I came across this article over at CFO.com and couldn’t agree with it more. It illustrates the importance of collaboration between business stakeholders and IT to any successful technology project — a topic we’ve all heard a dozen times. What’s the big deal? We all do things with the best of intentions; nobody ever begins
Read More...It’s clear that 2011 was the year of the cloud, with many traditional enterprise vendors accepting that the cloud is something they can no longer denigrate or ignore. The ‘cloud’ buzzword has been (sometimes annoyingly) tossed around for upwards of two years, but last year is when it hit critical mass in terms of action,
Read More...Here’s Neven Mrgan illustrating what Apple’s iMessage — the new iOS-to-iOS messaging service — did to his text messaging usage: Note the iOS 5 launch line — that’s when iMessage was introduced. This matches my experience directly. Almost everyone I message frequently has an iPhone, and my sending of actual text messages has dropped massively.
Read More...Happy new year, everyone. Glad to be back. Today’s post is about pursuit, and how it applies to leadership. What is pursuit? How does it relate to leadership? Good question. Mike Myatt over at Forbes.com says that great leaders aren’t content with the status quo, static thinking or conventional wisdom. Instead, they purse excellence, truth,
Read More...Got some downtime this week? Bob Sutton wants to help you fill it. Here’s his list of the 11 books every leader should read, and it’s a good one. I have Made to Stick already downloaded as a sample on my Kindle, and I’m going to download Thinking, Fast and Slow too (I’m a bit
Read More...A Note About Blogging Frequency As we head into the holidays, posting will be a little light here. It’s not that I don’t love you guys, but I’m pretty sure/hopeful you have other things to be doing over the next two weeks than reading a blog. If you seriously can’t get enough, I have two
Read More...You read that right: RIM, as a company, is now worth less than Apple’s App Store, a fragment of a company, alone. An analysis from Trefis places the value of the App Store at 2 percent of Apple’s market cap. AAPL stock has a market cap of $354 billion, or more than 50 times greater
Read More...The backstory: there’s some sentiment (especially from Information week editors/contributors) surrounding this past Oracle OpenWorld that suggests Mark Hurd and other Oracle executives didn’t demonstrate enough vision. In such a wake, Oracle’s Mark Hurd granted InjformationWeek’s Rob Preston another interview to relay a message that’s refreshing clear and to-the-point: Oracle knows CIOs. Here are the
Read More...Atos, a tech company, has just banned internal email by decree of CEO Thierry Breton: CEO Thierry Breton of the French information technology company said only 10 percent of the 200 messages employees receive per day are useful and 18 percent is spam. That’s why he hopes the company can eradicate internal emails in 18 months, forcing the company’s
Read More...Do you overthink things? Does this article sound like something you need? I have chronic, epic, daily failures with this, as I can overanalyze what gym socks to wear on what day given forecasted temperatures, footwear expectations and workout frequency (this is a real example, one that’s even scarier and more anxiety-inducing when I see
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