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Information Technology

Links for March 14 2010

Strategy Is Boring by Kneale Mann on One Mann's Opinion Are you stress testing your IT strategies? by Christina Torode on TotalCIO Innovation and the

Mar 14, 2010 · 1 min read
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Information Technology

Do you have a technology strategy?

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

Mar 11, 2010 · 2 min read
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Management

Certifications in IT – Worth it or not?

My good friend, and partner at CIOEssentials.com,  Gene Delibero asks a few interesting questions in a post titled "Certification: No Guarantee of

Mar 8, 2010 · 2 min read
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Innovation

Links for March 7 2010

Pick one and own it by Jason Cohen on A Smart Bear The Strategy Trap: Why focusing too much on strategy could be killing your ability to execute by

Mar 7, 2010 · 1 min read
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Innovation

Culture and the CIO

Did you catch the news earlier this week?   Gene De Libero and I started a new blog titled "CIO Essentials".  Gene and I have known each other for a few

Mar 4, 2010 · 5 min read
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Book Reviews

SWAT – Seize the Accomplishment Review

I just put down SWAT - Seize the Accomplishment (Amazon affiliate link) by Timothy L. Johnson....and now want to pick it back up and read it again.  It's

Mar 1, 2010 · 2 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for Feb 28 2010

To Grow a Company, You Need to be Good at Killing Things by Auren Hoffman on Summation Why IT Shouldn't Be Involved in Marketing Software Decisions by

Feb 28, 2010 · 1 min read
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Innovation

Culture of Failure?

Do you know Hutch Carpenter?  You should.  He write's some awesome stuff over at I'm Not Actually a Geek. Hutch recently wrote a post titled "Apple iPad

Feb 25, 2010 · 3 min read
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Information Technology

Links for Feb 20 2010

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

Feb 21, 2010 · 1 min read
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Leadership

Do you know your team?

Do you know your IT staff? Do you regularly communicate with them? If you do, good for you. If not, you're missing out on a wonderful opportunity to build

Feb 18, 2010 · 4 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for Feb 14 2010

I don't normally do this, but I wanted to do a little self-promotion with this first link: Eric D. Brown's Engineering Approach by Ron Egatz on The Induro

Feb 14, 2010 · 2 min read
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Book Reviews

The Leadership Test – A Book Review

A few weeks ago I received Leadership Test: Will You Pass? (amazon affiliate link) by Timothy R. Clark, Ph.D. to review The book is a small one (~99 pages

Feb 12, 2010 · 1 min read
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Information Technology

Innovation or Imitation?

Are you innovating or imitating? Anywhere you go these days, you'll find someone talking or writing about Innovation.  Most of  the stuff I've been

Feb 11, 2010 · 3 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for Feb 7 2010

The most important thing in your company is not a thing by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network 6 Lessons for Life by Jon Gordon on Jon Gordon's Blog

Feb 7, 2010 · 2 min read
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The New CIO

CIO Bad Habits – Still valid 7 years later

I recently stumbled across an article on TechRepublic titled "The seven habits of wildly unsuccessful CIOs" written by Karen Ann Kidd in 2003. The article

Feb 4, 2010 · 2 min read