Dateline: July 31, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Ambition can be a good, constructive trait or bad and destructive. A recent Fast Company article explored the Six Habits of Ambitious People, and the difference in healthy and unhealthy ambition. Ambition that leads just to competing for competing sake can actually get in the … [Read more...]
Civility and the CIO
July 17, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 17, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. We spend lots of time with our workers, some of whom are a pleasure to work with, and others..well not so much. Recently the New York Times published a thought provoking opinion from journalist Christine Porath titled No Time to be Nice at Work that explored this subject. She … [Read more...]
CIO’s Role in Responding Instantly: The Remix Era
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Dateline: July 10, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. The only certainty about the future is that it will be different than the present. How good is your organization at responding to it's changing environment? Historically, we've seen many examples of companies who notice a change but can't respond in time. Or, as Professor Benn … [Read more...]
CIO Role in Digital Transformation
June 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
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...]
The Brand of Your IT Department
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Dateline: June 12, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's idea is functional branding...the reputation your IT organization has in your business. Doron Gordon, an entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Samanage, a provider of cloud-based IT service management systems, wrote about functional branding in a blog at … [Read more...]
Bots or Humans?
June 5, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: June 5, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent article at Information Week, Bots Outpace Humans Online, reported on a study by Distil Networks that humans were responsible for only 41% of the traffic online. Good bots, those who add value to the site, and bad bots make up the rest. In 2013, human beings were … [Read more...]
NASA’s 20-year Technology Roadmap
May 29, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: May 29, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently NASA released it's technology roadmap for space exploration for the next 20 years. While most of us have difficulty putting together plans for 5 years, NASA must plan that far out in order to create the future. Roadmaps are a set of documents that consider a wide range … [Read more...]
It’s the People who Make or Break Project Success
April 24, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: April 24, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Professors Fabian J. Sting, Christoph H. Loch and Roto Frank Head of Engineering Dirk Stempfhuber recently published an article in Sloan Management Review titled, Accelerating Projects by Encouraging Help, that highlights the importance of managing behavioral issues as much as … [Read more...]
The Importance of Project Sponsors
March 27, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: March 27, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Professors Timothy J. Kloppenborg and Debbie Tesch, from Xavier University’s Williams College of Business, published a thought-provoking research study about project success in the Sloan Management Review. The article, How Executive Sponsors Influence Project Success, … [Read more...]
