Archive for September, 2008
Re-Branding CIO
No commentsThe first step in managing IT Manager, CIO brand is understanding one’s environment. IT managers persist in believing their work is about deploying hardware and software when, in fact, their primary job is about deploying change. CIOs are selling change to people who often don’t want it. This is according to SearchCIO article CIOs must […]
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Wells Fargo’s Strategy to Filter Out Innovative Ideas
No commentsGlen Grosslight senior VP of the Technology Information for Wells Fargo writes about an unique way to enable the employees to innovate. They have used a stock exchange concept in which team members trade shares on innovative ideas. Hence a ‘free market’ for ideas and innovation was born. (Read more at Wells Fargo Uses Market […]
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Change Management Maturity
No commentsIT must implement an effective, mature method of change management or experience significant downtime and negative impact on productivity and profits according to Dennis Powell in his Enterprise Systems article titled Five Keys to Successful Change Management Maturity.
Application and infrastructure change requests of all sizes — from large-scale and important projects to small and low-priority […]
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Software Quality
No commentsIT management tends to define QA as being simply “testing”. As such, they often view QA as just bringing in some warm bodies to run some test scripts once the coding is all finished. There is actually far more to QA than just testing, and there is far more to testing than just running test […]
Popularity: 23% [?]
JIT Strategy
No commentsExcellent article on changing corporate strategy on McKinsey Quarterly titled Just-in-time strategy for a turbulent world. Article states that the classic approach to corporate strategy starts with a presumption: that with sufficient analytical rigor and an adequate assessment of the probabilities, strategists can pave a predictable path to the future from the matter of the […]
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CIO 2.0
No commentsNortel’s CIO Steven J. Bandrowczak’s writes in his blog titled ‘The Changing Role of CIO’ “… the reliable and secure communications technology is vital in a marketplace where the workforce is becoming increasingly mobile. In this new culture of connectivity, CIOs have an opportunity to make a difference in their company’s strategy and embrace this […]
Popularity: 32% [?]
