Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
People with talent often make the rest of us believe that being a great artist is “easy”. Of course, what most people don’t think about is the years and years of hard work and dedication that goes into a seemingly effortless performance. Nor, more importantly, do they care. The same goes for IT. Unless you…
The familiar refrain “reinvent yourself” has never been more sound for those in search of career advancement today. Fortunately for the CIO, reinvention is a relatively easy thing to do given the innovations IT wields every day. It’s a matter of looking at those technologies differently and seeing them as much as a means to…
I would like to start this series on effective executive communication by first exploring the area of listening. What are the blocks and barriers that stop you from being a master listener? How can we master in-flow? How can we be truly “present” to another person’s communication? Once the muscle of effective listening is developed…
When a company hires a consultant to assess their systems, they are really asking if everything is being done well. They’re also asking is there anything that should change — and therein lays the rub. Change is difficult for many people and particularly hard if you don’t know why things should change. I’ve had the…
Business is starting to pick up, and demand is growing within your IT department. But signs of a sustained economic turnaround are still somewhat murky and, despite the need for new staff, you’re not yet convinced it’s time to hire. After all, you had to lay off workers when the recession hit and you don’t…
The clouds are moving in, a storm front of lightening fast change. Its cresting waves threatening to drown corporate IT jobs in a sea of irrelevance. The CIO stands in the tempest wondering if his role, too, will be washed away. With all things IT inevitably moving to the cloud, how is an earthbound soul…
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple’s betting big that the iPad will be the next great “must have” consumer device. So far, that bet’s looking pretty good as Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) selling about as many iPads as it can make . But the tablet PC is finding a home in businesses too, with what one Google (NASDAQ:…
They should have re-named this year’s Interop “Up in the Cloud” because the dominant theme at this April’s business computing show was the time has come for Cloud computing. And yet there remains so much that many of us — CIOs very much included — still don’t get about this fundamental shift of computing out…
In a global survey of CIOs undertaken by Harvey Nash and PA Consulting Group, 71 percent of participants revealed their roles were becoming more strategic and, for the first time since the survey began in 1998, more than half said that they sit on the operational boards for their co companies. Moreover the 2010 CIO…
Technology-driven transformation in the 21st Century business environment puts a premium on the type of model we adopt. Not only are entirely new business models possible they are also necessary for survival. But they must be designed in a manner that allows them to morph into something new on the fly when the environment changes…