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Business Change Management Using Weak Signals

August 2, 2010
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A Fortune 500 company embarks on an ambitious program to implement a Master Data Management solution. Three years and a $100M later, executive leadership decides that too much money has been sunk into the program and the anticipated objectives have not been realized. The program is shut down…...

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CIO Guide to Social Media

May 3, 2010
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Social media’s impact on the enterprise is still unclear.  For every compelling story about Dell or Starbucks there are stories about wasted time and security concerns.  What is clear is that the new ways of socializing electronically are here to stay – until a newer, cooler, more exciting once comes along to take its place (MySpace anyone?). It is also unclear who in the enterprise will emerge as the champion for social media.  Maybe it ...

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CIO Leadership Stories – Lead By Example

March 29, 2010

This is the second of three leadership stories I’ve been reflecting on aided by the brisk mountain air during Spring Break last week.  If you missed it, here is the first story about learning to ski and learning to learn.  I hope these stories provide some inspiration for you and your teams. Helmets Are A No-Brainer When my wife and I started to ski together with our sons, we decided that we would wear helmets ...

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Using Weak Signals to Detect Troubled Projects

October 2, 2009

Every little bit helps in sniffing out projects that are destined for trouble.  You would think that with 10+ years of project success data from Standish and others, we would have collectively improved things significantly.  This is not the case. So, I read with interest Paul Shoemaker and George Day’s article in the Spring 2009 MIT Sloan Management Review called How to Make Sense of Weak Signals with an eye toward applying these ideas to ...

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Can a CIO be Successful Without IT Experience?

September 22, 2009

Last week, the Financial Times ran an article about Sir Ian Andrews, the new leader of the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (analogous to the FBI) describing some concerns about his lack of relevant experience.  Apparently, there are some who are mad that more hasn’t been done to control over 4,000 gangs and a £ 40B black market. Here’s a quote from Sir Ian: I don’t think being chairman of a large organisation does require ...

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Top 5 CIO Tweets of the Week – September 11, 2009

September 11, 2009

The travel doesn’t seem to quit as I hit London this week and will be back next week too.  Here are some of the great CIO and IT leadership tweets of the week that I’ve been able to collect while in the Admirals Club. [tweetlist:3785207801] 1.  I haven’t heard much from the 1-to-1 marketing guru Don Peppers lately but stumbled on this post.  I like it because it’s not coming from an IT leader, but ...

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Top 5 CIO Tweets of the Week – August 21, 2009

August 21, 2009

I’m posting this weeks Top 5 list from Beijing as I get ready for the CTO Forum Conference.  Sorry if my writing seems a bit jet-lagged and for the low volume (read: none) of Tweets.  China still seems a bit put off by Twitter. [tweetlist:3388084576] [tweetlist:3392741191] 1-2. The first post set of a series of conversations about the differences between a list of IT thought leaders on Twitter and a list of CIOs on Twitter ...

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Top 5 CIO Tweets of the Week – August 14, 2009

August 14, 2009

This week’s #CIO tweets were overshadowed by John C. Dvorak’s assertion that our nation’s CIO, Vivek Kundra, is a fraud – at least his resume might be. You will need to make up you own mind on that one. [tweetlist:3266652940] 1.  I have been a PC Magazine reader for years, but never got into reading John C. Dvorak’s rants.  Never could really understand half of what he was saying.  His Tweet Wednesday grabbed my attention ...

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Professional Identity Online – Are You a Dog?

August 12, 2009

Peter Steiner published his infamous “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” cartoon in 1993.  This mental image for me was just a joke – until recently.  For the most part, you know the people who email you, link up with on Facebook or LinkedIn.  Those you don’t recognize, you just write off as spam or a mistake. Today, Twitter is buzzing with an expose penned by John C. Dvorak, of PC Mag editorial ...

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Top 5 CIO Tweets of the Week – August 7, 2009

August 10, 2009

Instead of cranking out #followfriday all day last Friday, I thought I would try something new by listing some of my favorite #CIO tweets from the week. Hope you like them and find some new follows as a result. Let me know what you think. [tweetlist:3140019138] Diamond has a few clients who are using Agile techniques in Web-centric projects with some good success. I was looking for some adoption data and found a Forrester survey ...

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