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I'm regularly asked about how to get started with big data. My response is always the same: I give them my big data roadmap for success.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The infrastructure for a full-time mobile business is in place today. The backbone is reliable enough for employees to work from anywhere.

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

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,

This Transformation Feels Different. Disruptively So. Quote:The drawing board for all of these newly created disruptors isn’t a better retail store or a

Cloud security is not an oxymoron Quote: I get it: there is a lot of data that can’t move to the cloud, not because IT managers don’t understand the

Fulltime IT hiring is in; CIOs who can’t manage change are on the way out Quote: What does this mean for CIOs? According to Lane, the most important trait

A social media contrarian speaks out on the limited value of tweet analytics Quote: Tools are becoming more powerful and easier to use, so we have that.

On Being Present And Engaged Quote: Catching peoples’ time, capturing their attention is a huge challenge for all of us.  When we finally do, we need to

The new CIO challenge: Assembling the right combo of human and machine smarts Quote: Business peers are tech savvy, customers are plugged into your

Time to rethink your business model Quote: If your business model is so obsolete that the only way to make money is to extract fees when your customers

Shadow IT: Far Bigger, Less Manageable And More Important Than You Think Quote: Even when lines of business initiate technology purchases, it is

Leading IT Through Trust and Ownership Quote: I need my entire IT staff to think “outside / in” by learning about and caring about the lives of our

16 Leadership Lessons from a Four Star General Quote: Rank, authority, and even responsibility can be inherited or assigned, whether or not an individual

Google Flu Trends' Failure Shows Good Data > Big Data - Kaiser Fung - Harvard Business Review Quote: The amount of data still tends to dominate

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

Midwest IT Survival » Evolution of Corporate IT and the Future Impact of Cloud Quote: All in all, corporate IT is in constant evolution. The rate of

6 IT Strategies to Stay Ahead of Data Center Trends - CIO.com Quote: Automation, virtualization, cloud computing -- these technology trends are

Three Steps to Improving Business-IT Alignment Quote: Whether we call it business-IT alignment or not, the desired state for a CIO is to be respected and

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

Midsize Insider: Cloud FTW (For the Win) – How Gaming Developers are Driving a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Using Open Standards, Cloud Quote: We are

What's Your Story? Quote: Taking our corporate strategy, translating it into traceable, optimizable metrics, and using our data and models in a

Innovate on Purpose: People are our most important asset Quote: Innovation is vitally, critically dependent on good people who are passionate about

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

Can Do vs. Can’t Do Cultures - Ben's Blog Quote: Who does the Can’t Do Culture hurt the most? Ironically, it hurts the haters. The people who focus on

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

Innovate on Purpose: Why corporate innovation is so difficult Quote: So tip your hat to the corporate innovator. She's got to overcome a significant

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

Accelerating human invention with all the computers you’ll ever need — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe dives deep into the

The Internet Of Things Will Be Huge—Just Not As Huge As The Hype – ReadWrite Quote: Like most things in life, the real value of the Internet of Things

Inversion and The Power of Avoiding Stupidity Quote: Spend less time trying to be brilliant and more time trying to avoid obvious stupidity. The kicker?

Oh I See (CIO Inverted): Integrated Best of Breed Quote: Predictions about the demise of the larger solutions have been around for a while now; I do not

The Secret of Good IT Communications Quote: To be brief is to be selective. Choosing only the most important details is crucial. There should be just a

“It Won’t Work. We Tried That” Quote: Bottom line: bad marketing science is dangerous. And we should demand that it at least get itself a half-decent

The big data Wild West: The good, the bad and the ugly — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Ron Bodkin of Think Big Analytics discusses the best and worst

Big Social Data: The Second Era Starts Quote: When Big Data techniques are applied to the social media firehose, some amazing things start to happen. Like

Anticipate the Corporate Culture of "No!" - Sales Aerobics for Engineers ® Blog Quote: Do you work in a Culture of No? Some of you will be defeated by the

