Links for December 4 2011
IT anti-patterns: reverse behavior lessons from Steve Jobs by Peter Kretzman on CTO/CIO Perspectives Quote: Unfortunately, for every Jobs out there with
Foto Friday – Backyard Canna
Yet another from the photoarchives. A photograph of a Canna flower in our backyard garden. Taken with a Canon 5D and Canon 24-105 mm. EXIF: 1/640 sec,
Xendow – Overcoming Cloud Storage Security Concerns?
I've been a long time user of Dropbox...I love that service. That said, I don't put anything in my Dropbox folder that I wouldn't mind other people
Recovering from Bad Customer Service
I love good customer service. Receiving excellent service from a company / person makes me feel good...it makes me happy and makes me excited to revisit
Links for Nov 28 2011
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
Recovering from Outsourcing – A CIO's Tale
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
Links for November 20 2011
What cloud boils down to for the enterprise By James Urquhart on GigaOm - Cloud Computing News Quote: What you do bring to the table–er, service–is code,
Foto Friday – Baby Chimp
Here's another from the photoarchive: A capture of a baby Chimp playing at the Dallas Zoo. Captured at a bad time of day with the sun directly in front
Driving transformation with IT starts with transforming IT
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
Don't let "them" tell you you're wrong...
I ran across a very interesting article titled Why Gursky’s Photo of the Rhine is the World’s Most Expensive Photo that discusses a
Links for November 13 2011
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,
Foto Friday – In Honor of Veterans Day
In honor of Veteran's Day today in the US, I'm sharing this photo taken a few years ago from the deck of the USS North Carolina docked at Wilmington NC.
IT Projects – doomed from the start?
I just ran across an interesting research report titled "Doomed from the Start? Why a majority of business and IT teams anticipate their software
Links for Nov 6 2011
Don’t Sell Technology, Sell Magic by Ben Yoskovitz on instigator blog Quote: Customers want results. They’re attracted to products that delight them.
Foto Friday – Morning at the Park
I've been playing around with Instagram on my new iPhone (the iPhone 4...not the 4s). I'm not that happy with the output in terms of noise, etc but I
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