Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Much has been said and written about the gap between IT and business and the need for IT to understand business requirements. However, many IT executives try to bridge that gap by aligning IT’s capabilities with the direct, yet sometimes conflicting, requirements from various business functions across the organization. This is a narrow view of…
Biz Stone, a co-founder of Twitter, recently spoke at one of our conferences. According to Biz, he and his team first knew they had something at the SXSW conference in Austin, TX. His friends were using an early version of the micro-blogging service to let one another know what bars they were moving to —…
If I could offer one idea that will have a huge impact on your success and your satisfaction with work it would be that you give yourself time to think — with purpose. (You can stop reading here if you accept that point!) I work with so many executives that tell me they would be…
Since the Tower of Babel, large organizational changes have had a tendency to fall apart during implementation. Even with modern engineering methods and technologies only about 1-in-3 of organizational change initiatives survive beyond their initial implementation. So can anything be done to improve the odds and avoid costly failures? Yes, here are some steps to…
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I was working with a CEO and his executive team on their strategy when we came to an interesting point in the day about their needing a game-changing initiative. The group brainstormed for awhile, and discussed several potential game changers. We narrowed the list to three really cool ideas. Then came the big question: Which…
In the quest to compete in a “new and improved” world, innovation became a catch-all term for anything that is different from that which came before. But change for change’s sake is not innovation and innovation, as new and shiny as it may be, is not the same thing as invention and invention is not…
From Facebook feeds and YouTube videos to sales and customer data, individuals and enterprises have become constant generators of digital content. In fact, according to a 2009 blog post by Andreas Weigend in the Harvard Business Review, more data was generated in 2009 than in the entire history of mankind. This onslaught of data is…
The second basic plot of the IG story is “fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD).” This story focuses on the risk side of IG. This has been a relatively easy story to tell in the past few years, with many massive business failures, data breaches and high profile court cases tied to IG shortfalls. A note…
In a recent study on information governance, the Economist Intelligence Unit found that the single biggest worldwide challenge to successful adoption of information governance (IG) is the difficulty of identifying its benefits and costs. In other words, the difficulty of understanding and making the case for IG. Since I will be writing a series of…