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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: [...]
The Danger of Imitation by Kevin Eikenberry Quote: Observe and learn from others who have been where you are going. But don’t lose yourself on that journey. Who you are is far too important for that. It’s Always About Leadership by Art Petty on Management Excellence Quote: If you’ve been given the responsibility and the [...]
The Human Marketing Manifesto by Russ Somers on russsomers.com Quote: I am not a lead, I am a person. A human being with human concerns….I was not ‘generated’ by submitting a lead form. I was generated by my parents many years back after a bottle of wine. I existed long before I clicked ’submit’ to [...]
To Know, But Not to Understand by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent Quote: We rely, in other words, on a random accumulation of localised knowledge about people, their backgrounds and various behavioural signals. What if we could pool all those circles of wisdom together and extract a common currency for evaluating everyone’s levels of expertise, [...]
Happy New Year! You Don’t Live in the World You Were Born Into by Mark Cuban on blog maverick Quote: “If you are looking where everyone else is for the next big thing, you are looking in the wrong place” Stop whining and start hiring remote workers by David Heinemeier Hansson on 37signals Quote: Every [...]
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 [...]
IT anti-patterns: reverse behavior lessons from Steve Jobs by Peter Kretzman on CTO/CIO Perspectives Quote: Unfortunately, for every Jobs out there with magical instincts about what will work and a track record to prove it, there are thousands of us lesser souls creating products without such infallible insight into what customers really need. Solve Human [...]
I just ran across an interesting research report titled “Doomed from the Start? Why a majority of business and IT teams anticipate their software development projects will fail” The report provides the results of a survey completed by 596 IT and Business executives with the majority of respondents being IT professionals (476 out of 596 [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. The 8th Annual CSO Magazine State of the CSO report was released last month – I finally got my hands on a copy. Thanks Colin! Sidenote: Nice timing on finding this report since October is Cyber Security Month….read more on getting prepared for Cyber Security Month in Jerry Bishop’s [...]
Rethinking Measurement by Jamie Notter Quote: …rethinking your metrics is probably a GREAT way to start changing some trajectories. Measure different things, and at different intervals, with the intention of actually learning more about your system and how it operates. That can lead to some behavior that changes trajectories. You won’t know the answer when [...]
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