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The shift from information to intelligence requires an analytics foundation that can unleash the power of data

Proper data integration and management will help you spend less time sifting through data and more time divining insights from it.

The role of Chief Data Officer plays a critical role in data-driven transformation. But only if they’re set up to succeed.

Marketing data lakes help data analysts collaborate with customer-facing teams to predict behaviors, personalize offers, and improve engagement.

Machine learning will not replace humans in the security chain, but it can help IT professionals monitor data access and system security effectively.  

Many organizations are jumping on the big data bandwagon (rightfully so). A good portion of them aren't thinking about data quality before data analytics.

A 'rockstar' on paper means little of that person isn't able or willing to get the job done.

You (and your company) probably don't need machine learning. Most companies just need good data management with good regression modeling.

I spend a lot of time talking to companies about big data and data science. Many conversations are with people at the CxO level (CEO's, COO's, CFO's, etc

Will marketing continue to grow their technology budget? I think so.

The three roadblocks to big data success are: Starting too fast, Going too big and Corporate Culture

A recent report from Tech Pro research sheds some light on Innovation and the CIO role within organizations

Are CEO's and CIO's aligned when it comes to digital transformation? based on an IDC survey, the answer may be no.

Open data allows organizations to take the fullest advantage of the world of big data.

We are just the keepers of the data and need to think about systems and processes that allow the organization to use that data.

Today's data challenge is the same one that has plagued organizations for years. Data and analysis are useless unless you actually act on them.

Collecting and analyzing data means nothing if you do not use it for more than taking up storage space. That is wasted money and time.

In order to use data within your business, you must first collect that data. Seems simple enough right?  You capture some data, store it somewhere and the

In “Big Data, Big Analytics and You”, I wrote: “Big data is obviously important to most organizations. There’s plenty of data out there and even more data

Is bit data worth it? Absolutely...but only if you put the time and effort into the analysis of that data. Big data isn't easy, but it is worth it.

Make sure you have the tools and skills in place to analyze / use what you have before you go and add 'more' to the mix.

I just finished reading a great article titled "The Most Important Question You Can Ask: Then What?" In the article, the author writes: The great art of

I just ran across an article titled "The CIO balancing act: agility, innovation, cost savings" over on The Enterprisers Project. If you haven't stumbled

I’ve said a few times that the data center of today isn’t the data center of yesterday nor is it the data center of tomorrow. In fact, in “The Data Center

I’ve been writing about agility within the data center and IT group recently. I truly believe the future of IT (and the business) requires that those of

It seems like every article you read about technology today includes a service delivered in an ‘-As-A-Service’ approach. We have an abundance of

I read a lot of blogs and articles talking about the cloud. Many of these articles try to go really deep into the technology stack found within the cloud

If you ask one hundred people (or companies) what it means to have an agile data center, you’ll most likely get a large number of diverse answers. While

If there was one time that a data center and an IT group absolutely need to be agile, it would be the time immediately after a disaster strikes. Disaster

The data center of tomorrow will look much differently than the data center of today. That particular sentence should not be that surprising to anyone

Mark Thiele published a post recently titled "Why we Value IT Incorrectly - Innovation vs Cost Center."  You should go read it. If you don't follow Mark's

If you’ve spent any time within IT over the last few years, you’ve probably heard the term ‘cloud’ more than you really wanted to. The cloud has become

In a recent Harvard Business Review article titled “Don’t Ask for New Ideas If You’re Not Ready to Act on Them”, Ron Ashkenas provides an example of a

An agile business requires an equally agile IT group. The future of IT depends on transforming into an efficient, nimble part of the business.

I’ve written a bit about the agile data center lately. I’ve previously defined the agile data center as something that “allows organizations to

To compete in the future, CIOs need to build agile teams alongside agile data centers. An agile infrastructure requires agile people to run it.

CIO Magazine has released their "2015 State of the CIO" report.  I look forward to this report every year as it provides some great insight into the minds

Some say the IT group and CIO are irrelevant. I disagree. The New CIO can make IT more relevant than ever before.

