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...]

Security and the Internet of Things

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...]

IT Focuses More On the Business and Less On Internal Services

Dateline: October 10, 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 of the Society for Information Management (SIM) membership which indicated that IT is in a transition in many organizations.  Leon Kappelman, IT Professor at the University of North Texas and the study's lead researcher, was quoted … [Read more...]

Increasing CIO-CMO Alignment

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...]

Business Unit- IT Alignment on the Internet of Things

Dateline: September 5, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s thought builds on our earlier post on the "Internet of Things."  Baseline Magazine reported findings from a recent study by Gartner of 400 IT professionals in the UK and the US about the readiness of IT organization for the impact of adding so many devices to … [Read more...]

Speeding up IT

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...]

Instant Cupcakes

Dateline: August 15, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Those of you who have been following my writing for sometime know that I'm fascinated with things that happen instantly. My previous blog, Instantly Responsive, was an offshoot of my book, Zero Time: Providing Instant Customer Value.  This week's thought-provoking idea comes … [Read more...]

Competitive Advantage through Connections

Dateline: June 27, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's idea comes from a recent blog at Harvard Business Review online.  Blogger Greg Satell's column is titled  Strategy Is No Longer a Game of Chess.  He suggests, Legendary strategists have long been compared to master chess players, who know the positions and … [Read more...]

The Case for Blank Canvas Thinking

Dateline: June 6, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. What would you do with a blank canvas, a budget and an opportunity to use whatever technology you wanted for your organization?  Recently, Disney-owned ESPN unveiled their new SportsCenter Studio in Connecticut--Digital Center 2 or DC2.  Fast Company recorded a test run of the … [Read more...]

Tell Them Why

Dateline: May 9, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Andy Sernovitz, an online marketing expert, recently published a blog post titled, The "Tell Them Why" Issue, which describes why it's important to make sure customers understand what is behind the service you are selling.  It occurs to me that this is relevant to IT leaders, … [Read more...]