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Four P’s of Managing Employees

December 26, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Dateline: December 26, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. For the last post of 2014, we are returning to the topic of employee management.  This week’s idea comes from Author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker James Bird Guess.  In a recent post on his blog titled, Four Types of Employees Every Leader Must Know, he suggests … [Read more...]

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Big Data as a Service

December 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Dateline: December 19, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea suggests a framework for Big-Data-As-A-Service (BDaaS).  In the age of SaaS, PaaS, and many other as-a-service offerings, BDaaS may be the next big thing.  It's the topic of a recent article by Varun Sharma, an Enterprise Architect and "as-a-service" … [Read more...]

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The Value of Face-to-Face

November 14, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Dateline: November 14, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently Walter Issacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of Steve Job's biography and new book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution published a column on Linked In titled Why Steve Jobs Obsessed About Office … [Read more...]

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Managing Agile

November 7, 2014 by Leave a Comment

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...]

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Security and the Internet of Things

October 31, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Dateline: October 31, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Tonight is Halloween, our 'holiday' to explore the scary and creepy.  In keeping with this theme, this week’s idea combines two very 'scary' topics for many IT leaders: security and the Internet of Things.  Recently, Kevin Beaver, an information security consultant and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing/'As a Service', Organizational Impacts of Technology, Social Business/Social Media, Technology Management Tagged With: ,

Derek Jeter’s Boot Camp for the IT Team

October 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Dateline: October 24, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from a blogpost with a provocative title, "What CIOs Can Learn from Derek Jeters Boot Camp", written by managing editor Jack Rosenberger for CIO Insights.  As you may know, NY Yankee Derek Jeter has announced his retirement after 20 years in baseball.   … [Read more...]

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What CIOs can Learn from Jimmy Fallon

October 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Dateline: October 3, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, author, producer and former actor Jack Stahlmann published a blog about the Leadership Lessons from Jimmy Fallon.  Jack's insightful perspective is that Jimmy Fallon has found the perfect fit because of his leadership skills (the 6.5 is Jack's schtick): 1. He … [Read more...]

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Increasing CIO-CMO Alignment

September 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Dateline: September 19, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea about the alignment of CIOs and CMOs comes from a recent post on the HBR Blog Network by Mike Sutcliff, group chief executive of Accenture Digital, titled CMOs and CIOS Increasingly See Eye to Eye.   The Accenture annual survey of CIOs and CMOs found that … [Read more...]

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Speeding up IT

August 29, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Dateline: August 29, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Nothing pleases the business partners more than to receive a quality, working IT system delivered on-time and on-spec.  Want to delight them? Deliver it fast.  In an interview by Rob Preston, Editor-in-chief at InformationWeek,  GM CIO Randy Mott suggested that speed of … [Read more...]

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Outcome-Based Outsourcing

August 22, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Dateline: August 22, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Outsourcing is certainly not a new concept for our readers, and most are reconsidering their outsourced arrangements as cloud computing becomes more palatable.   But recently a new trend in outsourcing has been identified that is thought-provoking: building outcome-based … [Read more...]

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