I just read "Businesses prefer to cut in-house costs than challenge providers of outsourced services, survey finds" and just had to write a bit about the

Do you want to be a supply chain CIO focused on operations or a Strategic CIO focus on adding business value?

I just read "The Four Malfunctions of a CIO" by Joe Scherrer and wanted to expand a but on what Joe writes about.   Before I do that, let me share the

Big data and analytics is no longer about the size or type of data but about how fast data can be converted into useful business information.

Building the Agile Data Center requires new thinking and a new approaches found in Software Defined Data Center technologies.

Companies no longer want a controller of technology. They want a leader who can demystify IT and help them use technology to deliver real value.

CIOs should not bemoan their predicament. They should see it as an opportunity to reshape their job, career, and the IT group's role.

The CIO doesn't need to be sidelined. By focusing on relationships, clients and leadership CIO's can ensure they are helping to lead the organization.

Are you managing risk within your organization or are you avoiding risk? As a CIO, you should help the organization manage risk.

An agile data center lets organizations add, remove, and change services at the speed of the business, not the speed of technology.

With proper planning, the cloud brings ultimate mobility to an organization while providing data security and access from anywhere in the world.

The cloud brings flexibility and allows you to optimize your data center to deliver what your organization needs today and tomorrow.

Over on the Enterprisers Project, David A. Bray, the CIO of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), was recently interviewed about his use of

You don't need Hadoop for big data, but it is a great fit. Hadoop provides the underlying platform for analyzing very large data sets at scale.

Convergence delivers fast, efficient implementation of processing power, storage, and networking in a contained system that can be managed together.

Converged systems allow organizations to easily scale processing power, storage, and functionality to meet future data center needs.

Marketing isn't shortchanging IT. IT has shortchanged itself by failing to lead organizations into the digital world. Time for the CIO to step up.

I received an email this week pointing me to a nice article over on The Enterprisers Project titled "CIO's: Stay Relevant With This Advice From 7 Veteran

Big data is about more than just finding new revenue streams or finding ways to bring in more revenue from existing customers.

I recently ran across a survey titled "Big Data's Biggest Role - Aligning the CMO & CIO" that was put together by the CMO Council and SAS. The survey,

If you ask 100 people to define the value that data brings an organization, you’ll most likely get 150 different answers. Yes...that’s right...150

I'm often asked the following question: What is the difference between Business Intelligence and Big Data? Before getting into my approach to answering

While doing a bit of research on the role of the CIO for an article I was writing earlier this week, I ran across this definition of Chief Information

We’ve been living with the “IT Transformation” phrase for quite a while. I remember hearing and reading about how IT groups were ‘transforming’ themselves

I've been writing about the "New CIO"  for almost 5 years and I finally feel like there's some real change coming to the CIO role and subsequently, to the

Isaac Sacolick recently wrote a post titled Dear CIO, Here's How To Help the CMO with Marketing Automation where he talked about the need for CIO's and

Sponsored by Dimension Data. I just finished reading through the Dimension Data Secure Enterprise Mobility Report.The report is a nice report on how

Sponsored by Dimension Data. In Thinking about Robust Strategies for BYOD and Mobile, I wrote:  A robust strategy for BYOD and mobility requires a

While working technology selection projects, one feature that I like to look at is flexibility. In the past, flexibility wasn’t exactly a feature that was

Sponsored by Dimension Data. BYOD is a reality today. Organizations have been trying to figure out how to manage this new 'bring your own device' (BYOD)

While having my morning coffee this morning, I was reading through my emails and caught Martha Heller's "The Heller Report".  Martha's report is one of

I just read Tom Catalini's "Everybody Knows IT, But They Still Need Help" where he wrote: People know IT now. But they also need help. That’s not

We've all been there. Sitting in a meeting listening to a vendor pitch their solution. They bring a team in to your organization and spend a few hours

Last week, I read with interest the announcement that IBM was opening up their Watson computing platform to outside organizations and developers to use to

I just read Why IBM Will Win the War With Amazon Web Services over on CIO.com and felt the need to publish my own thoughts. In that article, the author

The cloud is quite hyped these days - and rightfully so. The cloud brings quite a bit of productivity and cost savings to organizations as well as a

Open cloud technology lets companies build their own cloud platform while making it available to partners and other organizations for collaboration.

