Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
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 [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Pearl Zhu posted a nice article over on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled Ready, Set, Go: CIO’s Top Ten Challenges. In that article, Pearl highlights the issues facing CIO’s and IT today…and does a good job of outlining why these issues exist. Nice article and worth the jump over to read [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Bill Laberis had an interesting article on the Enterprise CIO Forum in late April titled Connecting IT and the business. In the article, Bill points to the latest CIO.com State of the CIO survey and that survey’s two top priorities for CIO’s in the next [...]
Strategy…its a word that conjurs up a lot of images…some good and some bad. There are a lot of people writing and talking about strategy. There are tons of books. Lots of consultants and lots of material on the subject. There are many many millions of dollars spent each year on ‘strategy’. There are courses [...]
Lately, I’ve been having a lot of knee pain. For the last few months, its been constant and regular and seemed to get worse when I would spend a lot of time on my feet. My initial thought was that my years of powerlifting in high school was finally catching up to me and I [...]
Motivation Over Talent and Process by by Jurgen Appelo on NOOP.NL Quote: Processes are not enough to make people more competent. You need motivation first, or everything else won’t work. Estimation in an Almost Agile Shop by John F. Bauer III on Midwest IT Survival Quote: In order to meet a communicated business need within [...]
If you don’t know, my passion outside of technology, entrepreneurship and writing on this blog is photography. I’ve recently been spending even more time on that passion of mine…which is OK by me Don’t fret though…I still love thinking, and writing, about IT and people One of the photography blogs that I regularly follow is called “A Photo [...]
Over the few weeks, I’ve been writing a lot about IT and the future of IT. Most of those articles end up with me saying something like “think about the people in IT” or talking about having good people on your team. So…let me say it again….just to be clear: Its about the people. say [...]
I’ve said before that people are more important that process. I’ve said it in many different ways and in many different articles. After every article, I receive responses from readers similar to these: Processes are important. Processes drive the business to efficiency. Process drives execution. After receiving these types of responses, I always have to go back and [...]
Last week I wrote a long article titled Building Tomorrow’s Organization – without today’s IT? The purpose of that article was to walk through a ‘what if’ scenario centered around designing the organization of tomorrow without a single IT professional. I’d like to thank those that left feedback for providing exactly what I was looking [...]
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