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 […]
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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 […]
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IT’s role in Beijing Olympics
No commentsInformationWeek’s IT Olympics Weblog quotes some of the stats as shown below from the Paris base IT service company called Atos Origin that managed the IT infrastructure at Beijing Olympics.
Systems in Beijing securely processed a more than 80% greater volume of data on competition for media and news agencies worldwide, compared with the Olympics in […]
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Open Innovation – Is it really the next step?
1 comment so farInnovation has always been a proprietary activity conducted largely inside the organization in a series of closely managed steps. Ideas, product design were closely held secrets because innovative and radical design has always provided competitive advantage to the company. The firms by patenting the design/ideas usually created a high barrier for competitors to emulate their […]
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Banking Crisis and IT Spending
No commentsThe multinational U.S. and European banks are in the news lately due to ongoing credit crunch. All of them are desperately trying to recapitalize and stop their falling stock prices. They are reducing headcount, getting rid of non-performing asset in an effort to survive a volatile environment of purging excesses they created. You might be […]
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Indian IT Exec Mind Set
No commentsDown to Business: The Mind Set of The Indian IT Exec by Rob Preston at InformationWeek is an interesting observation of Indian IT Exec Mind Set from an American journalist perspective. Having talked to several American IT Exec. over the period of several years, Preston visits India for the first time. His observation compares and […]
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McKinsey Survey on Enterprise 2.0
No commentsCompanies that are deriving business value from Web 2.0 tools are now shifting from using them experimentally to adopting them as part of a broader business practice according to the latest McKinsey Global Survey Results titled Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise (you need to register to read the complete article). This survey also shows that […]
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