CIO Role in Digital Transformation

Dateline: June 26, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. As cloud-based apps increase in capability, relevancy and functionality, IT leaders are increasingly concerned that their business partners will move away from internal IT systems and embrace these external solutions.  According to a column written by IT Strategic Advisor and … [Read more...]

Managing Agile

Dateline: November 7, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's idea stems from the increasingly fast paced business environment we all operate in.  Just when it feels like we have our hands around a project, something shifts and the race is on again to shift with it.  Agile development is the current way IT shops manage this … [Read more...]

Counterintuitive CIOs

Dateline: July 25, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's idea comes from Heller Search Associates guest blogger, Peter Waterhouse, Senior Marketing Executive at CA Technologies and co-author of a book on service management.  Peter's blog, A Digital World Calls for Counterintuitive CIOs, suggests that counterintuitive … [Read more...]

Saying Less and Having a Bigger Impact

Dateline: June 20, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Getting the right attention for your ideas is increasingly more difficult in an environment of overwhelmed, over-emailed/texted/interrupted colleagues and leaders. This week's WRAP comes from a recent review in Fast Company of a book by Joe McCormack titled BRIEF: Making a Bigger … [Read more...]

Technical Skills Might Be The Hurdle to Cloud Migration

Dateline: February 14, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's thought comes from a recent blog about Bank of America's cloud strategy.  Information Week's Chris Murphy wrote a mini-case study titled, Bank Of America's 'Why Stop There?' Cloud Strategy where he examines the bank's strategy for migrating from a data center-based … [Read more...]

IT Leadership is Conveyed in How You Speak

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

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...]

Graduates and Tech Skills

Dateline: September 20, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. As the fall begins, let's consider the education of our next generation for a moment.  A recent CNET article by Heidi Golledge, CEO of CyberCoders and CareerBliss, suggests that we need better focus of our education agenda on the new tech skills.  She writes, More importantly, … [Read more...]

When Surprises are the New Normal

Dateline: August 9, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Management guru and Harvard Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter recently published a blog about the difference in winners and losers.  It's not about how you win, but what you do when you lose, that really defines a winner in the long run.  To quote Professor Kanter, The difference … [Read more...]

The Importance of Your Team

Dateline: July 5, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. What makes a successful network?  The people on your team, according to Fast Company blogger Drake Baer.  His recent post for Fast Company's Dialed section, The 4 People You Need for An Awesome Network, suggests that there are 4 must-haves on your team for you (and your projects) to be … [Read more...]