Thoughts on Technology Accelerators
One of my blog's visitors asked me some questions about technology accelerators as described in Good to Great, and she said it would be ok if I posted the response here as well.If technology cannot...
View ArticleAdd Value to your Business by Understanding the Business
The new issue of Systems Management News is out with my latest column. In this month's column, I talk about adding value to your organization by building better understanding of your organization and...
View ArticleThe Savvy Manager
This is a column I wrote for Systems Management News that I am reposting here.Being a manager in IT is an challenging and often thankless job, but there are steps that we can take to make things...
View ArticleCompetitive advantage from IT
Andrew McAfee is a professor at the Harvard Business School, and he writes some interesting things in his blog about his research and thoughts on the new dynamics of the enterprise. In his latest blog...
View ArticleIT@Illinois kicks off
Yesterday was the kick-off of the IT@Illinois project to envision the future of IT at the Urbana-Champaign campus of University of Illinois. Going into the day, we knew a little of what Sally Jackson,...
View ArticleCentral IT, governance, and shifting the stack
This post is going to be somewhat of an open response to Ingbert's comment to my post on the IT@Illinois launch, and it will segue a bit into talking a bit about some aspects of a concept I've been...
View ArticleState of the IT@Illinois
Last Friday was an interesting point in the IT@Illinois discussion. Together with Craig Jackson, Chuck Thompson, Dan Jacobsohn, and Kelly Bridgewater, we organized the Friday morning caffeine break to...
View ArticleAnyone can be replaced, but how do you make yourself less so?
You need to make yourself as valuable as possible to your employer in any job market, but especially a market like the current one where there are lots of people eager to have a job. Being good...
View ArticleRationally diffuse: Centralization doesn't matter
In a recent discussion of the progress of IT@Illinois and comparing it to "rationalization" efforts at some of our CIC peers, the group felt that we have found the way to do IT "right" for a large...
View ArticleRationally diffuse: Aggregating from the right perspective
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how centralization (or decentralization) doesn't matter, about doing the right things at the right places. With some further discussions and feedback, I wanted to...
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