Dateline: March 8, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently I picked up a Businessweek from November and found an interesting article about data bartering. The article is titled Bartering: Swapping Data Like Baseball Cards. In the article the authors describe how companies are finding hidden value in their data by exchanging data … [Read more...]
Building A ‘Touch First’ Business Model
March 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: March 1, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Our thought for today comes from an article written by Ewan Duncan, a McKinsey consultant, published in the Economist. The article, Moving from “Mobile First” to “Touch First” documents research that McKinsey and Company has conducted on fundamental changes in the way people interact … [Read more...]
Gartner’s Predictions: IT Trends for 2013
February 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: February 22, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, Gartner published their annual state-of-the-CIO survey results. They concluded that today’s senior IT leaders are in a period of transition, realizing that there is so much more potential to harness from today’s technology. CIO Insight summarized the findings with this … [Read more...]
Planning for Unintended Consequences from IT
February 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: February 15, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A blog by Sanne Bloemarts, a teacher and member of Educational Technology and Information Literacy (COETAIL), brought to light a simple framework for understanding how technology can be integrated into the classroom. She adapted research by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, a consultant with … [Read more...]
Hiring for Teams: The Whole Foods Approach
February 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline February 8, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently Fortune Magazine published an excerpt of the new book by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and colleague Raj Sisodia, Conscious Capitalism, describing key components of the Whole Foods management philosophy. A key part of this philosophy is the hiring and management of … [Read more...]
Critical Project Management Skills for IT
February 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: February 1, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Project management is a critical role for every IT organization. But putting the right person in the role of project management is often an art, rather than a science. A recent article at CIO.com, by Jennifer Lonoff Schiff, 7 Must-Have Project Management Skills for IT Pros, … [Read more...]
Planning for Perpetual Connectivity
January 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 25, 2013 Welcome the Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Forrester analyst Melissa Parrish blogged about enterprise mobility and how “perpetual connectivity will change the world.” She reported that more than ½ of US consumers own smartphones and 20% own a tablet, supporting the predictions of rapid proliferation of devices, and the impact … [Read more...]
Lunch Roulette
January 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 11, 2013 Welcome to the Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. January is always a time of renewing promises and setting goals for the coming year, and many write about resolutions. One common resolution is to broaden our personal and professional networks. This week’s WRAP is about one company’s solution to facilitate this. Harvard … [Read more...]
Developing a Competency in Conflict Resolution
January 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: Friday, January 4, 2013 Happy New Year! Welcome to our Friday WRAP 2013! This blog is a spinout of the IT Leaders Forum. Each Friday, we publish a short blog, with a link to something found around the web, and a though provoking question for the weekend. The Friday WRAP has been around in a private mode for several years, but today, we launch the public version. The beginning of … [Read more...]
