Dateline: December 7, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, speaking coach and presentation guru Dr. Nick Morgan gave an online interview to Boston Society for Information Management (SIM) President Tom Catalini about how the way we speak can support, or undermine, our ability to lead IT. The 20 min podcast is full of … [Read more...]
Structure Deadlines that Work
November 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 29, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent blog post from Fast Company came to the surprising conclusion that setting 'extremely short' deadlines was not just more productive, but reduced anxiety and made work less boring. Building on Parkinson’s Law about how work expands to fill the available time, Blogger … [Read more...]
Engagement with Online Articles
November 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 22, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Nate Weiner, the founder of Pocket, the "DVR for the web" and a popular online site for keeping track of links you want to view later, has learned some very interesting facts about what people save and what they actually do with what they save. In a recent Fast Company … [Read more...]
Killing Innovation in the Organization
November 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Innovation is, to some, the holy grail of continued success. Getting the innovation process right puts an organization on the path of growth and renewal. Recently, Scott Kirsner, editor of Innovation Leader, an information service for corporate innovation executives, and blogger at Harvard Business Review, wrote about 11 ways a big company undermines their own innovation efforts. To summarize, … [Read more...]
Key Measures of IT: Business Value, not Costs
September 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: September 27, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. In a recent interview of Michelle Bailey, vice president of datacenter initiatives and digital infrastructure with the analyst firm 451 Research, CIO Insight shared her views of what IT leaders ought to be focused on these days. Bailey suggested that IT organizations have … [Read more...]
The Board of Directors’ Expectations of IT
September 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
What does the Board of Directors (BOD) expect from IT? Recently my friend and mentor, Dr. James Cash, published a blog in the HBR blog network, A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right, outlining 4 things: 1. Generating Top-Line Growth-Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will … [Read more...]
Exploit, Don’t Enable
August 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: August 30, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Two of my favorite IT researchers, Dr. Cynthia Beath and Dr. Jeanne Ross from the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT (CISR), recently published a blog on the Harvard Business Review blog network about their recent work. They suggest that company leaders can no longer … [Read more...]
