I had to laugh at the headline from Manufacturing Business Technology:
Focus on Innovation: HP expects restructured labs to produce fewer, more successful projects
MBT went on to say, in an almost sad way, that HP consolidated its research to focus on 20 to 30 large research projects from about 150, with, lo and behold, a strategy […]
The Google way involves many approaches and policies that release innovation. Miki at Leadership Turn sparked my innovative synapses with her post. I focused on one item in my last post: letting people do what they want for 20% of the time. Brilliant! The second item that caught my attention was NOT managing but rather […]
Miki at Leadership Turn deals with innovation the Google way. It’s a great read- take a look. I’d like to focus on a couple of things that she brought up:
1. Google’s allowing people to work on their own ideas 20% of the time as long as they track what they are doing.
2. The idea of […]
CIO Insight’s article on CIOs who take on more roles in the business brings up many issues to ponder. One of them is a potential career path beyond CIO that might be facilitated by a willingness to add roles and responsibilities to a CIO’s portfolio. The story of Beth Perlman, CIO of Constellation Energy, is […]
CIO Insight’s great reporting uncovered another trend related to CIOs expanding their roles. Forrestor’s Alex Cullen commented on how CIOs might fit into other parts of the organization:
“We see the broader role more and more in areas like real estate management,” he says. “CIOs make really good chief operating officers for other parts of the […]
Continuing my summation of comments related to the post “IN SEARCH OF: Business Processes Supporting Strategy Execution and Innovation“, I reveal my discussion with Cullen Coates. Once again, I encourage you to read all the comments at the post- they reveal a desire by all parties to learn and understand each other.
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Mr. Coates: Basically I […]
My post titled “IN SEARCH OF: Business Processes Supporting Strategy Execution and Innovation” continues to attract excellent practical comments by many including former CEO Cullen Coates. I encourage you to read the comments- they reveal a desire by all parties to learn and understand each other. Below are some of Mr. Coates’ remarks with emphasis […]
What good is analyzing trends? Well, first of all you can determine whether you agree with them. Then decide if they will impact you. If so, you need to figure out how to deal with them. The last few posts have done this type of analysis from an “every company” point of view, and here […]
My sum up to CIO Insight’s Top IT Trends in 2008 related to MANAGEMENT reveals a need to focus on centralizing non-IT executive control vs. expanding the CIO role, and cleaning up and innovatively using data already out there for decision-making.
The CIO Insight MANAGEMENT trends of 1. No downturn for CIO role, 2. CIO role […]
Continuing with MANAGEMENT trends in IT from CIO Insight’s Top IT Trends for 2008 , we now deal with graduate shortages, sources of innovation, and one of the most interesting and impactful trends toward Master Data Management:
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CIO Insight: IT grad shortage changes the face of IT- CIOs expect fewer young people to enter the […]
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