Trends from Client Questions: Changing IT, Becoming GC
The conversations I have been having with IT executives have spiked in one important area: outsourcing and vendor management. Certainly, cloud (as a form of outsourcing) is contributing to that. But...
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Part 0: Hacker Dad meets Hacker Mom
A few weeks ago I went public with a Facebook breach that I incurred. That post here. I suppose hacking is a relative term. A few years ago, my (then) college aged son got into hot water during the...
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I’m Back: Professional Effectiveness, Brazil, and CIOs
Took a long blog hiatus – mainly because I was way too busy, and fell off the wagon of doing regular blog updates. Still too busy (I write this while traveling in Sao Paulo, Brazil)….but find the need...
View ArticleSatisfaction = Control = Bring your own Device
An interesting anecdote from the Premier 100 Conference in Palm Springs ( I am a past honoree, and have habitually attended these these events as an alumnus). In a discussion about “bring your own...
View ArticleIT: A culture of No to Know or Nay to Yay?
I have had an interesting juxtaposition of meetings these past few weeks. I meet with a group of CIOs where the zeitgeist is one of being part of the business – to the point of being a major part of...
View ArticleQuantum Supply Chains: IT Externalization, clouds, and outsourcing
Our thoughts and prayers are with Japan, and the ongoing humanitarian and nuclear crisis. Living within 10 miles of a nuclear plant on the seacoast of the northeast US, I am more than aware of the...
View ArticleIT as Whipping Boy
The Journal (and for those of you that don’t know what I am referring to, go read someone else’s blog) had a recent section on IT that was interesting, and a good overview of the executive POV. But one...
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The Future of IT Work: Webinar Survey Analysis
The Professional Effectiveness group in Gartner (which I am a member of) recently hosted a webinar on “The Future of IT Work”. We had three questions for the audience. Let’s analyze those: This was...
View ArticleThe Internet’s $10 Million Mix Tapes and Creative Dis-integration
The title refers to a news piece about X5 music group in today’s Wall Street Journal. Which makes me think of this fictitious dialogue excerpt: But, Herr Gutenberg, if you are able to use your new...
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Doveryai, Proveryai, Suditsya
Ronald Reagan’s shadow looms big in the American political scene, and a favorite saying of his was: doveryai, no proveryai; in English: “Trust but Verify” – relating to the START arms agreements that...
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IT or not IT? That is the Question
This question came to me in a survey the other day: When the department that you work in is called “Information Technology”, then the answer to this question is pretty clear, even if still nebulous....
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Part 0: Hacker Dad meets Hacker Mom
A few weeks ago I went public with a Facebook breach that I incurred. That post here. I suppose hacking is a relative term. A few years ago, my (then) college aged son got into hot water during the...
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I’m Back: Professional Effectiveness, Brazil, and CIOs
Took a long blog hiatus – mainly because I was way too busy, and fell off the wagon of doing regular blog updates. Still too busy (I write this while traveling in Sao Paulo, Brazil)….but find the need...
View ArticleSatisfaction = Control = Bring your own Device
An interesting anecdote from the Premier 100 Conference in Palm Springs ( I am a past honoree, and have habitually attended these these events as an alumnus). In a discussion about “bring your own...
View ArticleIT: A culture of No to Know or Nay to Yay?
I have had an interesting juxtaposition of meetings these past few weeks. I meet with a group of CIOs where the zeitgeist is one of being part of the business – to the point of being a major part of...
View ArticleQuantum Supply Chains: IT Externalization, clouds, and outsourcing
Our thoughts and prayers are with Japan, and the ongoing humanitarian and nuclear crisis. Living within 10 miles of a nuclear plant on the seacoast of the northeast US, I am more than aware of the...
View ArticleIT as Whipping Boy
The Journal (and for those of you that don’t know what I am referring to, go read someone else’s blog) had a recent section on IT that was interesting, and a good overview of the executive POV. But one...
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The Future of IT Work: Webinar Survey Analysis
The Professional Effectiveness group in Gartner (which I am a member of) recently hosted a webinar on “The Future of IT Work”. We had three questions for the audience. Let’s analyze those: This was...
View ArticleThe Internet’s $10 Million Mix Tapes and Creative Dis-integration
The title refers to a news piece about X5 music group in today’s Wall Street Journal. Which makes me think of this fictitious dialogue excerpt: But, Herr Gutenberg, if you are able to use your new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Doveryai, Proveryai, Suditsya
Ronald Reagan’s shadow looms big in the American political scene, and a favorite saying of his was: doveryai, no proveryai; in English: “Trust but Verify” – relating to the START arms agreements that...
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