Finding the right people has always been a problem for IT organizations for many reasons. There’s always been a “build or buy” decision for organizations

IT pros should welcome the opportunity to disrupt their own services and processes. It prevents complacency and opens new ways to add value.

I just finished reading an article written by John Mason titled When Small Businesses Use Cloud and Mobile to Go Global” over on IBM’s Smarter Planet

IBM just published a very nice video focused on the Midmarket and working with Managed Service Providers (MSP's). I've embedded the video below - please

Last week, I had a conversation with a CIO of a mid-sized firm. The organization has been struggling with incorporating the cloud into their technology

Originally published on Its All About Recovery as Do the Hard Work Today for an Easier Tomorrow. Two years ago, you and your team spent a great deal of

Originally published on Its All About Recovery as The Tale of the Tape. Back in my younger days, I worked in IT operations. One of the projects that

Originally published on Its All About Recovery as Service Level Agreements – Real Guarantees or Empty Legalese? I had a conversation recently with the CIO

A CIO I spoke with last week mentioned that she and her team are struggling with their BI solution today. The solution works perfectly for analyzing their

Originally Published at Its All About Recovery as Is Your Data Really Protected? You've spent a great deal of time and money getting your SaaS application

Many Small and Mid-sized Businesses (SMB's) have moved to the cloud for a portion or in some instances, all, of their IT application needs. Most

I had the pleasure of moderating / hosting a twitter chat yesterday (Tuesday April 30 2013) involving the topic of Innovation & the CIO using the

First it was laptop computers, now its tablets. The enterprise is getting more mobile and IT groups have to find ways to ensure security can keep up. This

I've written about the topic "Bring your own Device" (BYOD) in the past but I never really touched on the issue of what BYOD does for IT complexity. Does

This post is brought to you by VMware and their Online Forum 2013 Event Last weekend, I spent some time talking with an old friend. He's the CIO of a

Are you ready for more touch screens in the enterprise? Windows 8 is an operating system built for touch.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. It's a new year and time for review of 2012.  This coming year is an important one for anyone, but

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just ran across Martin Davis' article titled Who is IT’s Most Important Customer? What role does

If running an IT organization during a new operating system roll-out wasn't hard enough, rolling out Windows 8 in today's BYOD environment can make things

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Joel Dobbs published a great piece titled The Entrepreneurial CIO: Putting Innovation to Work over

Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few months, you've seen the announcement of the release of Windows 8 from Microsoft. For individuals

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. My post last week titled A Marketing Technology Office...the next fad? got some interesting

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. John Dodge posted a video over on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled "Enter the chief marketing

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just finished reading Rafal Los' piece on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled Hiring information

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Complex can be good. Processes can be complex and still work just fine. Complex is often the

How do we educate users about security dangers without boring them while remaining open to change and new platforms?

Educate organization to Trust but Verify.Education is expensive but should be looked at as another line-item toward securing the organization.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. First off...if you aren't familiar with the boogeyman, its the bad person in stories that are

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Following up my Data Disconnect and Shadow IT post from yesterday, I wanted to talk about the 2nd

Your data might remain in that vacuum. But worse….whatever knowledge that data might create (or has created) will remain in that vacuum as well.

You will not snuff out Shadow IT. But by educating and communicating, you can lead your organization's technology initiatives instead of playing catchup.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I want to share a story with you. Its a story about how an approach

An analysis of twitter messages using the #CIO hashtag and captured / analyzed for patterns and information.

Most people in the IT world are Professionals...but it only takes a few Fanboys to ruin it for everyone.

