Development Managers: To Code or Not to Code

by Gene De Libero April 22, 2010

I’ve run into this question on a number of occasions and have seen some pretty hotly debated conversations on the topic. Should development managers be expected to write code as part of their job? My feeling is that the manager is in place to manage, not to develop. In smaller companies, it might be fine [...]

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CIO’s: Lead or Lose

by Eric D. Brown April 19, 2010

Pam Baker published a great article titled “IT Leadership is Crucial to CIO Survival” on CIOUpdate.com. The main purpose of the article is to carefully slap every CIO and IT leader in the face to ensure that we all understand that its no longer enough to do a ‘good job’. The CIO’s that survives over [...]

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Our Favorite Links for April 18, 2010

by Gene De Libero April 18, 2010

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

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What Kind of Tech User Are You?

by Gene De Libero April 15, 2010

Pew Internet has a neat little online test to “…allow you to place yourself in one of the categories in the Pew Internet Project’s Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users.” Check it out and see what group you’re part of (I’m a Digital Collaborator).

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Organization’s & IT Smarts – Valuedance Survey Results

by Eric D. Brown April 12, 2010

Susan Cramm reports on some interesting survey results in an article titled “What IT, Business Really Think of Each Other” on CIO Insight. The survey was conducted by Cramm via her consulting company Valuedance with support from Harvard Business Review provides some interesting results worth reviewing and contemplating. The main outcome of the survey, as [...]

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Our Favorite Links for April 11, 2010

by Gene De Libero April 11, 2010

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

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Should the CEO stay out of technology?

by Eric D. Brown April 8, 2010

George Colony (CEO of Forrester) offers some interesting insight he gained during a private dinner with 15 Chief Information Officer’s during the recent Forrester IT Forum in a post titled “CIO’s to CEO’s: Stay out of Tech“. During this meeting, Colony and his team asked the CIO’s the following question: How do you raise the [...]

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“Information Technology Leaders and Their Teams Don’t Get It”

by Gene De Libero April 5, 2010

Without fail, at least once a week I hear someone who is not in an Information Technology role complain that the IT people they work with (or worse yet, have hired) don’t “get it”. When I ask what they mean by that, they tell me that the IT people they deal with are uncooperative, obstructionists, [...]

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Our Favorite Links for April 4 2010

by Eric D. Brown April 4, 2010

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

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Internet Technology, Media & Convergence

by Gene De Libero April 1, 2010

The passion I had for the marriage of media and technology in the mid-80′s when I created one of the first online social networks is still with me today. I’m almost giddy when I see my 12-year-old digital native at home using his iTouch to study for an upcoming school exam. And I get a [...]

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