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Learning by Doing with Labs

August 9, 2011
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Every summer, I spend a week camping with my kids’ Boy Scout troop.  This year, we had the opportunity to camp, hike and fish in the Colorado Rockies near Pike’s Peak. A by-product of a week away from constant email, phone calls and meetings is time to think. A few summers ago, one of these thoughts was how to apply first aid lessons to better project management. This summer’s camp was alongside the South Platte ...

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Demystifying Business Innovation

June 9, 2011
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Guest post by John Sviokla Why innovate? Because the growth of your business ― and, ultimately, its success and sustainability ― demands it. In the past two decades over a billion new customers have entered the market economy, mostly in the parts of the world we now refer to as “emerging markets”. In the eyes of today’s CEO ― regardless of his or her home market ― that’s where the action is: it’s among the ...

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3 CTO Role Models

April 11, 2011
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Given the game-changing possibilities of information technology and the ever-increasing complexity of the corporate IT platform, it is time to consider elevating enterprise leadership roles along-side the CIO. The first place for us to start is with the Chief Technology Officer. While the CIO role and scope of responsibility is more understood, the CTO and her role is much less clear. While I don’t have a formula that will work in every case, the successful ...

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Medical Technology Innovation

January 31, 2011
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Is your company planting seeds in countries that have the most fertile ground for innovation? That’s an important question for CIOs who are thinking strategically about technology’s impact on the business. In a global business ecosystem, a nimble competitor can leapfrog you with an unanticipated technology advance. Or you can tap into these ideas first. But if your innovation portfolio doesn’t extend outside the U.S., you’re probably missing something. I’ve written before about the possibility ...

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5 Innovations for 2011

January 1, 2011
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” said Alan Kay, one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces, back in 1971 as quoted in SmallTalk.org. That’s sage advice for the CIO trying to determine where technology is headed, and what it means for the company. Seventy percent of the senior business and IT executives in PwC’s Diamond Advisory Services’ 2010 Digital IQ study said that ...

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5 Reasons Consumer Innovations Outpace the Enterprise

October 19, 2010
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With all of the killer apps and data, social systems, creative visualization and different devices out there in the consumer space, why we aren’t making more and faster progress in adopting some of them in the companies where we work?  If I can use Wolfram Alpha on my iPhone to ask a question why can’t I get the same kinds of information on my phone to support my business decision making? I had the great ...

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Business Innovation or IT Innovation?

October 5, 2010
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Business Innovation or IT Innovation – Video Blog Transcript In the most recent issue of Sloan Management Review, Sloan introduced a new study they are doing along with IBM called the New Intelligent Enterprise. In the study, they surveyed 3000 executives and asked them for their top priority over the next two years. They didn’t answer cost, or growth, or risk, or agility – they said “to achieve competitive differentiation through innovation.” Contrast that with ...

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A CIO’s Own Learning and Development Plan

August 19, 2010
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An article in the latest Fast Company describes “How TED Became the New Harvard – Only Bigger.”  TED and Harvard are certainly not the same kinds of animals, but TED has introduced us to a broad set of ideas and is delivering them in brand new ways.  After watching the videos from afar, I’m planning to attend TED in 2011 and will certainly blog about it.  New models for learning and networking like TED highlight ...

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Can You Outsource Innovation?

August 13, 2010
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I’m writing this as I finish up a great week of vacation on the Baltic Sea with my wife and some friends.  While our main destination was St. Petersburg, Russia, an unexpected surprise was our visit to Tallinn, Estonia.  As you can see in the photo above, Tallinn has many old churches and a well-preserved walled old town.  What you can’t see in the photo is the energy and positive outlook in its people, much ...

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Shared Services Need Shared Management

August 4, 2010
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One of our travel clients has several thousand locations across the globe where they serve customers. While there are different brands and cultures, many of the functions are more common than they are unique. To make things more interesting, many of the local businesses are franchises, greatly increasing coordination complexity…...

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