Making IT Costs more Transparent - IT and the business need a way to communicate more transparently about costs.

A visualization of the #CIO Twitter stream from data collected July 16 to July 18.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. What have you done for me lately? If you've grown up in the world of IT, you probably either get

I like the idea but don't know many organizations where this system wouldn't be seen immediately as 'gimmicky' but I'm going to be thinking more about it.

What if you build a gamification platform as a rewards platform for IT professionals to share knowledge within IT and outside of IT, do you think it would work?

But...the real question (to me) is: Have we outsourced the right stuff?

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Here's an interesting thought experiment. Assume you got promoted.  Maybe you've just moved from

Change happens...and when it does, you should have your plans in place to move. These plans should then allow you to move fast and move true.

There are no external solutions to your internal problems. Before looking outside, take a look at yourself and your team first.

That's the difficult part of working in IT and leading IT. Showing value while also delivering on that value.

Are we setting CIOs and IT groups up for failure by asking too much, or assuming they cannot adapt to deliver what the organization needs?

Denial and lack of alternatives drive people outside IT for solutions. The consumerization of IT is just another name for Shadow IT.

Leveraging anxiety within your team can improve skill sets, but be careful. Consistently providing growth opportunities is a better approach.

To focus on the right things, first wade through information overload to find the right knowledge. Only then can real focus begin.

CIOs and IT pros face a choice: keep the lights on or drive new technology initiatives. The role is changing, and now is the time to step up.

The cloud is here to stay, but let us stop calling it the next big thing. It is simply another infrastructure option for organizations.

When you hear 'Nobody knows what we do till it breaks,' stop and ask the nearest non-IT person how you can help solve their problems.

IT talks endlessly about change but rarely acts. Whether it's a revolution or evolution, something needs to happen. It's time to do more than talk.

Choose KPIs that work for your organization. Leading indicators help you pivot quickly, but the right lagging indicators can work just as well.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. It seems like every month, a new article and/or new research is released proclaiming that the

The CIO challenge: allow everyone to be different while keeping a handle on the things that need to be secured and protected.

It is time to change the default sign of IT from subtraction to addition. Start adding value to the organization and attitudes will follow.

I'm currently reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (amazon affiliate link). In one of the first few chapters, Dr. Kahneman describes the

Dave Brock just published a post that resonated with me. The title of the post - Order Taker or Solution Creator - hits home in the IT world. In the

I've spent the last two weeks with my head buried in programming languages. I've been needing to re-write some scripts for data analysis for my research.

Wow...2011 went by fast didn't it? In Dec 2010, I put together a list of Recommended Books for the CIO / IT leader for 2011. That list was a good list

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Paul Muller, and HP Blogger published a post on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled Twelve thrilling

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Cloud computing is here to stay. Oh wait...I hate statements like that.  Sorry about that.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. In my last post titled Driving transformation with IT starts with transforming IT, I pointed out a

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I was just perusing the Enterprise CIO Forum and noticed the video of Canadian Pacific's CIO

We all like to think that we are that one person in our family, team or company that is irreplaceable. The bad thing...most of us are replaceable.

A CIO and A CMO walk into a bar... ...except...they aren't in the same bar. They made plans to meet at Good Time Charlies on Monday.   You know - the CMO

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. The 8th Annual CSO Magazine State of the CSO report was released last month - I finally got my

I've been reading a lot lately about the 'love affair' between Chief Information Officer's and Chief Marketing Officer's around the world. I think this is

Last night, I watched Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations show on the Travel Channel. I'm a fan of Mr. Bourdain's...I read (actually listened) to Kitchen

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. While drinking my cup of coffee this morning, I sat down to watch a video highlighted over on the

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Think about the CIO's that you know...or...if you are a CIO, take a hard look at yourself. As we

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

I'm starting to see more people talk about the real need for change within  IT groups.  The big analyst/consulting companies (Forester, Garnter, etc) are

