Dateline: September 12, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from a column titled, "The Social Business Gets Results", written by Sam Greengard at Baseline Magazine. ...in the rapidly unfolding digital age, it's clear that electronic interaction is systematically remapping and rewiring the central nervous … [Read more...]
Business Unit- IT Alignment on the Internet of Things
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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
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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...]
Outcome-Based Outsourcing
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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...]
Internet of Things: Shift from Products to Services
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Dateline: August 8, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from two articles published this year at Information Age, a UK-based website for IT leaders, on the Internet of Things (IoT). The first, published earlier this year, is titled, 4 things that will happen in the Internet of Things space in 2014. In that … [Read more...]
The Title of CIO Could Be The Problem
August 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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
July 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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...]
CIO Leadership 101: Trust Comes From Transparency
June 13, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: June 13, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week we explore trust- specifically trust between you and your business partners and customers. Recently, Charles Araujo, founder and CEO of the IT Transformation Institute, published an installment of his 8-part series on Seven Steps to a Next-Generation IT Organization. … [Read more...]
