Do you know Hutch Carpenter? You should. He write’s some awesome stuff over at I’m Not Actually a Geek.
Hutch recently wrote a post titled “Apple iPad and Google Buzz: Harsh Reality of Innovation” where he argues (successfully I think) that you’ve got to be OK with failure to really be innovative.
In the article Hutch points [...]
I recently stumbled across an article on TechRepublic titled “The seven habits of wildly unsuccessful CIOs” written by Karen Ann Kidd in 2003. The article is an interested read and provides seven things a CIO or CTO can do to ensure they are unsuccessful.
These seven habits are:
1. Acquire technology simply because it’s new
2. Exhibit a [...]
“I hate consultants.”
When I heard those words spill out of my lunch companion’s mouth as soon as we sat down, I knew it would be a long lunch meeting.
Some background
When I was an independent consultant I spent a lot of time in business development mode. Lots of time going to networking events and meeting new [...]
I’ve been sitting at my computer staring at the screen for a few minutes trying to come up with a topic for my weekly “New CIO” article. While waiting for inspiration to strike (i.e., surfing the web) I took a look at my Google Analytics account and noticed that the most visited article on my [...]
I’ve got a few pet peeves. Linear Thinking is one of them. Another one is talking about doing something but never doing it.
I’m not talking about ‘not following through’ on things. That’s a performance issue and one that can be addressed with some coaching and basic management skills.
What I’m talking about are those folks (or [...]
This is a short one….lots going on this week.
I got a lot of great feedback on a post I wrote titled “Consultants – Do we need them?“. In that post I argue that consultants are necessary…not a necessary evil mind-you…but a necessity for modern day IT organizations.
One of the lines of that struck a chord [...]
Last week I wrote about “Turbulence, IT & The New CIO” and discussed the need to embrace agility and speed in order to address the turbulence that we see in business today. In order to be agile, I mentioned the OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) model for use in helping keep agility at the front [...]
The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges.
I just completed reading The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World. Great book. Go buy it…the link above is an affiliate link or just go grab one from [...]
The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges.
I just read a ‘call for papers’ from Cutter IT Journal with the title “The Great Recession Fallout: Will CIOs Be Elevated or Exterminated?” It doesn’t look like they’ve posted this [...]
The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges.
A few months ago, I aksed a question on LinkedIn about the role of the CIO (read the original question & responses):
Will the CIO role change in the next 5 years? [...]