I've been writing about The New CIO for a little over 2 years and I still see many of the same issues within IT shops and CIO offices that I saw in 2009.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Note: I love technology...believe me I do.  I just really liked this photo :) I Just finished

I just read an article describing the results of a Gartner survey of Chief Financial Officers and their opinions of IT and CIO's. The article -  CFOs

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just finished reading a pretty good piece on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled Why your next job

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Christian Verstraete, HP's Chief Technologist for the Cloud, wrote a nice piece over on the

Ian Brodie wrote a nice piece last week titled Why "Finding the Pain" is a bad strategy that resonated with me. The approach that many companies and

I don't think there's anyone out there who would argue that the world of IT has become a complex one. The systems are complex. The processes are complex.

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

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just finished watching the video on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled Challenge your CIOs: fear

I read an article over on CIOZone.com titled Should the CIO Head Up the Marketing Dept As Well? that left me speechless (for a minute at least).

I heard a pretty good story recently.  It goes something like this: A new CIO joins the company. He's not completely new to the organization but he is new

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just finished watching an interview titled Cloud benefits are speed, simplicity and resource

I've been reading a lot of new blogs lately. Not really sure what I've been looking for, but I feel like something is missing. I feel like I've been

"I own the technology, you own the content" Those eight words are shared every single day between an IT professional and a Marketing professional. Some

In 1968, Dick Fosbury won the Olympic Gold Medal for the High Jump. While winning the gold, Fosbury popularized the "Fosbury Flop"....a style of

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. In my last post on application modernization, titled Application Modernization – “Plumbing

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Application Modernization....only two words...but two words that denote a big undertaking for most

Neil Pearce just published a very nice piece titled "It is all about The Customer". Go read it. In the article, Neil argues that IT needs to focus on

I've spent the few weeks working on my taxes. Fun Fun, right? It's actually not too bad to be honest...our tax situation isn't too terribly convoluted but

In the IT world, we tend to take a single-minded approach to our technology platforms.   We have email systems. We have web systems. We have HR and

After my last post on the topic of Reinventing IT, I decided to think about the different aspects of actually reinventing IT and what it might actually

There's been some excellent content and discussions recently about reinventing IT.  Mark McDonald at Gartner has been talking / writing about the subject

I wanted to follow up to my last post (For Models for Success for the CTO / CIO - CTOVision) with a few quick thoughts on the The External-facing

Bob Gourley wrote a nice piece in 2009 titled The Role of the CTO: Four Models for Success where he describes an article by Tom Berray of the same title.

A few weeks ago, I was asked by the folks over at InfoBOOM to provide my predictions for 2011 for technology, business and IT. After receiving that

This is based on a true story...its long but worth it...I hope. As long as Little Johnny could remember, he wanted to be 'the boss'. He came from a long

This was originally posted on InfoBoom.  Reposting here for my regular readers. I recently wrote a post titled Social - A Culture, not a tool that

We are quickly coming up to the end of 2010.  Most people are winding down for the holidays....perfect time to grab a few good books during the down time.

If you're organization is like most, you've got a lot of legacy IT systems.   Most of those legacy systems require a lot of maintenance. Most of those

Over on InfoBOOM yesterday I wrote a post titled The Cloud and The Silo where I discussed one of the current challenge of CIO's and IT groups today - that

A few months ago I wrote a post titled Cognitive Dissonance & IT. From that post, you'll remember that cognitive dissonance is: an uncomfortable

Mark McDonald over on Gartner's blog network wrote a great piece this week titled Everything is up for grabs, making it a great time to be in IT. In the

I've been reading Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath (amazon affiliate link).   If you haven't read the

Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft. After it was announced that he was leaving, he published a memo on his blog. The memo, titled Dawn of  a New Day,  is an

As promised in earlier posts (here and here), its time to talk about the two main issues that cause problems between the CIO and the CMO. In CIO’s vs

Some smart-ass (like me) will probably say "1 letter"....but let's dive into that question a little more deeply. Last week, in an article titled "CIO's

Improve end-user workforce productivityEarlier this week I wrote a post titled "The relationship between the CIO and CMO?" where I reported on a survey

CIO.com has an article titled "CMOs and CIOs: Can This Relationship Be Saved?" where they discuss surveys results released by the CMO Council and

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

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

Passion. What type of emotion is evoked when you read it or hear that word? What do you think of when you think of passion? Do you think about your job?

