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4 Tiring IT Truisms

March 3, 2010

I’ve spent the last several weeks thinking a lot about the enterprise collaboration and enterprise 2.0 space given increasing interest by our clients.  One of my colleagues sent along a link to a related post about Enterprise 2.0 adoption.  The summary is much appreciated.  What I don’t appreciate as much is the use of generic truisms by experts when asked for specific advice in thinking about a concept, approach, technology or vendor. There are 4 ...

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The Problem With IT Benchmarks

July 1, 2009

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to meet with the enterprise CIO of a Fortune 50 company in the chemicals and industrial products industries (and many others, as I guess is the case for many giant companies).  The subject was justifying enterprise-level IT investments.  IT investments that span business units seem to be a tricky thing for companies without a CEO who isn’t a strong IT champion and those without an investment culture ...

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5 Characteristics of a CIO Dashboard

June 11, 2009

I figured it was about time for me to tackle the CIO dashboard topic since you’ve been good enough to read along so far and were probably wondering if I would ever get around to it. I think this is a pretty substantial topic, so I plan to use a series of posts to cover it over the next few weeks. Part 1 (this post) explores the rationale for and attributes of a CIO dashboard.  ...

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The Art of Why

June 2, 2009

Many of the words associated with information technology reflect the long-standing focus on how to do things.  Software engineering, methodology, use cases, BPM, governance, and workflow are just some examples.  This makes sense because IT is complex and focusing on getting better is part of the challenge. With this as a backdrop, think about some of the questions that you discuss with other parts of the business. Maybe some of these will sound familiar: Why ...

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