CIO = Cheap Infrastructure Officer?

Do businesses really regard their CIO as the Cheap Infrastructure Officer?

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Well that was the thrust of an extremely interesting observation made by Ilhan Aksoycan, who commented on one of my earlier articles about the future role of the CIO.

I am sure that many will dispute the attribution of cheap infrastructure

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gentle art of provocation

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Sustainable change depends on effective provocation, as an instigator for essential destabilisation.

Sometimes a gentle provocation is sufficient to create the right environment for change.

But very often the subject organizations or people are simply too entrenched in their ways to be change-ready. That’s when the provocation needs to be harsher.

Finding the right

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Ghosts in the machine

Picture credit: peasap

Picture credit: peasap

Fall off in business levels, may be due to the financial recession but we must also recognise that reduced personal productivity, due to worry, is now a major risk to organizational performance.

These are turbulent times and many people are uncertain of their future employment. This will mean that their minds are increasingly on the job, but mostly on keeping the job, not necessarily on doing the job. Continue reading article »

Seminar: The Effective Enterprise Framework™

The Effective Enterprise Framework™ is a powerful business approach designed to improve the effectiveness of every organisation – regardless of geography, size, scale, or line of business.

Here are ten ways that The Effective Enterprise Framework™ adds real value:

Creates comprehensive and coherent linkages between, Vision, Strategy, Policy and Operations. Synergises previous investments, such as Balanced Scorecard, ABC,

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