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Our favorite links for June 6 2010

by Eric D. Brown on June 6, 2010

A sampling of links from this past week we thought you’d find interesting.

CIO’s – What’s your focus

by Eric D. Brown June 3, 2010

Tweet Back in December, I asked a question to my readers. The question was “What’s your focus?” and immediately after publishing the post, I read a great post titled “The HR Professional – Chasing two Rabbits” over on Fistful of Talent that basically asks the same question. In the article, the author points out an [...]

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Our favorite links for May 30 2010

by Eric D. Brown May 30, 2010

Tweet A sampling of links from this past week we thought you’d find interesting.

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The Future of IT and the CIO

by Eric D. Brown May 27, 2010

Tweet This post is a re-publishing of ”The Future of IT and the CIO” from EricBrown.com A few months ago, I asked a question on LinkedIn about the role of the CIO (read the original question & responses): Will the CIO role change in the next 5 years? If so, how…and why? Quite a few [...]

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Three Simple Steps to Improve Communication in Your Organization

by Gene De Libero May 18, 2010

Tweet Communication is a great tool. It helps you build relationships and get things done. But I’m seeing some issues in a number of the companies I’m working with that’s very disturbing. I’m talking about a serious lack of face-to-face interaction and communication. There are people sitting in the same general vicinity who use IM [...]

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Our Favorite Links for May 16 2010

by Eric D. Brown May 16, 2010

Tweet A sampling of links from this past week we thought you’d find interesting.

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Mind the Gap between Strategy & Tactics

by Eric D. Brown May 11, 2010

Tweet This post was originally published on Ericbrown.com under the title of Minding the Gap between Strategy and Tactics – The New CIO Series. I’ve seen many strategic plans for organizations. A few of these plans have sections for Technology Strategy while some don’t mention technology at all. While these strategic plans are nice and thick, have [...]

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IT jobs moving out of IT?

by Eric D. Brown May 4, 2010

Tweet According to a recent research report released by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), and reported on by CIO Insight, jobs that are currently seen as IT Jobs will be moving to other parts of the organization. The report has some very interesting numbers….here’s a sampling from the CIO Insight slideshow: Less than 25% of [...]

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