IT’s Toxic Assets and Self-Funded Stimulus Plan

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

OK – so I’m climbing on the latest news headlines – forgive me, but I do see an analogy that is important for IT leaders to be aware of.  Current business conditions mean this is a great time for CIO’s to clean up their back yards, and aggressively “kick the IT legacy problem in the [...]

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Recession and the Crisis of IT Employee Engagement

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve been recently working on a multi-company research project on Managing IT in Recessionary Times.  In support of that project, I have taken advantage of every CIO conversation I’ve had lately (probably at least one such conversation per day for the last month or so) to ask about how this recession is impacting their company [...]

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IT and Recession: Time to Partner With the CFO?

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve posted before that realizing value from IT-enabled business investments requires both a partnership between IT and the business (duh!), but also a partnership between the CIO and CFO.  This can provide the credibility and linkages necessary to ensure that meaningful metrics are defined and tracked, and that accountabilities, both for costs and value, are [...]

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Social Networking for IT Organizations in a Recession

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve been thinking about a couple of things my CIO clients are wrestling with, and how these might be better approached jointly rather than as separate challenges.  These are: How to strengthen Business-IT Relationships in the context of the current economic climate. How to experiment with, learn from and foster Social Networking in the business [...]

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IT in a Recession – What’s Different this Time?

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

Like most of us, I’ve been thinking about the current economic climate and its implications for IT leaders.  I posted back in early September in The Economy, Information Technology and Opportunity Creation that it is now more important than ever to find creative and constructive ways to drive growth and innovation by whatever means.  I’ve [...]

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Social Networking in a Downturn…

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

My esteemed colleague Susan Scrupski had a great post the other day entitled “The trouble with social media is, well, people” where she captured something quite important.  It has always been clear that social networking can be both a positive and negative force – but Susan nicely connected the potential and impact of social media [...]

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A Tale of 2 CIO’s: Proactive Innovator vs. Reactive Operator

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Vaughan Merlyn

I had the privilege of participating as both a speaker and an attendee at one of nGenera’s joint IT/HR Summits in Austin last week on ‘Next Generation Technologies for Next Generation Enterprises.’  These are 3-day sessions where CIO’s and VP’s of HR come together to share and learn about key business issues on their joint [...]

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