Dateline: August 1, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This weeks thought comes from a recent blog at Harvard Business Review about the impact of titles and department names. Professor Robert Plant, from University of Miami School of Business Administration, wrote a blog titled IT Has Finally Cracked the C-Suite. In it he shares … [Read more...]
Counterintuitive CIOs
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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...]
The Disruption of BYOx
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Dateline: July 11, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from a recent survey done by Solar Winds. The IT management and monitoring software vendor asked their 100,000 customers on the role of IT in the business, and the most disruptive technologies faced by IT. Their survey results are interesting in many … [Read more...]
Decision Fatigue and Too Many Choices
July 4, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 4, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Decision fatigue, the exhaustion we feel when we have to sort through many options, may be getting in the way of IT effectiveness. Recently, Fast Company published a blog titled, Why Having Too Many Choices is Making You Unhappy. The author, writer Jane Porter, suggests, Too … [Read more...]
Lessons from HealthCare.gov
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Dateline: April 25, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius lost her job as the result of the disastrous HealthCare.gov project. While no one expected her to actually write code and she certainly had some of the best IT advisors available to help manage the … [Read more...]
Emotional Intelligence in Your IT Leaders
April 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: April 11, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Do your IT leaders have a high level of emotional intelligence (EI)? Recently Sanjog Aul, founder and host of CIO Talk Radio recently interviewed consultant and former CIO Scot Berkey. Scot is also a long time facilitator at the SIM Regional Leadership Forum in Chicago and an … [Read more...]
Upgrading Legacy IT: Financial Services vs Healthcare
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Dateline: March 14, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, two different articles crossed my desk that showed vastly different outcomes to the way legacy IT was managed. The first article, Big Banks' Legacy IT Systems Could Kill Them, described the unfortunate circumstances faced by a number of large banks: their legacy IT … [Read more...]
Data Security and the Twentysomethings
February 28, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: February 28, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea looks at data security across age groups. In a recent blog at HBR.org, titled, Do Millennials Believe in Data Security?, Editor Sarah Green shared some recent statistics about data security. The SoftChoice survey found that, 28.5% of twenty-somethings keep … [Read more...]
Technical Skills Might Be The Hurdle to Cloud Migration
February 13, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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...]