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

Data Science for Business - O'Reilly Radar Quote: Data analytic thinking means knowing what questions to ask, how to ask those questions, and whether the

Unicorn, Shmunicorn: Be a Pegasus | UX Magazine Quote: But who better to take on the product challenges of the future than cream-of-the-crop UX

Open Innovation: The Heart of Small Business | Free Enterprise Quote: The small business often has the advantage of proximity to their customers, but this

CIOs need to learn to become enablers rather than gatekeepers — Tech News and Analysis Quote: CIO bashing has become popular sport, but in reality

How Innovations Spread Quote: We believe that we can just tell people the facts and ideas will spread. That’s not really how it works. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Creating an Open, Transparent Organization through Social | Enterprise Social Software Blog | Socialtext Quote: Not only can social break down the walls

BYOD security and the importance of covering your backend — Tech News and Analysis Quote: So you’ve accepted BYOD and a host of new apps to support.

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

Meet the startups making machine learning an elementary affair — Tech News and Analysis Quote: The choices are getting a lot better for businesses 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

Oh I See (CIO Inverted): Flexible or efficient ? Quote: Can organizations and CIOs create a balance between the efficiency and flexibility agenda ? Is

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

After Sandy, SMBs Should Consider Following Wall Street into the Cloud | SMBSource Quote: As Hurricane Sandy showed, the possibility of massive system

The Smarter Data Manifesto - Quote: You need to look beyond the ways data used to be collected to how technology can help you use your data far more

Freeing your IT department from Stackholm Syndrome — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Many IT departments are enslaved by the very systems they have

Customer Journeys: Miles to Go - Highly Competitive - software industry insights Quote: The best outcome of any customer interaction or experience should

Last month I wrote a post titled "Is Big Data to Big for Small Business?" where I asked the questions: Is there a place for small organizations in the

When Does Customer Sentiment Matter? - semanticweb.com Quote: The company was able to look through customer verbatim online comments to filter for

Innovate on Purpose: Breaking out of the m (old) for disruptive innovation Quote: When you want truly disruptive innovation, you will need to break the

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

A Dangerous Bias: action over thinking - UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Quote: So, perhaps if our agile and iterative processes do not seem to be

The Three Elements of Successful Data Visualizations - Jim Stikeleather - Harvard Business Review Quote: Storytelling helps the viewer gain insight from

Young and Hungry - carpe factum Quote: Young and hungry is not about ego. In proving itself, young and hungry lets the accomplishment trump the

Technology is king, so why are so many IT departments playing backseat roles? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: As employees feel increasingly entitled to

“Steering your car via the gas tank”, when cost trumps strategy Quote: ...the budget is not a strategy, it is not a means of leadership, and it is simply

Marketing and the CIO race to see who can waste more money on CRM initiatives. Quote: What is the point here? The point is that currently leaders in

How well does small business and IT work? Can you run a small business today without an IT staff? Yes...you can.

Strong CIO, C-suite Relationships Drive Growth — CIO Dashboard Quote: Your ability as a CIO to cultivate strong relationships with your C-suite peers is

Don't Let Strategy Become Planning - Roger Martin - Harvard Business Review Quote: To make strategy more interesting — and different from a budget — we

Be Vulnerable - Feld Thoughts Quote: The great leaders I know are vulnerable. Maybe not to everyone, maybe not all the time, and maybe not in all

Placing Strategic Bets in the Face of Uncertainty - Roger Martin - Harvard Business Review Quote: Strategy means making the best possible choices you can

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

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

Big Data and Discovery « Inside the Biz with Jill Dyche Quote: The sooner business executives understand the value of knowledge discovery, the more likely

The DNA of the CIO Quote: The clear message from many CIOs – old and young, in mature and rapid-growth markets and spanning a range of industries – is

A review of the new Marha Heller book CIO Paradox.

Links for Sunday Oct 14 2012 covering topics ranging from privacy,the CIO, the CMO and the CMTO

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

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

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

Links for Sunday July 15 2012 covering various topics from IT to Education

That’s the magic and mystery of 1%. Don’t ignore it because its small. Don’t overlook it due to its size. 1% is small and large at the same time.

