Are There Any Real CIOs in the Twitterverse?
Tweet That’s the question I set out to answer. I’ll tell you about the frustrating journey, which might be useful for anyone trying to find a particular interest group. And I’ll tell you what I found (and am sharing in detail at my CIO Twitter Dashboard). Is There Anybody Out There? I have sorted through […] MORE
June 04, 2009
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The Art of Why
Tweet Many of the words associated with information technology reflect the long-standing focus on how to do things. Software engineering, methodology, use cases, BPM, governance, and workflow are just some examples. This makes sense because IT is complex and focusing on getting better is part of the challenge. With this as a backdrop, think about […] MORE
June 02, 2009
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Is Agile Development an Option?
Tweet by Henry Hwangbo, Guest Author Agility is a term that is applied to everything from sports to dog shows, and everything in between. More recently, agility has been used to describe engineering methods, including software. In the mid-1990s, “lightweight” software methods gained some traction, aided in part to the growth of object oriented analysis […] MORE
May 29, 2009
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4 Steps to Manage Your Technology Portfolio
Tweet This post is about managing the life and death of technologies in an enterprise. Not projects or applications, but the portfolio of the underlying technologies – operating systems, DBMSs, development tools, middleware, etc. These must be managed too or you will find yourself in the same situation as a client CIO of a large […] MORE
May 27, 2009
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The Apple Enterprise Business Case: Happier Users
Tweet As a consultant, I have the benefit of seeing the trends of many companies as well as the behaviors of my own firm. One is the explosion of iPhones, as both sanctioned and unsanctioned enterprise devices. Another is the buzz surrounding Apple desktops and laptops in the enterprise computing scene, to the point where […] MORE
May 21, 2009
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Is the Cloud a Key to Sustainability?
Tweet The MIT Industrial Liaison Program holds an annual conference for its sponsors focused on technology and telecommunications. This year’s event had excellent breadth, featuring Esther Dyson, the CTO of Blue State Digital (developers of Obama’s online social media platform), the director of MIT’s game development lab in Singapore and several others. The one presentation […] MORE
May 20, 2009
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Is the Open Source Conversation Dead?
Tweet One of my partners was asked by the Chief Information Officer of a major financial services organization for some help thinking through his open source strategy. Honestly, the open source conversation has not come up much lately. Is open source in the enterprise a dead issue? Have companies already tapped into the open source […] MORE
May 15, 2009
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A CIO Can't Do More with Less
Tweet Yes, I realize that “doing more with less” is a saying that is used to encapsulate the increased pressure on the enterprise, and the IT function specifically, to keep the business running with less revenue coming in and lower budgets. But, it bugs me because I think the saying propagates the myths that somehow […] MORE
May 12, 2009
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5 IT Governance Attitudes Foreshadow Failure
Tweet After you have the organization following your core IT processes (more on that here), you are ready to add effective IT governance to increase productivity and alignment. Before you do this, make sure that you squash any of these five attitudes that may exist in your teams that will implement governance – they will […] MORE
May 07, 2009
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Do CIOs Develop Leaders Like NCAA Coaches?
Tweet by Chris Curran, with research by Michael Mariani I am very passionate about coaching team sports and have been a basketball player most of my life. So, I read with great interest a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article, What Can Managers Learn From College Basketball? There are three very interesting points: 1. That […] MORE
May 05, 2009
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