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'

A few weeks ago I wrote about The diminishing role of IT and the CIO.  That post struck a nerve with quite a few readers so I wanted to expand on the

In a previous article titled The Future of IT & the CIO - Redux of the DoDo I pointed to some survey results that should be alarming to most IT

I love peanut butter and jelly.  What a great idea to put those to food items together on a piece of bread. Have you ever thought about how much the

Cognitive Dissonance has been defined on Wikipedia as an "uncomfortable tension caused by holding contradictory thoughts simultaneously". A similar

Danny Brown recently wrote a post titled "Consider This" where he writes a Seth Godin type of post (that's a compliment by the way).  In the post, Danny

Rackspace has just announced their open source cloud platform, OpenStack in collaboration with NASA. While the open source world has been a viable area

I've just started reading Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (affiliate link) by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown.  Actually...I've only

Mark McDonald, of Gartner, offers some excellent tips for IT planning for 2011 in a post titled Three things to think about as you plan for 2011.  In the

Image by Aprile C via Flickr I'm in Atlanta this week on business. I decided to stay at a nice little boutique hotel in midtown called the Artmore Hotel.

I really dislike it when I hear someone in IT say that its time 'run IT as a business'. Why? Because both terms normally convey a sense of importance upon

In my post earlier this week, I spoke, or more accurately typed, about the importance of story. I wonder if there are any CIO's and IT leaders out there

Hey CIO - if you want to survive, you need to figure out a way to fascinate your organization. I'm currently reading "Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to

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

The future of the information technology group  has been determined...and it doesn't look good. See that bird over there? That's the Dodo.  He's extinct.

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

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

Technical Excellence is something we all strive for in areas that we care about. We all want to be really good at something don't we? It takes a long time

I'm a bit slow on my reading lately....so bear with me as I catch up. Just read through the 2010 State of the CIO Survey published by CIO.com. A few

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

Did you catch the news earlier this week?   Gene De Libero and I started a new blog titled "CIO Essentials".  Gene and I have known each other for a few

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

Do you know your IT staff? Do you regularly communicate with them? If you do, good for you. If not, you're missing out on a wonderful opportunity to build

Are you innovating or imitating? Anywhere you go these days, you'll find someone talking or writing about Innovation.  Most of  the stuff I've been

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

"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.

Short post this week as I'm swamped and haven't had time to work anything up....but I wanted to take a quick second to ask my readers to give me some CIO

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

I just finished reading "Managing" by Henry Mintzberg. Great book. What's so great about it?  It provides a good reminder that being a good manager is

I've been sitting here thinking. Gene De Libero say's I'm always thinking...not sure if that's good or bad! :) What have I been thinking about?  Lots of

George Bailey needed a guardian angel. CIOs don't — they just need to look at their own team. Lessons from It's a Wonderful Life for technology leaders.

I ran across a press release from Progress Software, that I though worth sharing with my regular The New CIO series readers. Below, you'll find an excerpt

In a previous article titled "Leading by saying No", I implore CIO's to lead their organization by saying 'no' whenever necessary. As I said in that

Early this week, I asked a question to my readers (and myself). The question was "What's your focus?" and immediately after publishing the post, I read a

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

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

In the world of  technology we tend to use either really big words, really small words and/or acronyms. What do you think of when you think of  'the

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

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

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

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

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. My wife and I took a

Hi all - I'm on vacation enjoying the wonderful scenery in Yellowstone & The Grand Tetons...I'll be back next week for a new article in The New CIO

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. There's lots of

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. So you want to be a

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