Links for June 10 2012 covering all sorts of topics. Check it out.

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.

Links for Sunday May 20 2012 covering interesting topics from the previous week

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.

Weekly links roundup covering simplicity in technology, the power of sharing mistakes, and lessons for CIOs and IT leaders.

Links for April 29 2012 covering topics for the CIO, CMO and more.

Links for Sunday April 15 2012 covering topics for the CIO

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.

Links for Sunday April 1 2012 covering IT, Innovation, culture and more

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

Links for March 24 2012 covering Marketing, Technology, IT and CIO related stories.

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.

Links for Sunday March 18 2012 covering IT, Technology, Marketing and CIO related topics.

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.

Hubris and the Data Scientist by Paul Miller on The Cloud of Data Quote: Moving forward, we need both domain skills and data skills. Sometimes those

Links for Sunday February 12 2012 covering Leadership, Business and Marketing

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

Weekly links covering front-line strategy, CIO advice for CFOs, leadership, and the relationship between IT and finance in organizations.

The Danger of Imitation by Kevin Eikenberry Quote: Observe and learn from others who have been where you are going. But don’t lose yourself on that

The Human Marketing Manifesto by Russ Somers on russsomers.com Quote: I am not a lead, I am a person. A human being with human concerns....I was not

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.

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

The Job of a CIO - Content verses Context by John D. Halamka on Life as a Healthcare CIO Quote: Here's a bold thought - might the context of being a CIO

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

Leadership Is a Gift Given by Those Who Follow by Grant McCracken on Harvard Business Review Quote: Leadership as an act of service. As the General says,

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

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

Rethinking Measurement by Jamie Notter Quote: ...rethinking your metrics is probably a GREAT way to start changing some trajectories. Measure different

Your attention please by Jason F on 37signals Quote: The greatest things you make and do are the ones that get your full attention. It’s helpful to take

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

The IT Reformation and the Splinternet (Part 1), by Frank Johnson | Hub Designs Magazine Quote: Progressive CIOs and thought leaders aren’t clamoring for

Dispel the myth of “lean will not work here” by Jeff Liker on The Lean Edge Quote: In short, every organization is operating in a different environment

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.

5 Things CIOs need to know about Google Plus by Tom Catalini Quote: Take a look at Google Plus to get a sense of the future, which seems to be arriving

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

CIO's Must Make Enterprise Architecture a First Class Citizen by Mike Walker Quote: I wouldn't necessarily make everyone use an architecture method as

Why Marketers Should Forget Frameworks & Think Outside the Box by Sarah Goliger on HubSpot Blog Quote: So what’s the takeaway here? Sometimes you need

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

Measuring IT Staff Performance by Arun Manansingh on A CIO's Voice Quote: Staff performance should be evaluated in various categories that align with your

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

All economics is local by Seth Godin Quote: That's because geography isn't as important as it used to be, but more than that, it has to do with the fact

Sunday night, Tracie and I wanted a good hamburger.  We didn't want to go out...and we didn't have any hamburger meat at home. So...being the clever

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

Making Enterprise Architecture Matter By Martha Heller on CIO.com Quote: The ultimate paradox is this: Architects are as necessary as they are rare. “It’s

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

Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time by Nilofer Merchant on The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Quote: After working on strategy for 20 years, I can

Three Questions that Will Kill Innovation - Tony Golsby-Smith - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Quote: ...innovation runs counter to so many of

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

Why People Are the Heart & Soul of the Information Age by Tim Sanders on Sanders Says - Quote: ... highly engaged innovators produce the breakthrough

It is all about The Customer by Neil Pearce Quote: Too often we in the IT department are seen as being out of touch by other people within the business

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

A System for Speaking IT Truths to CEOs - Robert Plant on the Harvard Business Review Quote: One of the protocols that's used for teaching medical

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

On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness by Mark Suster on Both Sides of the Table Quote: It’s my belief that through exceptional leadership you

A Four Step Process for Evaluating Risks in Social Business by Jacob Morgan on CloudAve Quote: I just finished reading “The New Supply Chain Agenda,” by

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.

