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Nov 5, 2010
Foto Friday – Road to the Horizon

This is a capture I took while out at Zion National Park earlier this year. Taken at the side of the road while taking a break from driving. Not sure I

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Nov 4, 2010
Time for IT to Evolve

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

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Nov 2, 2010
On Change

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

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Oct 31, 2010
Links for October 31 2010

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

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Oct 29, 2010
Foto Friday – Dallas Zoo Lioness

Here's a quick shot of one of the female lions at the Dallas Zoo. This was taken through glass....which normally doesn't work real well. Turned out

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Oct 28, 2010
Complexity & IT

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

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Oct 26, 2010
The Next Level by Scott Eblin – Book Review

Late last week I received The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, 2nd Edition by Scott Eblin (amazon affiliate link) from Daniel

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Oct 24, 2010
Links for October 24 2010

Are You Really Marketing or Just Advertising? by Alan Belniak on MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog Quote: How many companies push words on a paper and crank

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Oct 22, 2010
Foto Friday – Great Egret Stretching

Here's a Great Egret I captured at White Rock Lake a few weeks ago. Captured with Canon 1D Mark III + Canon 400mm 5.6 L and Canon 1.4x extender sitting on

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Oct 21, 2010
The missing links between CIO's & CMO's – Communications & Leadership

As promised in earlier posts (here and here), its time to talk about the two main issues that cause problems between the CIO and the CMO. In CIO’s vs

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Oct 19, 2010
A Social Approach to Knowledge Management in Projects – A White Paper

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

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Oct 17, 2010
Links for October 17 2010

Fewer Customers, but the Right Ones by Hanna Halaburda - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Quote: This tension between a seemingly natural

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Oct 15, 2010
Foto Friday – Squirrel Preparing for Winter?

Its almost winter...and it looks like this Squirrel is starting to get ready for it by finding some nuts. Captured this one collecting nuts for the

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Oct 14, 2010
What's the difference between a CIO and CMO?

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

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Oct 12, 2010
So...what do I do?

I'm in a quandary these days. As some of you may know, I'm working on my Doctorate in Information Systems. In addition, I have a full-time gig in the

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