Disaster Recovery – are you prepared?

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The events in Japan over the last week are heartbreaking….but there’s lessons to learn from these events. Elliot Ross has a great post titled Disaster Preparedness And Recovery with some excellent links to a write-up of a first person account from Japan called Some Perspectives on the Japan Earthquake. In that article, a description was [...]

Join me on InfoBOOM – a community for small and midsized business leaders

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I’ve just joined IBM’s InfoBOOM community. I hadn’t heard of InfoBOOM until last week when I was asked to join as one of their compensated experts.  I was intrigued by the offer and am happy they reached out to me.  While I am being compensated to write a few blog posts on InfoBOOM, I’m happy [...]

Small Business Technology Outsourcing

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I’ve been thinking about approaches to small business technology initiatives and whether it makes sense for small business to outsource a good portion of their IT infrastructure and platforms. Most of the things I’ve read on the topic of small business IT outsourcing has been fairly light in terms of advice for small business owners. [...]

Small Business IT Outsourcing – don’t go too far

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Can all of the information technology assets within a small business be outsourced?  Could we see the IT desks within small businesses be as empty as those in the photo? I hope not. The question of outsourcing all IT functions within a small business was asked of me by an acquaintance after she read two of [...]

Outsourcing, Value & Capabilities – Priorities for Small Business CIO’s

Small Business CIO Survey

Over the last few weeks I’ve been conducting a very unscientific survey of small business CIO’s, VP’s and Directors of IT. Using LinkedIn, I gathered a list of fifty people in the US who had the title of Chief Information Officer (CIO), Vice President of IT, or Director of IT with small businesses.  Note:  My [...]

Small Business CIO – Manager of Constraints

I received quite a few positive responses to my Small Business CIO post last week so I thought I’d continue the topic this week. Over the last few days I’ve been reading ReWork (affiliate link) by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson from 37Signals. Great book BTW…go pick it up now. In that book, the [...]

Links for April 18 2010

How to Defy Newton’s Laws of Motion in Marketing by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent: Quote: Emerging media allows you to develop laser focus in your marketing, act small while you take advantage of the following forces to scale as necessary, and thus gain momentum. How to make your ideas connect by Ed Brenegar on [...]

The Small Business CIO

I’ve been trying to catch up on my reading list. Most articles, books and blogs that I’ve been reading have been focused around CIO’s and IT organizations (surprise!). I’ve been reading some great stuff (and sharing most of it in my links posts or in other posts here or on CIO Essentials). The majority of [...]

Links for Oct 25 2009

How CIOs can sense if their companies are getting ready to fall? by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network 10 Tips on Building a Better Business by Ted Mininni on Marketing Profs Daily Fix Time to Take off the Web 2.0 / Social Media Gloves by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent Seven Elements of [...]

Seth Godin – You’re Boring

I read Seth Godin‘s post titled “You’re Boring” the other day and shrugged my shoulders.  OK Seth…most companies and products ARE boring…what’s new? Products have always been boring.  So have companies. I found myself bored with Seth after reading his “You’re Boring” post.  In the post, he writes: You don’t get unboring for free. Remarkable [...]