Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
I’ve written before about the constraints that hit small businesses when it comes to IT. Constraints are everywhere, but one area that I’ve always found them is within the technology / IT space of small businesses. On a previous article titled Small Business CIO – Manager of Constraints, I discussed the development of options for [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Big Data is a Big story these days and has been for some time. Big Data is a big business too….and will most likely continue to grow. Big Data is a topic that many in large organizations are talking about…as are many consulting and technology companies. HP, among [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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