What’s your strategy?

Strategy & Implementation

Strategy. That one word can send shudders through many folks.  That one word has made millions and millions for consulting companies and consultants. Can you answer the question “what’s your strategy?”  Can everyone within your organization? If I were to talk to the front-line workers in your organization and ask them “what’s your strategy?”, will [...]

Links for May 30 2010

You Too Can Be a Strategy Consultant: Three Secret Tools Revealed by Charles H. Green on Trust Matters Quote: The art of general management and strategic consulting lies in the mastery of a few simple tools. Now, despite the inevitable threats against my person made by parties who do not want to see the Truth [...]

Links for May 23 2010

You’re Just the Founder « Steve Blank A great reminder to everyone that what you do today might just come back around to bite you in the future. Applying Behavioral Economics to Reduce Project Failures by Chris Curran on CIO Dashboard Very interesting take on using Behavioral Economics Theory to help with Project decision making. [...]

Links for May 9 2010

kindfully + mindfully by Leo Babuata on Zen Habits Quote: The Golden Rule goes something along the lines of, “Treat others as you’d want to be treated (in their place)”, but in another conception, how you treat others is how your treat yourself. It’s Not Idea Overload. It’s Filter Failure by Hutch Carpenter on Spigit [...]

The role of CIO going away?

Short answer?  Nope. Long answer?  Read on Vince Kellen does a great job arguing the point in a post titled “Echolalia: The CIO is Dead! Long Live the CIO!” on The Cutter Blog. Jump over and read it. Shameless Plug – Kellen was the Editor of the January 2010 Edition of the Cutter IT Journal [...]

Links for March 28 2010

I’m trying out a new approach to my link sharing posts. I’m now using delicious to capture the the articles that I want to share along with my notes. I then use a javascript call to pull the bookmarks for each week from delicious. Hope you get some value from this new approach.

Links for March 21 2010

Too Big to Trust? Or Too Untrustworthy to Scale? by Charles H. Green on Trust Matters Preach it Brother Edelman by Robbin Phillips on Brains On Fire Blog Marketing Can’t Be Controlled By a Dashboard by Jonathan Baskin on Baskin Dim Bulb The Key to Strategic Agility by Samuel B. Bacharach on The Bacharach Blog Winning [...]

Cheetah Learning – funny video ad for CAPM

Kristen over at Cheetah Learning, one of the best Project Management Training groups out there sent me a link to this YouTube video…..I love it! Why do ads have to be boring?  They don’t…and Cheetah has figured out a way to get their point across in a funny manner.    Enjoy the video…and if you’re looking [...]

Links for March 14 2010

Strategy Is Boring by Kneale Mann on One Mann’s Opinion Are you stress testing your IT strategies? by Christina Torode on TotalCIO Innovation and the Future by Jeffrey Phillips on Innovate on Purpose IT Leaders: Building the Next-Generation Bosses By Thomas Hoffman on CIOInsight Teaching Entrepreneurship – By Getting Out of the Building by Steve [...]

Do you have a technology strategy?

Gene asks “Is Cloud Computing part of your Strategic Plan?” While Gene’s question is a fair one, I have to ask a much simpler question….do you have a technology strategic plan? Or at the very least, do you discuss technology and/or IT in your organization’s strategic plan? I know its a simple question….but its an [...]