Business Integration: the BIGGEST opportunity yet for IT

Speaking out for joined-up-management

ColinB speaking the ICTWM conference 2010

This topic is all about ambition and opportunity. We often hear about ‘joined up thinking.’ But nobody seems to be doing anything about making sure that we have properly joined-up-management for a joined-up-world. Continue reading article »

Online wiseguys sit down

The Yorkshire Mafia

Enthusiastic individuals and corporate marketing professionals alike are desperate to learn the secret of what makes an online group grow into an effective and viable community. This is the challenge for everyone in the “connected” world.

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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 as the Continue reading article »

The CIO is dead, long live the CIO

Hard times call for hard thinking, supplemented by effective action. Achieving and sustaining our future relevance in the currently turbulent economic context will need a radical new approach to the way we deliver value to our enterprise stakeholders.

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A good first step would be to scrap the role of Chief Information Officer and create a genuinely Continue reading article »

Breaking the envelope gag

Picture credit: Sarabbit

Here are a couple of thought-provoking questions:

What is the best advice you have been given by a predecessor? What advice do you give your successor?

Reflecting on your answers might help to avoid falling into the traps of the three envelope gag (see below) which painfully describes the all too common difficulty of transmitting hard-won Continue reading article »

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