Monday’s Musings: Next Generation CIO’s Face 11 Skill Shifts In A Disruptive World
The Era Of CIO Dictatorships Ends With 2009
Less than 5 years ago, the mighty CIO controlled his or her organization’s destiny by shepherding multi-million dollar projects and ruling with a fist. Business leaders had to pay homage to the IT team and they hated it. The economic crisis, advent of the cloud and SaaS, and [...]
The Unified Performance, Risk, and Compliance Process Model – Part III – Monitor and Analyze
In the first installment of this series, we laid out the performance management lifecycle and its four phases. We also explored in detail the first phase of the PM lifecycle, strategize and prioritize, where we develop and set the strategy, plan risks and set KRIs, plan compliance and set controls, and put together strategic action plans and [...]
Lotus Puts the Labs to Work: On Innovation
I am here at Lotusphere 2010 in Orlando, sitting in the press room. John Fontana from Network World just walked in and and asked me what I thought of the event so far. My reply:
“Well I am not saying Lotus has all its ducks in a row, but at least it has plenty of them [...]
Update: Fieldglass
Local Chicago software firm is growing, prospering and winning in a down economy and tough, consolidating sector. Learn more about Fieldglass and the issues in the contingent services space.
Currency Devaluation: First Venezuela; Next, China?
Venezuela, the most recent former democracy to fall into the hands of
a truly kooky dictator with nationalist ambitions, recently devalued the bolivar in an attempt to shore up its challenged currency. A recent Reuters wire story captured the esse…
Enterprise Clouds Going Hybrid
Listen to my conversation with Jeff Kaplan, managing director of strategic consulting firm THINKstrategies, and one of the foremost analysts tracking software-as-a-service, on-demand and cloud computing. In this podcast, learn why it’s not enough to simply port an existing software package to the cloud without rearchitecting it, and hear about some of the ways enterprises [...]
The Asian Auto Boom: Contrasting India and China
The first time I was in China, I was shocked at the level of interest there
in premium cars, often Western brands. Sure, there were the countless
knock-offs of older Western models, cheaply produced in China (my
favorite reminded me of the o…
Tell me again why the Co-Op exists
$187.75 (including tax) from the Co-op. $143.54 (including one-day shipping) from Amazon.
CRM Watchlist 2010 Part IIIB
Okay, this is the final installment of the CRM 2010 Watchlist from me, though you will be seeing one from Brent Leary on the SMB Social CRM companies to watch in 2010 in the next couple of days. But I’m, “wore out.” My fingers don’t want to write much at the moment, no matter what [...]
Malware Attack on Skype
I’m used to Skype Spam, but not a malvare-attack. Here’s what just popped up on my Skype screen: Registry Online: URGENT SYSTEM SCAN NOTIFICATION ! PLEASE READ CAREFULLY !! http://www.updategt.org/ For the link to become active, please click on ‘Add to contacts’ skype button or type it in manually into your web browser ! FULL [...]
