The Skinny on Lean IT
Tweet by Chris Curran, Steve Legnine and Rob Boudrow Lean, an optimization philosophy embodied in the Toyota Production System, is re-gaining popularity among some of our consumer products clients as they continue to search for ways to do more with less. I’ve asked Diamond’s business process expert, Steve Legnine and our IT optimization guru, Rob […] MORE
August 07, 2009
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The CIO Role: One of Influence or Control?
Tweet I’d like to thank Michael Krigsman for inviting me to join him in the IT Failures town hall yesterday. It was great to interact with a few CIOs and other experts in IT management and leadership and discuss challenges facing the CIO in successfully delivering value. For those who missed it, the entire session […] MORE
July 29, 2009
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"None" is Not a Social Media Strategy
Tweet Saying “No” to social media is a big mistake, especially if the decision was driven by the CIO. Over the last few weeks, I have spoken to two CIOs, one in financial services and one in the public sector, who say their organizations have a “no social media” policy. I agree that there are […] MORE
July 22, 2009
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First Aid for IT Project Failures
Tweet I spent last week at Boy Scout Camp in Oklahoma. One of the benefits of attending a Scout camp as an adult is the great training opportunities available. This year, I was able to get Red Cross certifications in First Aid, Wilderness First Aid and CPR during the week – all very important when […] MORE
July 20, 2009
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Does the Federal IT Dashboard Come With a Decoder Ring?
Tweet Major kudos to the country’s new CIO, Vivek Kundra for setting a vision for open and transparent information and getting right to work. The amount of time between talking about his vision and starting to execute on it with this Federal IT Dashboard has been weeks, not months or years. I thought government was […] MORE
July 08, 2009
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The Problem With IT Benchmarks
Tweet A few years ago, I had the opportunity to meet with the enterprise CIO of a Fortune 50 company in the chemicals and industrial products industries (and many others, as I guess is the case for many giant companies). The subject was justifying enterprise-level IT investments. IT investments that span business units seem to […] MORE
July 01, 2009
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10 CIO Dashboard Tips
Tweet Catch up on the CIO Dashboard Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 As a wrap-up to the CIO Dashboard series, I’ve summarized some of the key points and added a few new ones to this list of 10 CIO Dashboard tips. Thanks to two of my colleagues at Diamond, Jim Quick and Adrian […] MORE
June 25, 2009
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Device, Desktop or Dead Tree?
Tweet Catch up on the Building a CIO Dashboard Series: Part 1, Part 2 Now that we have a few questions answered – do I really need a dashboard, what questions will it answer and what type of dashboard we need, we can discuss how to deliver it. This post will cover the 3 channels […] MORE
June 22, 2009
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The 4 Types of CIO Dashboards
Tweet Read Part I of the Building a CIO Dashboard Series I think the biggest challenge in building a meaningful CIO dashboard lies in the question of what to measure. As my partner Jim Quick says it’s either feast or famine when it comes to measuring IT. You either have so much data you don’t […] MORE
June 15, 2009
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5 Characteristics of a CIO Dashboard
Tweet I figured it was about time for me to tackle the CIO dashboard topic since you’ve been good enough to read along so far and were probably wondering if I would ever get around to it. I think this is a pretty substantial topic, so I plan to use a series of posts to […] MORE
June 11, 2009
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