IT Management Lessons from Scuba Diving

I note in my About page that “from time to time I will digress to my hobby passions because I sometimes find interesting connections or insights from them.”  Well, perhaps its an excuse to indulge a hobby through this blog, but one of those “time’s” has come as I’m on a scuba vacation with plenty [...]

Is Your IT Organization an Enabler? Or a Preventer?

A really short post today (could have been a Tweet if I were so inclined!)  I got a great comment from a CIO client to my post yesterday on the ROI of Enterprise 2.0.  He said, One of Dion Hincliffe’s lines definitely hits home for me… “In the end, all one can actually do predictably [...]

Don’t Look for ROI on Enterprise 2.0 – Look for Value!

Dion Hinchcliffe had a superb post on Determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0.  The post cites several authoritative and useful sources on the subject.  It also hypothesizes several reasons for the mostly “wait and see” attitude currently taken by most IT leaders and business managers. But I mainly want to focus on the business case [...]

Best Buy and Web 2.0

I’ve posted quite a few times on Web 2.0 capabilities as a way to drive new energy, and even innovation, into an IT organization and the company it serves. The Wikinomics blog (full disclosure – this is affiliated with nGenera Corporation, the company I am with) just posted a very nice piece on how Best [...]

Supposing You Funded IT Like a Charitable Donation?

I’ve had this IT funding fantasy for years (I know, it’s really sad that my more exciting fantasies are to do with IT funding scenarios!) Supposing the CIO had to do a fund drive every year or every six months the way our local National Public Radio stations had to operate in order to fund [...]

An IT PMO Glossary

I’ve been working with a couple of clients around PMO’s and the thorny space of Portfolio and Program Management.  Not coincidentally, this continues to prove to be an area of great leverage for organizations trying to drive up their business-IT maturity (and with that, increase the business value delivered through IT investments, assets and capabilities.)  [...]

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