Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
The Simplicity Thesis by Aaron Levie on Fast Company Quote: When technology was inherently and unavoidably complex, it was forgivable that solutions weren’t elegant and simple. It was at one time understandable that finding and visiting a new doctor could take weeks, or searching for enterprise information wasn’t successful. But with a myriad of elegant [...]
Stop Blabbing About Innovation And Start Actually Doing It by Aaron Shapiro on Fast Company Quote: If your business can’t innovate, it won’t survive when the startup in the garage across town that doesn’t have to answer to your shareholders does all the things legal has been telling you that you can’t do, all the [...]
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 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 [...]
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, [...]
Five Common Strategy Mistakes by Joan Magretta on Harvard Business Review Quote: But as important as it is to have insight into customers’ needs, don’t confuse marketing with strategy. What the marketing-only approach misses is that a robust strategy also requires a tailored value chain, a unique configuration of activities that best delivers that kind [...]
The Job of a CIO – Content verses Context by John D. Halamka on Life as a Healthcare CIO Quote: Here’s a bold thought – might the context of being a CIO be nearly impossible in 2012 and beyond, requiring us to rethink the way that IT services are planned and delivered in the future? [...]
What cloud boils down to for the enterprise By James Urquhart on GigaOm – Cloud Computing News Quote: What you do bring to the table–er, service–is code, data, configuration metadata and/or policies that are, in fact, what makes any cloud service valuable to you as an individual or an organization. Your task in consuming a [...]
Don’t Sell Technology, Sell Magic by Ben Yoskovitz on instigator blog Quote: Customers want results. They’re attracted to products that delight them. They’re impressed by startups that communicate and respond quickly to their issues. They want value, and they want you to fit seamlessly into their lives. They want a lot. Really: they want magic. [...]
The paradox of expectations by Seth Godin Quote: Perhaps it’s worth considering no expectations. Intense effort followed by an acceptance of what you get in return. It doesn’t make good TV, but it’s a discipline that can turn you into a professional. Of private clouds and zero-sum games by JP Rangaswami on confused of calcutta [...]
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