Strategy

Five things the CEO wants to know about Big Data

Digital Transformation – Are CEO's and CIO's aligned?

Don't focus on the data, focus on what the data tells you

To have a great analytics culture, you need a great communications culture

Best practices aren't enough

Normalcy Bias and You

Making Theory Meet Practice

Beware the Strategy Trap(s)

Don't Ask if you Can't Act

Are you looking at all aspects of your business to identify cost savings?

Are you a "Supply Chain" CIO or a Strategic CIO?

The Cloud – Gateway to Enterprise Mobility

The Delivery Gap

On Common Sense

The Cloud – more than a technology

The Thin line between Great and Ghost Town

Do things when you should...not when you have to

Clouds and Shadows – Managing Shadow IT with the Cloud

Hope isn't a tactic either...

Competing with Amazon

Stop Chasing. Start Focusing.

A story of a CIO, IT and Marketing

The Strategy Disconnect

Which IT project comes first – Legacy or Sexy?

Social – A Culture, not a tool

Solving today's problem; creating more for tomorrow?

On Change

So...what do I do?

CIO's vs CMO's – what's the real problem?

The Relationship between the CIO & CMO?

On Value

Good People...Good Processes

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

Technology Selection, Acceptance & Culture

Technology Selection and Cultural Fit

CIO's: Consider This...

Embrace your community

CRM tools do not equal CRM

I can, but should I?

Links for June 27 2010

Can we stop trying to run IT as a business?

What's your strategy?

Small Business IT Outsourcing – don't go too far

Outsourcing, Value & Capabilities – Priorities for Small Business CIO's

The Future of IT & the CIO – Redux of the Dodo?

Links for April 25 2010

Culture of Failure?

Innovation or Imitation?

Linear Thinking and the CIO

What a CIO can learn from It's a Wonderful Life

Links for Dec 20 2009

Will 2010 be revolutionary or evolutionary for CIO's and IT?

CIO's – what's your focus?

Book Review: Andrew McAfee's Enterprise 2.0

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

Consultants and the CIO

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

Decision Speed, Performance and the CIO

Links for Oct 18 2009

Can you do it all? – The New CIO Series

Five (bad) Lessons for The New CIO

Leading by saying No – The New CIO Series

The Dangers of Hidden Talent – New CIO Series

Book Review: Trust Agents

Values and The New CIO

Goals, Priorities and The New CIO

Innovation and The New CIO

Project Success and Failure and The New CIO

Book Review: Toy Box Leadership

Links for July 26 2009

Defining "Right" – The New CIO Series

Sitecore Implementation Notes

Links for July 19 2009

Minding the gap between Strategy and Tactics – The New CIO Series

A milestone – 3 years old (not 4 like I thought!)

Links for July 12 2009

Keeping your IT staff Engaged and Happy – The New CIO Series

Time for a Mid Year Review

The New CIO: Social Media and the Enterprise

Jeffrey Phillips on Intense Ambiguity

So you want to be a Change Agent?

Links for June 28 2009

The New CIO – An Introduction

The New CIO – a new weekly series

Beware of the Linear Thinking Trap

Links for June 21 2009

Strategy, Tactics and Hope

You're doing it wrong!

Humanity and Business

Inbound Marketing Summit Dallas – Great event

Another lesson from Photography

Using Stories to share knowledge

Links for April 5 2009

Branding gone wrong – SciFi to SyFy

CIO Survey shows serious impact to IT budgets

Boy Scouts CIO Interviewed on Enterprise Leadership

Connecting IT with Business – The Go Betweens

Risks and issues in Cloud Computing

Communicating IT's value using Project Portfolio Management

Ramblings on Social Media

Authentic Conversation – Real, Simple, Honest

Cloud Computing and the Enterprise

Links for Dec 21 2008

Cutter on 2009 IT Trends

Mike Schaffner on Web 2.0 & IT

What does IT and a State Trooper have in common?

Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

Innovation and Outsourcing – Do they go together?

Hiding behind your Role

Tyler Durden on Innovation

Big ideas vs Little ideas

Information Technology Challenges

From Project Manager to IT Leader

Information Technology Strategy

Information Technology Leadership & Alignment

The Strategic Project Leader

McKinsey on Responding to Competition

Common Sense and Technology Selection

Innovation needs Execution

IT and Business Alignment – Survey Results

Google & Resource Diversity & Immobility

IT Human Capital as Competitive Advantage

Strategy and the Fat Smoker

Resource Diversity & Immobility Simplified

Competitive Advantage and the Resource Based View of the Firm

Competitive Advantage – The Human Capital approach

Agile Project Management and Product Strategy – A Case Study

A good definition of Strategy

Mike Schaffner: Strategic IT

Management of Projects

A review of Drucker's "They're not employees; they're people"

Alignment of Projects and Strategy

Project Failure

Best Buy’s “revolutionary” way of working

How to handle Layoff’s

The Strategic use of Human Resources