]
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