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Metrics and Measurement

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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