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Inside the Huddle: Connecting Strategy with Execution

July 23, 2010
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Co-authored with John Sviokla

We’ve hit the point in the summer when football training camps are almost upon us—one of our favorite times of the year. Football, in our opinion, more than other American sports, exemplifies the three dynamics we at Diamond use in assessing a company’s “Digital IQ”—Strategy, Mobilization, and Execution…...

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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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IT Czar – A New IT Leadership Role?

January 14, 2010

With the NFL playoffs in full swing*, most of the league’s teams are on the sidelines thinking about how to get better for next year. Most of the introspection involves evaluating coaches and players. One new front office hire that is particularly interesting is Cleveland’s recruiting of Mike Holmgren as its new president. He is known as the architect of very successful Green Bay Packers teams (75-37 record) and the cultivator of a high quality ...

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Can Haptics Touch the Enterprise?

January 7, 2010

I had the chance to drive the 2010 Lexus HS 250 hybrid while my car was in the shop. While it’s good to see more hybrids hitting the road, the more interesting thing to me was the new navigation system and the controller that drives it. Aside from several mediocre dial-oriented efforts from BMW, Audi and others, most nav systems these days seem to be touchscreens, both factory installed and add-ons. The new Lexus controller ...

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4 CIO Priorities for 2010 (slideshow)

August 23, 2009

I had the opportunity to speak to 100+ of India’s top CIOs yesterday at the 10th Annual CTO Forum in Beijing – it’s been a great event so far.  I thought I would share the presentation I made that builds a case for 4 CIO leadership priorities to take into next year’s planning (or maybe before). I know that just looking at the slides is never as good as participating in the discussion, but have ...

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