Articles on Technology

Marketing departments have too many choices today. Without proper governance and selection processes, getting things done becomes impossible.

The Plantronics Savi 740 has worked perfectly for me for 4+ years...until it died this week. So...I bought another...that's how much I like it.

The technology debate is usually the wrong debate. Focus on what value you will deliver with whatever technology you have or might acquire.

Reinventing a Small Business with Simple Technology

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

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

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

Change Trumps Technology Quote: So, do I think your organization should be advancing into the digital/social media world? Absolutely. But you’d better

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

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

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

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 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).

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

As you know, I love WordPress. I use WordPress for everything these days. This blog runs on WordPress. My photography blog runs on WP.  My wife's

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

Did you know that technology selection is about much more than technology? Yep...its true.....but most people don't realize it. Many in the IT world love

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

The Case for Listening by Rajesh Setty Quote: To be totally effective, you have to be doing something now or increasing your capacity to do something in

I've been thinking about approaches to small business technology initiatives and whether it makes sense for small business to outsource a good portion of

I grabbed a copy of Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead (affiliate link) by Charlene Li for my business trip last week.

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

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

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

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

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

What's your focus? Have you ever stopped to ask yourself this question? What are you focused on in your life or your job?  What's your focus for the

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

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

I ran across an interesting post today titled "Why you don't need Social Media Consultants" on the Brains on Fire Blog.  The main thesis of the post is:

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

Success is About Relationships by Kevin Eikenberry from Remarkable Learning with Kevin Eikenberry Can CIOs Drive Innovation & Boost Quality At 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. 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. 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

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've seen many

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

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

2009 is half over and its been a pretty good year so far. What's transpired this year? In February, I put my consulting practice on hold to join the Boy

On Social Media and Culture Shift by Amber Naslund on Altitude Branding The ROI on Flexibility by Peter Campbell on Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use

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's fitting that my

Hello everyone...I'm back from my trip to Orlando...links are lite this week due to being away from the computer. Enjoy the few I do have. How the Cloud

For those that haven't heard the news, I accepted a full-time position with the Boy Scouts of America in February.  I work for the Brand Management

Over on my photography blog, onefourPhotography, I wrote a post titled "Photographs are taken by people - not technology" that got me to thinking.  I

I hope everyone out there is reading Glenn Whitfield's great blog IT Business Alignment (IT2B).  I'll wait for you while you jump over and check out

Another Sunday, Another List O' Links! :)  Enjoy! Knowledgeable Workforce Requires Knowledge-Filled Workers by Steve Roesler on All Things Workplace

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

Positive Communication and Leadership by Stephen Smith on Slacker Manager A Lean, Scalable Requirements Information Model for the Agile Enterprise by Dean

hey everyone - I've been lax in letting you know that I'm on Twitter and Friendfeed...feel free to follow/subscribe. Twitter:

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

Mike has a great post (that also mentions me...shameless plug?) titled Selling Web 2.0 to IT (also on Forbes here) that expands on a previous post of mine

Probability and Statistics in Project Estimating by Glen Alleman on Herding Cats ROI on Telecommuting by Jessica Lipnack on Endless Knots (thanks to Bas

Web 2.0.  A term that is overused and often misunderstood.  And one that has been touted for years by consultants as the 'next big thing' coming to

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

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

When did common sense get removed from the corporate technology selection process? For those that don't know what it is, technology selection is the

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

I finally got my new 30MB/15MB FIOS service installed (see here for more info) Wow...here's the result of my speed test:   Verizon FIOS, Broadband

Read an interesting article on GigaOm yesterday titled "Google’s Infrastructure is its Strategic Advantage" (go read it if you haven't). This post, and

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

I've been looking for a remote location to store off-site backups and have tried a lot of different services and I thought I found the answer with a

The last few years has seen the rise of Internet based social networking. Web sites like Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn and others have done a lot for

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

As a follow up to my previous post titled Competitive Advantage - The Human Capital Approach, I wanted to take a second to talk a little bit about the