Articles on Innovation

AI is becoming a commodity. Your competitive advantage from 'having AI' expires fast. The real question: what do you do when everyone has the same tools?

After selling a company I spent eight years building, I woke up one morning with no fires to fight. The hardest part isn't the exit — it's the identity crisis.

I built a SmugMug replacement in five hours with AI tools. When competitors can replicate your product that fast, your value proposition needs rethinking.

Viewing AI as just a cost-cutting tool is short-sighted. Its real power is freeing people to focus on creativity, strategy, and innovation.

The AIC Framework bridges the gap between ideas and execution. Here's how Action, Innovation, and Collaboration drive real business results.

AI is democratizing expertise and changing how companies compete. Here's how to rethink strategy when rare knowledge becomes widely accessible.

While everyone chases ChatGPT, the real AI revolution is about augmenting human thinking — not automating tasks. Most organizations are missing it.

Jeffrey Philips currently wrote a nice piece titled "Innovate your processes before innovating your products" over on his excellent Innovate on Purpose

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

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

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.

Innovators overcome the can'ts Quote: Merely recognizing the can'ts and addressing them in advance can help, but that's not enough.  Doubt and prior

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why personas can be a bad idea for content marketing Quote: I guess that brings me full circle: go ahead and create personas. It can never be a bad idea

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

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

Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics - Jeff Bladt and Bob Filbin - Harvard Business Review Quote: In the business world, we talk about

Can evil data scientists fool us all with the world’s best spam? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Just when you thought spam was under control, a new breed

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

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

Links for February 19 2012 covering innovation, users, marketing, technology and more

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

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.

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

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

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

Competition is overrated by Chris Dixon on cdixon.org Quote: Startups are primarly competing against indifference, lack of awareness, and lack of

IT's Three Key Organizational Transformations by Andrew McAfee on Harvard Business Review's Blog Quote: I see companies in all industries using computers

I'm trying out a new approach to my link sharing posts. I'm now using delicious to capture the the articles that I want to share along with my notes. I

I just finished reading Chase Jarvis' post titled "Creativity alone is not enough". In this article, Chase argues that Creativity isn't enough for people

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

Ever see a book in the bookstore that catches your attention and you realize it was a best-seller sometime in the past?  You realize you never picked it

Do you know who Tyler Durden is? (hint: Brad Pitt played him in Fight Club). Lateral Action posted Tyler Durden's 8 Rules of Innovation recently (hat tip

"Don't let perfect ruin good" That's what Harry Beckwith, author of "Selling the Invisible" has to say on the subject. He goes on to say the following:

Scot Herrick over at CubeRules had a very interesting post today titled "Innovating Like Crazy; Executing Like Crap". Great title and great thoughts in

I just finished reading "Reinventing Project Management" by Aaron J. Shenhar and Dov Dvir and I have to say that I really enjoyed this book. The full