Leadership

2013: The Year of the CIO

CIOs stand at a crossroads as we head into 2013. Many of them have a choice to make. They can retreat to the back-office or reach out to business units and began to partner with them on customer-facing innovation and revenue generation.…

Have you found your natural rhythm?

Life as an architect is not always so easy, we are sometimes overwhelmed with things to do and the more things amass the worse it gets. My usual remedy for situations like that is that you just STOP what you are doing…

The Next Power Pairing: CIO and HRO

Guest post by Amaresh Tripathy and Zack Capozzi Many CIOs haven’t given much thought to the human resources department, but maybe they should. Here’s why: Talent management deficits are derailing CEO plans. In the PwC 2012 global CEO survey, one in four…

Why bother with diversity skills?

The opportunity to get ahead comes wrapped in the challenge. Nothing new then, it always does! The challenge is both personal and organizational. It is about building cultural proficiency, an intelligence and a skill-set, to thrive in the diversity that … Continue…

The Story behind “Stories That Move Mountains”

There is a new book available that I’d like to let everyone know about.  It is called “Stories That Move Mountains.”  I wrote this book with two fantastic professionals Martin Sykes and Mark D. West.  In this post, I’m going to talk…

45 Days into My Adventure

I have been here for 45 days in my new role as the Director of Information Technology at the American University of Sharjah (AUS). I still wake up and wonder where I am some mornings. I am so fortunate to live in…

A Whole New World

Marhaba!  This is my first post from my new home at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.  I have been here for 10 days and am finally feeling like a human being again.  The +11 hour time difference…

Survey: What Global CEOs Want from Technology

We recently peered into the minds of CEOs with operations in Asia Pacific to explore their priorities and pain points as part of this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. The over 370 business leaders who responded to PwC’s 2012 APEC CEO…

Creating a Powerful Vision

Organizations with a strong inspiring vision of who they want to become have higher levels of performance than purely goal-based organizations. If you aren’t sure you need to create a vision statement for you organization, go back and read “Why Most Organizations…

Reflecting on Management

Five years ago today, I moved from being a senior staff member (Enterprise Architect)  to the Manager, Business Application Services and Enterprise Architecture at BCIT.  Over the past few weeks, I met with many colleagues and friends that I work with for…
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