Seven Basic Privacy Rights Users Should Demand For Social Business
Public Outrage Grows Over Lax Privacy Polices At Popular Social Networking Sites Recent actions by social networking leaders in the market place have brought new attention to a user’s privacy rights. Despite the fact that these sites provide a freemium service to users, abuse and arrogance of a user’s privacy rights combined with user ignorance [...]
Tuesday’s Tip: Apply Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs To C-Level Business Strategy
Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs Provides Prioritization Of An Individual’s Needs In 1943, Abraham Maslow put forward his paper A Theory of Human Motivation. Eleven years later in 1954, Maslow went into detail on his hierarchy of needs in his book titled Motivation and Personality. The framework outlined five needs from the most fundamental or “deficiency [...]
CIO issues: The search for relevance
A new study from InformationWeek, called Enterprise Apps 2011: Focus on Business Relevance, reinforces the message that IT continues to struggle for relationship and relevance among senior business leaders. This fundamental issue undermines CIOs’ ability to create successful IT programs and initiatives. The report opens with an important theme: “What IT organizations want most is [...]
Research: 75 percent believe IT projects are ‘doomed’
New research describes a highly negative situation in which most survey respondents expect their projects to fail before even starting!
CIO view: Business requirements and the elegant art of ‘no’
A CIO explains the importance of defining business requirements as a prerequisite for IT success.
The Industry Speaks about Cloud, Part II: business execs fear its impact on work culture, IT execs doubt their ability to drive competitive advantage
The Cloud Business Services study we just conducted, in conjunction with the Outsourcing Unit at the London School of Economics, has served up some contrasting concerns that business executives are having versus their IT counterparts: its impact on wo…
Federal gov’t gets serious about IT failures
Vivek Kundra, federal Chief Information Officer, has taken new steps to raise the profile of failed IT projects within the government.
Gov’t CIO interview: Success, failure, and innovation
Information technology projects in the state and federal government tend to be large, complicated, and expensive. Effective collaboration and cross-boundary communication are key drivers of success for these large projects. Certain programs mandated by the government, such as electronic medical records and health information exchange, are particularly susceptible to failure induced by poor communication and [...]
Information silos and IT governance failure
“Governance” is a badass sounding phrase that simply means establishing policies to enable consistent management by exception. But many governance initiatives are doomed to fail.
What if?
CIO Magazine has issued its annual “State of the CIO” set of reports (registration required) In a survey of 600 CIOs in its Executive Council, 34% of CIOs are classified as “function heads” – only 4% of them were focused…
