Leadership

How organizations filter out change agents in their hiring process

Hypothesis: One way to change an organization is to join it. Can we prove or disprove this hypothesis? I had a long lunch with a friend of mine (whom I’ll call Joseph) who was interviewing at an analyst firm that freely shares…

February 10, 2012
Nick Malik

The CIO Through the Eyes of the CFO

Guest post by Phil Garland I had the opportunity to have lunch with 8 chief financial officers in Denver last week. Our conversation started with why the CFO should care about IT and what they need to know about technology. Our discussion…

January 13, 2012
Chris Curran

The Art of Enterprise Architecture – Section 13 – The use of architects

The mistake of the many Raising a host of all employees and marching them great distances entails heavy loss on the people and a drain on the resources of the Enterprise. The daily expenditure will easily surmount that which can ever be…

December 26, 2011
Jörgen Dahlberg

Sustainability: A Million-Dollar Opportunity for the CIO

The CIO is in a great position to lead sustainability initiatives at a corporation. Why? Because like information technology, corporations must weave sustainability into the fabric of the enterprise to generate the opportunities that companies like The Dow Chemical Company, SAP and…

December 14, 2011
Chris Curran

Using Enterprise Architecture To Get The CIO To The Strategy Table

Recently, Patrick Gray blogged on TechRepublic that IT has a Chicken and Egg problem. In his post, he describes two mechanisms that CIOs take to become recognized as strategic leaders: a) work in anonymity to demonstrate that the work that they are…

November 21, 2011
Nick Malik

To create a roadmap, we need to know what it is supposed to accomplish

I’ve been involved in a number of meetings recently as our IT teams try to come to consensus on answering this question: What is a Roadmap? It’s been a fascinating series of discussions. One thing that strikes me is that most of…

November 4, 2011
Nick Malik

Intelligence Failure at Kodak

@mkplantes sees the demise of Kodak as an intelligence failure. Put yourself in their Kodak leaders’ chairs for a moment and consider the four expectations of a leadership team and, more importantly, consider the speed with which they had to work though…

October 16, 2011
Richard Veryard

From Convenience to Consilience – “Technology Alone Is Not Enough"

Wikipedia defines Consilience as the unity of knowledge (literally a "jumping together" of knowledge), which has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos, inherently comprehensible by logical process. The word appears in an appreciation…

October 8, 2011
Richard Veryard

The Art of Enterprise Architecture – Section 15 – Balance

In most architecture related works there is a framework. The framework is most often a tool to enable the architects in creating plans and drawings. Another use of the framework albeit mostly from the viewpoint of the authors is to hold the…

August 2, 2011
Jörgen Dahlberg

The Art of Enterprise Architecture – Section 10 – Domains

We may distinguish six kinds of problem domains, to wit Simple; Entangling; Temporizing; Narrow; Precipitous; Location; These six are problem related principles connected with the scene. The architect who has attained a responsible post must be careful to study them. Simple problems…

July 14, 2011
Jörgen Dahlberg

IT is part of the business, but not for the reasons you think

A colleague of mine, Gabriel Morgan, pointed out a recent Infoworld article by Bob Lewis called “Why running IT as a business is a train wreck waiting to happen.” So, I read the article and while I agree with some of Mr.…

June 16, 2011
Nick Malik

5 of 7

1 2 3 456 7

June 2013
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
« May
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30