Links for Nov 28 2011
The Job of a CIO – Content verses Context by John D. Halamka on Life as a Healthcare CIO
Quote: Here’s a bold thought – might the context of being a CIO be nearly impossible in 2012 and beyond, requiring us to rethink the way that IT services are planned and delivered in the future?
Digital Darwinism and why brands die by Brian Solis on The Washington Post
Quote: What separates brands that fall to digital evolution from those that excel is the ability to recognize the need for change and the vision to blaze a path toward renewed relevance among a new generation of consumers.
Quote: My question to you though is: what would happen if you asked every employee in your company to sound off or rant – with complete faith that their jobs are safe – about the company’s core strategy? I mean warts and all, no holds barred, names deliberately namedropped to hit the target?
The wild west of work media: A deluge of streamed, unstructured data by Stowe Boyd on GigaOm
Quote: This tendency, along with the relative immaturity of the burgeoning work media marketplace, is rapidly leading us to a very strange outcome: a generation of business software — work media — ostensibly based on the principles of open social media, but which are inherently closed, and which are spawning a million information silos.