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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Wattled Crane

Here's a shot of a Wattled Crane taken at the Dallas Zoo over the Labor Day holiday weekend. Captured with Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L handheld. See

Sep 10, 2010 · 1 min read
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Blog

Request for Guest Authors – Share your thoughts

I've got a tight timeline on a research project. I'm working on a paper to submit for an Conference on IT Project Management...fun!.  Because of this

Sep 9, 2010 · 1 min read
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Featured

What's wrong with today's IT?

Last week I wrote a long article titled Building Tomorrow's Organization - without today's IT? The purpose of that article was to walk through a 'what if'

Sep 7, 2010 · 3 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for Sept 5 2010

How Be An Effective Corporate Ambassador by David Armano on Logic+Emotion Quote: An individual who aligns themselves with a larger organization and has

Sep 5, 2010 · 2 min read
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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Moose in The Tetons

This is a photo taken at Two Ocean Lake in the Grand Teton National Park in 2009.  You can purchase a print of this photo in my Zenfolio Gallery. While

Sep 3, 2010 · 1 min read
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Featured

Building Tomorrow's Organization – without today's IT?

A few weeks ago I wrote about The diminishing role of IT and the CIO.  That post struck a nerve with quite a few readers so I wanted to expand on the

Sep 2, 2010 · 10 min read
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Organization

Technology Selection, Acceptance & Culture

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

Aug 31, 2010 · 5 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for August 29 2010

Social Software Needs to Be a Layer, Not a Feature, In the Enterprise by Eugene Lee on Enterprise Social Software Blog | Socialtext Quote: We believe we

Aug 29, 2010 · 3 min read
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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Sands of Time

I captured this while visiting the Antelope Slot Canyon in April.  Loved the Sand falling. Captured with Canon 5D and Canon 17-40 L sitting on my Induro

Aug 27, 2010 · 1 min read
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Technology

I. Love. WordPress.

Sorry for the silly title...but I do I love WordPress. Well...I should clarify...I love the self-hosted version of found at WordPress.org).   The

Aug 26, 2010 · 3 min read
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Featured

Technology Selection and Cultural Fit

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

Aug 24, 2010 · 5 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for August 22 2010

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

Aug 22, 2010 · 2 min read
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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – The Watchman

See that peak way off in the distance? That's the Watchman at Zion National Park. I liked this composition...different than most others you see of the

Aug 20, 2010 · 1 min read
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Book Reviews

A Plethora of Book Reviews

I get the occasional request to review a book or two from publishers, PR folks and authors. Normally, I get less than one request a month for reviewing

Aug 19, 2010 · 5 min read
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Featured

The diminishing role of IT and the CIO (?)

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

Aug 17, 2010 · 6 min read