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This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I spend a lot of time talking to IT professionals, managers and CIO’s as part of my job and as part of my ongoing networking activities. During our conversations, we talk about various topics but the most discussed topic seems to be around ‘value’ of the IT group [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. A new video over on the Enterprise CIO Forum with Bill Laberis in apost titled Are we setting CIOs up for failure?. Bill’s video is embedded below for your viewing. Its short but asks a good question – Are we setting the CIO up for failure? So…are we setting CIOs up for [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Martin Davis wrote a nice piece titled Is Consumerization of IT” really “Shadow IT” in disguise? where he asks a really great question….Is Consumerization of IT (which is something many people are talking about today) just another version of Shadow IT? I’ve written about Shadow IT many times in the past and will [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I’ve been writing for months (years?) about the changes coming to IT and the role of the CIO. My “New CIO” topic is littered with posts about the changes being seen today and those changes that are coming down the road. Many others have been writing about it [...]
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 [...]
Why marketing software will never be like ERP by Scott Brinker on Chief Marketing Technologist Quote: First and foremost, we must acknowledge: the entirety of marketing is in a perpetual state of disruptive innovation. Google changed everything. Then YouTube. Then Facebook. Then Twitter, Foursquare, Groupon, Quora. Apple has changed everything in mobile marketing and apps [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Myles Suer has published an article over on the Enterprise CIO Forum with a post titled IT Management should not begin and end with a spreadsheet and is now in contention for the Title of the Year. In the article, Myles writes about attending an event put on by HP at which attendees where [...]
The Story Teller CIO on Oh I See (CIO Inverted) Quote: Success is always a result of teamwork; the leader needs to give the team freedom to take decisions. When they succeed credit goes to them, when they do not, the leader takes the responsibility for lack of success. Such teams rarely need to be [...]
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 [...]
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