CQI vs. Innovation in IT: Catch 22
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in IT mandates that we implement standardized processes to ensure predictable execution and results and reduce error probabilities. Innovation on the other hand re...
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Making IT Shared Services Work
Some claim that while the IT shared services model looks good on paper, it's a nightmare to implement and doesn't produce the promised ROI. Is this true? What is the actual success rate of implementat...
29 Elo 200756min
IT Innovation: The Inspiration/Perspiration Balance
Innovation is the mainstay of sustainable competitive advantage and success in today's fast-changing world of business. However... can creativity in IT alter the conventional balance of 1% Inspiration...
22 Elo 200756min
The Emotionally Intelligent CIO
The stresses of rapidly changing business needs, globalization, and a need to create competitive advantage through IT are bringing out the best and worst traits in today's CIO while balancing work and...
15 Elo 200755min
Enterprise Virtualization: Making it a Reality
Organizations are aggressively moving forward to make their IT dynamic by introducing virtualization to their server, storage, application, and desktop environments. How are we planning for this? What...
8 Elo 200755min
Effective IT Audits and Auditors
How an IT audit is carried out and how we best leverage internal/external IT auditor(s) determines the fate of organizations facing compliance mandates today. An increasing number of compliance initia...
1 Elo 200758min
Complex Business Transformations: Can IT help?
Business transformations are inevitable in order to stay competitive. They bring along complexity and IT has to deal with that complexity after the game plan is in place. As a result, there is a high ...
18 Heinä 200757min
CIO Decision Making: Intuitive or Analytical?
CIO decision making today is based on extensive "due diligence" performed leveraging multiple information sources as well as tools that aid the process. Still, the results are less than stellar. Is it...
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