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March 22, 2009
Why We Miss the Planning Mark
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We’ve all been there asking why we missed the signs while others saw them head-on and benefited in some way. This happens with financial in...
March 21, 2009
Challenges of a Change Agent
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I have always been fascinated by leadership and how to grow an organization in spite of a broad variety of obstacles to change and maturity....
March 15, 2009
Leadership Should Integrate Spirituality and Mission
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I remember learning in religious day school that people are half spiritual beings and half animal and that it was a person’s duty (or test i...
March 14, 2009
Bridging the Business and IT Divide
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Leadership is all about people. In the simplest terms, you can’t be a leader without followers. And to inspire and motivate people to follo...
March 12, 2009
What It Means to Get Madoff-ed
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"Saying he was 'deeply sorry and ashamed,' Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty Thursday to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in...
March 8, 2009
We Need A Grand Vision—Let It Be Smart!
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We can build systems that are stand-alone and require lots of hands-on monitoring, care, and feeding or we can create systems that are smart...
March 7, 2009
6 CIO Tools for Managing IT Risk
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“The consequences of not managing risk have hit Americans square in the jaw.”-- Government Executive magazine, March 2009 Too often CIOs ...
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March 1, 2009
Cybots to the Rescue
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In the Star Trek series Voyager, the (cyb)Borg wants to assimilate everyone (literally every species and they are given numbers to keep trac...
February 28, 2009
It’s Time to Invest in The Cloud
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Cloud computing is "shorthand for centralized computing services that are delivered over the Internet (a.k.a. the 'cloud').&quo...
February 27, 2009
Lessons from Space for CIOs
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There are no CIOs in space. At least not yet. Someday, as we colonize space, there will be. And information technology will be more importan...
February 25, 2009
Security Architecture Q&A
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Recently, I was interviewed on the subject of Security Architecture and was given permission to share the Q&A: In general, what kinds of...
February 22, 2009
Disruptive Technologies
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When companies get cozy, the marketplace gets innovative and from out of nowhere...a disruptive technology upends things. We've seen th...
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February 21, 2009
No Choice But to Change
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It’s easy to get into a rut and just follow the status quo that we’re used to. People do it all the time. It’s doing what we know. It’s co...
February 16, 2009
It's Not The Systems, Stupid
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Being a CIO is not just about information technology—IT is a service. The real job of a CIO is truly understanding the IT needs of their cu...
February 14, 2009
The Stimulus Plan and User-Centric Enterprise Architecture
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Just something I am thinking about... Per Wall Street Journal, 14-15 February 2008, Stimulus Plan = 1,073 pages . Imagine this...alternative...
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February 10, 2009
Reflections On The Role of a Federal Chief Technology Officer
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Had interview today with Federal News Radio on the role of the Chief Technology Officer. Here are some key points: 1. The CTO is a subject ...
February 8, 2009
Change Agents--Poisoned or promoted?
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Let’s fantasize for a moment about what it must be like to be an enterprise architect/change agent. Here we go. Our stereotypical organi...
February 7, 2009
The Perilous Pitfalls of Unconscious Decision Making
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Every day as leaders, we are called upon to make decisions—some more important than others—but all having impacts on the organization and it...
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