It’s important to recognize that to run an IT project or to manage a team of IT developers requires good management techniques. But all too often, IT professionals exist and operate in a vacuum resulting in a variation of management absent of inputs such as market forces.
Continue ReadingWhile Facebook and the iPad garnered considerable attention this year — and rightly so — it is the free micro-blogging service Twitter that gets my
Continue ReadingWe are living in amazing times. Technology is changing the way we work and play at a considerable pace and there is no letup in
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Continue ReadingIn my 20 years providing IT services to organizations, I’ve never seen a technology that is so equally transformational and feared as cloud computing. I
Continue ReadingThis week I delivered the detailed framework for a 3-year IT strategy for O’Reilly Media, Inc. The strategy is the culmination of several months’ work
Continue ReadingEvidence-based management is an approach where hunches are discarded and instead decisions are based on hard facts. It’s pounded into aircraft pilot training: when there
Continue ReadingI’m fast approaching 90 days as a CIO. On the one hand it sounds and feels like a short amount of time, but as I’ve
Continue ReadingWith all the attention being paid to both public and private cloud computing these days, it would be easy to believe that it offers a
Continue ReadingOrganizations that succeed in consistently converting ideas into value, and then profiting from them — the art and science of innovation — are often those
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