Without Integrity and Trust, Rewards and Recognition are Meaningless by Dan McCarthy on Great Leadership Quote: At the end of the day, no perfect system

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.

Unlocking the Mayor Badge of Meaninglessness by Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review Quote: Social media needs to enlarge its blinkered, myopic

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

The need for connection & engagement in education by Garr Reynolds on Presentation Zen Quote: Few people think that the formal education systems

Hey, Chief, back your people up! by Dave Grossi on PoliceOne Daily One Quote: What really gets my Italian blood boiling is this incessant need by police

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

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

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

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

5 Things to Know Before Buying Marketing Automation by Carlos Hidalgo on MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog Quote: If you are thinking of automating your

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

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

A simple question that can do so much. Whether hiring or choosing vendors, take a few seconds to ask: I can, but should I?

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

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

Innovation success is based on enthusiasm by Jeffrey Phillips on Innovate on Purpose Quote from the article: What sustains innovation over time is the

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

Too Big to Trust? Or Too Untrustworthy to Scale? by Charles H. Green on Trust Matters Preach it Brother Edelman by Robbin Phillips on Brains On Fire Blog

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

Strategy Is Boring by Kneale Mann on One Mann's Opinion Are you stress testing your IT strategies? by Christina Torode on TotalCIO Innovation and the

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

Talent: Develop Strengths or Weaknesses? Yes. by Steve Roesler on All Things Workplace 5 Tips for Improving the Synergy between Marketing and IT by Jenn

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

Five by Chuck Musciano on The Effective CIO The Splinternet means the end of the Web's golden age by Josh Bernoff on Groundswell Run IT Like a Business,

"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.

Outstanding leaders put people first from Management-Issues : News Enterprise 2.0 - Building the New Schoolyard for Bullies? by Ben Kepes on CloudAve On

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

Forget means to an end, and find the meaning of life by Jared Goralnick on Technotheory.com Seizing opportunities in turbulent markets: The Tingyi story

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.

Storytelling on the web by Rob Mills on Carsonified Long Tail Vs. The Blockbuster by Paul Barsch on Marketing Profs Daily Fix 5 strategies for a better

Just finished reading Chris Curran's article on CIO.com titled How to Improve Your IT Planning in 2010 - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership.  Good

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

You Can Only Lead the Horse by Amber Naslund on Altitude Branding Leadership – What’s Love Got To Do With it? by Terry Starbucker on TerryStarbucker.com

Why Social Media Purists Won’t Last by Jason Falls on Social Media Explorer Reliability vs. Validity by Mark Howell on Strategy Central The Led Zeppelin

Skin In The Game by Chuck Musciano on The Effective CIO Disposable people? A question raised in Cannes by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Netwrok The

Intuition vs. Data-Driven Decision-Making: Some Rough Ideas by Bob Sutton on Bob Sutton - Work Matters CIO and the Art of Decision Making by Arun

The Value Every Business Needs to Create Now by Umair Haque on HarvardBusiness.org Three Key Principles when Leading without Authority by George Ambler on

Why Your Corporate Message Isn’t Being Heard by Jason Falls on Social Media Explorer The 7 Sins of Customer Service by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation

CIO Magazine ran a survey of 208 Chief Information Officers (CIO) and reported the results in an article titled "IT Budget & Staffing Survey Shows

Tom Parish has interviewed Nathan Langston, Chief Information Officer (CIO), of the Boy Scouts of America on Enterprise Leadership Online.   The

According to research conducted by Harvey Nash, an IT Recruitment firm, everything.  Information World Review reports on this research in an article

According to Information Week, the Top 10 issues for CIO's in 2009 are: Customer-Facing Innovation Attacking the 80/20 Ratio The Challenging Economy The

The latest edition of CIO Magazine has an interesting article titled "Power from Your People" written by Karan Sorenson, VP & CIO at Johnson &