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Strategy

CIO's – what's your focus?

Early this week, I asked a question to my readers (and myself). The question was "What's your focus?" and immediately after publishing the post, I read a

Dec 3, 2009 · 2 min read
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Doctorate

What's your focus?

What's your focus? Have you ever stopped to ask yourself this question? What are you focused on in your life or your job?  What's your focus for the

Dec 1, 2009 · 3 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for November 29 2009

Why Social Media Purists Won’t Last by Jason Falls on Social Media Explorer Reliability vs. Validity by Mark Howell on Strategy Central The Led Zeppelin

Nov 29, 2009 · 1 min read
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Book Reviews

Book Review: Andrew McAfee's Enterprise 2.0

Just finished reading Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges My review in two words: Excellent book! Whether

Nov 23, 2009 · 4 min read
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Social media

Links for November 22 2009

Leadership and Leverage by Steven Levy on No Secret Social Software 2.0: Enterprise Process Ubiquity by Hutch Carpenter on I'm Not Actually a Geek Taking

Nov 22, 2009 · 1 min read
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Information Technology

Do it or Don't....just stop talking about it

I've got a few pet peeves.  Linear Thinking is one of them.  Another one is talking about doing something but never doing it. I'm not talking about 'not

Nov 19, 2009 · 3 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for November 15 2009

Skin In The Game by Chuck Musciano on The Effective CIO Disposable people? A question raised in Cannes by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Netwrok The

Nov 15, 2009 · 1 min read
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Consulting

Consultants and the CIO

This is a short one....lots going on this week. I got a lot of great feedback on a post I wrote titled "Consultants - Do we need them?".  In that post I

Nov 12, 2009 · 2 min read
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People

Links for November 8 2009

Intuition vs. Data-Driven Decision-Making: Some Rough Ideas by Bob Sutton on Bob Sutton - Work Matters CIO and the Art of Decision Making by Arun

Nov 8, 2009 · 2 min read
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Doctorate

Stories, Projects & Knowledge Management

Here's the latest version of my storytelling for knowledge management in projects presentation.  Enjoy! Recorded Presentation via Vimeo: Storytelling,

Nov 6, 2009 · 1 min read
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Communication

Don't let the big (or small) words win – The New CIO Series

In the world of  technology we tend to use either really big words, really small words and/or acronyms. What do you think of when you think of  'the

Nov 5, 2009 · 2 min read
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Consulting

Consultants – do we need them?

I ran across an interesting post today titled "Why you don't need Social Media Consultants" on the Brains on Fire Blog.  The main thesis of the post is:

Nov 3, 2009 · 3 min read
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Information Technology

Links for November 1 2009

Starting with Trust by Jamie on Get Me Jamie Notter Self-Organization vs. Emergence by Jurgen Appelo on NOOP.NL: Managing Software Development When

Nov 1, 2009 · 1 min read
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Information Technology

Decision Speed, Performance and the CIO

Last week I wrote about "Turbulence, IT & The New CIO" and discussed the need to embrace agility and speed in order to address the turbulence that we

Oct 29, 2009 · 4 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for Oct 25 2009

How CIOs can sense if their companies are getting ready to fall? by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network 10 Tips on Building a Better Business by Ted

Oct 25, 2009 · 1 min read