CIO Leadership Stories – Lead By Example
Tweet 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 […] MORE
March 29, 2010
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Shared Services Diamond’s 2010 Business Design Survey
Tweet This is the first of a 3-part series on shared services co-authored with Paul Blase Ayn Rand Would Have Shared More Services, Why Doesn’t Your Company? We all learned that it’s good to share – so why don’t companies share more, when there is more value to be had? Imagine if the architects of […] MORE
March 23, 2010
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CIO Leadership Stories – Learning to Learn
Tweet My family and I just returned from a week long spring break trip to Colorado. I’m very thankful for the opportunity to take a long break, as it’s great to spend that much time with family and friends, and it is also a good recharge. Also, several hours on ski lifts provide some good […] MORE
March 22, 2010
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4 Considerations When Shopping the Google Apps Marketplace
Tweet Guest Post by Nalneesh Gaur Late last year in a post titled “The Future is Partly Cloudy,” Chris Curran and I wrote about the future of cloud computing where we explored pathways for cloud adoption. In this post, I explore consideration when buying SaaS applications. Is the vision of business purchasing all its software […] MORE
March 19, 2010
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5 Roles for IT Innovators
Tweet What is IT’s role in innovation? Is it just about making IT better or is it about driving business value too? We asked 592 business and IT leaders in the US and UK this question in our latest Diamond Digital IQ survey by asking them to choose what innovation role they thought their CIO […] MORE
March 15, 2010
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CIO Guide to Technology Innovation
Tweet Your role in innovation is unclear, but you know the power of information technology in making a real business impact, both operationally and strategically. To paraphrase William Gibson, the ground-breaking science fiction writer: The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed To address the challenge of increasing awareness of technology innovation resources […] MORE
March 13, 2010
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Innovation for the Rest of Us (presentation)
Tweet I had the privilege today of sharing some ideas on innovation at the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference. The two points of my talk were: Companies should spend more time solving problems and less time coming up with brand new ideas. There are plenty of good ideas already brewing in the minds of […] MORE
March 09, 2010
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4 Tiring IT Truisms
Tweet 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 […] MORE
March 03, 2010
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Enterprise Collaboration – What's Your Problem?
Tweet Standing in line at DFW this morning, I glanced over to scan the latest TSA signage. The placard asks that anyone who has feedback to vista the TSA blog. Huh? Why use a blog that’s intended primarily as a publishing channel to collect feedback? That struck me as odd. So, I went to the […] MORE
February 25, 2010
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Does the CEO Care About IT?
Tweet In his latest post, IT project failure expert and writer Michael Krigsman beautifully summarizes the risks associated with the lack of CEO and senior business leaders engagement in information technology investments. Developing support and engaging all of the business leaders in strategic use of IT is a problem Diamond has been studying and helping […] MORE
February 18, 2010
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