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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...

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Add 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...

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The 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...

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Competitive 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...

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IT@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,...

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Central 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...

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State 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...

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Anyone 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...

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Rationally 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...

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Rationally 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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