Articles on Information Technology

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 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

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

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

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 an interview titled Cloud benefits are speed, simplicity and resource

"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

I've been talking to quite a few folks recently about Sharepoint 2010 to get feedback and insight into the product's current acceptance and usage rate.

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

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

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

The Consumerization of IT By Zack Urlocker on GigaOm Quote: In a recent presentation, Lew Cirne, CEO of application performance management vendor New

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

I recently submitted a paper to be considered for an academic conference on the topic of IT Project Management. The conference uses a double-blind review

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

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 my article titled Technology Selection and Cultural Fit, I argue that cultural fit is an important aspect to consider when undertaking Technology

Social Software Needs to Be a Layer, Not a Feature, In the Enterprise by Eugene Lee on Enterprise Social Software Blog | Socialtext Quote: We believe we

The New New CIO Role: Big Changes Ahead By Thomas Wailgum on CIO.com Quote: CIOs themselves are in the midst of a make-or-break personal change-management

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

Shadow IT vs. Shadow Marketing By Scott Brinker on Chief Marketing Technologist Quote: IT people work for IT. Marketing people work for marketing. And, as

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?

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

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

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 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

Happy Easter everyone. Last week was the first published post using Delicious to manage links for my Sunday links post.  I used a javascript from

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

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

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

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

The most important thing in your company is not a thing by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network 6 Lessons for Life by Jon Gordon on Jon Gordon's Blog

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

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'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.

Linda Tucci wrote an interesting article on Total CIO titled "PMO becomes cornerstone of IT executive leadership" that got my attention. The title is a

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

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

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

Leadership and Leverage by Steven Levy on No Secret Social Software 2.0: Enterprise Process Ubiquity by Hutch Carpenter on I'm Not Actually a Geek Taking

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

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

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

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. So you want to be a

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. Do you know the full

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. Are you agile? I'm

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. As a follow-up to my

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. It as if we're more

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. Innovation. That's a

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. We've all heard the

Update - My original post was titled "A milestone - 4 years old". Apparently I can't count :)  I started the blog in 2006 so it's my blog's THIRD

Social change takes more than social media by Ivan Booth on the Rootwork Blog (via Beth Kanter's Blog) KISS: The Difference Between Strategy and Tactics -

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. Today's CIO is

I've been thinking about writing a weekly article and finally found a topic that I think lends itself well to this approach. I'm planning on writing about

Things not to say - "We don't have time" by Scott Berkun on The Berkun Blog Thinking outside the project: implied responsibilities of an agile product

How your organization's IT department can help support your social media strategy by Beth Kanter Purpose First, Strategy Second, Structure Third by Mark

Mike Schaffner pointed me to a great new blog titled 'Bridging the gap between business and IT' written by Laura Brandau.  The description of the blog is:

The High Priests of IT - And the Heretics by Cory Doctorow on HarvardBusiness.org Thank you, Jack Welch by Mike Neiss on The Tom Peters Weblog Innovation,

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

Is Marketing Evil? by Seth Godin Process Improvement - Been there, done that. Have you Really? by Glenn Whitfield on IT Business Alignment (IT2B) 6 Ways

This is a guest post from Michael Sebastian, PhD.   Find out more information about Michael here. Anger, fear, depression and fatigue. These are the

Are you looking to improve your IT skills? Are you a business leader looking to make your IT organization more effective? If so, take a look at Simon

Success without failure is impossible. . . by Alexander Muse on Texas Startup Blog Top 10 Outsourcing Trends by Small Businesses in 2009 by Amit

Help IT Run a Less-Risky Business by Susan Cramm on HarvardBusiness.org Why Social Media Will Not Get You A Job In A Recession by Jason Falls on Social

Oracle's Profit magazine has a nice article titled "The Go Betweens: Ten Tips for Connecting Information Technology with the Business" has some excellent

Inspiration Without Action is Wasted Time by C.C. Chapman on Reality Bitchslap IT Doesn't Have To Be Annoying by Mike Schaffner on Beyond Blinking Lights

Received an email yesterday from Simon Stapleton (blog and RSS Feed) with links to a few older articles he wrote about a concept that he calls "The

Bernard Golden has a two-part series on the IT Drilldown Virtualization section of CIO.com that is informative and interesting. The two-part series,

When I saw the InformationWeek story titled "Outsourcing Bill of Rights Proposed" I had to do a double take.   The words 'outsourcing' and 'bill of

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

The Business of IT Blog has an article titled "3 Secrets That Oil Companies Use To Run A Great IT Department" that has some interesting insight from

Paul Dunay over at Buzz Marketing for Technology wrote a post titled "Sin of Inclusion" that pointed me to some commentary on the IT Services Marketing

In November 2008 I was asked to take a look at Leading IT Transformation: The Roadmap to Success from Oulette & Associates (O&A) and thought the

McKinsey has recently released a report titled "IT's unmet potential: McKinsey Global Survey Results" that shows that there is still a lot of work to do

The Cutter Consortium blog has an interesting post titled "IT Trends and Antitrends for 2009".   Some interesting items listed...I've reproduced

In the case of this Massachusetts State Trooper, a lot. In case you are to lazy to click over, the linked story is about a Massachusetts State Trooper who

A new feature here on the blog...Sunday links. Look for 5 to 10 interesting links every Sunday. The Four Dharmas of Project Management by Bas de Baar -

Mike Sebastian, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at SourceCheck....and a great guy to boot, has recently had an article published on InsideARM titled "The

Mike Schaffner posted two great blog posts about Marketing IT....or rather the Un-Marketing of IT. Mike starts the topic with this comment (which I

I've had a book review published in the latest PMI Information Technology & Telecom Newsletter (download the PDF here).  You'll find my book review on

According to the Wall Street Journal Business Technology Blog, the Society for Information Management has reportedly released a report on a study

The 21st annual CIO 100 list has just been delivered. The article leading up to the list of the CIO 100 is quite interesting..I'm reading things like

I think I found it....and it happened to me. Warning...small rant. Imagine you are a hiring manager trying to find someone to lead a group of IT

I asked the following question on LinkedIn earlier this week and received some very insightful responses: What are the top challenges in IT organization's

The topic of Information Technology Strategy is one that is near and dear to my heart.  In fact, I've harped on this subject a few times (a few posts for

Discusses the need to lead information technology

Interesting analysis today over on Jeffrey Phillips' Thinking Faster Blog in an article titled "Productivity Barriers". Note: if you have an interest in

Aligning business and information technology by hiring the right people. Implementing Human Capital Management practices to ensure alignment.

Diamond Consultants released the results of their Digital IQ Survey recently (download the full survey here) that provides some very interesting (and

Excerpt from a paper on Information Technology Human Capital as Competitive Advantage, covering IT-business alignment and human capital management.

I recently turned a six month consulting project into a 1 month project...and I couldn't be happier. The client saved ~$1.5 million and they were able to