Dateline: December 7, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, speaking coach and presentation guru Dr. Nick Morgan gave an online interview to Boston Society for Information Management (SIM) President Tom Catalini about how the way we speak can support, or undermine, our ability to lead IT. The 20 min podcast is full of … [Read more...]
Structure Deadlines that Work
November 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 29, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent blog post from Fast Company came to the surprising conclusion that setting 'extremely short' deadlines was not just more productive, but reduced anxiety and made work less boring. Building on Parkinson’s Law about how work expands to fill the available time, Blogger … [Read more...]
Engagement with Online Articles
November 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 22, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Nate Weiner, the founder of Pocket, the "DVR for the web" and a popular online site for keeping track of links you want to view later, has learned some very interesting facts about what people save and what they actually do with what they save. In a recent Fast Company … [Read more...]
Innovation Secret: Culture Wins over Strategy
November 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 15, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Innovation can be an elusive goal for some organizations. Corporate strategist and author Chris Potts recently wrote a thought provoking piece for Information Week suggesting Innovation Stalled? Bad Culture Defeats Good Strategy. Potts writes, Why do some organizations … [Read more...]
Killing Innovation in the Organization
November 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Innovation is, to some, the holy grail of continued success. Getting the innovation process right puts an organization on the path of growth and renewal. Recently, Scott Kirsner, editor of Innovation Leader, an information service for corporate innovation executives, and blogger at Harvard Business Review, wrote about 11 ways a big company undermines their own innovation efforts. To summarize, … [Read more...]
Organizing IT Better
October 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Designing an IT organization to best meet the needs of your business is a never-ending task. Just when you think you have the optimal design, factors such as changes in the business, new technologies, or new ways to work come along and mess up the success. CIO Insight recently published a slideshow of the Nine Ways to Better Organize Your IT Department. Their suggestions, based on IT consultant … [Read more...]
Digital Competency is Critical for Success in the Creative Economy
October 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Forbes contributor, Steve Denning, recently interviewed Haydn Shaughnessy, co-author with Dr. Nick Vitalari of The Elastic Enterprise (mentioned earlier in this blog here). Denning suggests that: The Elastic Enterprise is one of at least twenty-four books of a management canon that spells out the implications of coping with the emerging Creative Economy of the 21st Century. In effect, a … [Read more...]
