Wednesday, June 22, 2011 12:49 PM/EST
By John Parkinson Think: Mashups rather than MIPs; Pandora Radio rather than Payroll; Google rather than General Ledger. These will shape what comes next. The forcing functions for innovation are no longer buried in corporate IT departments or the software labs of industry incumbents.
Thursday, June 09, 2011 3:31 PM/EST
By John Parkinson Can you build a successful, growing business, operating dynamically and at global scale on the "Outliers" model? Here's a (work in process) guide to the issues that you'd need to solve.
Friday, February 18, 2011 3:58 PM/EST
By Tony Kontzer With companies now accepting customer feedback via Facebook pages and monitoring Twitter posts about them, there's a lot of opportunity for decision-makers to over-react to a non-event.
Friday, February 04, 2011 10:18 AM/EST
By Tony Kontzer If I were a CIO, I'd be looking for ways to put The Law of 150 to work in my organization. Malcolm Gladwell presents a valid use case for the Law of 150 that's worth revisiting 10 years after his book The Tipping Point topped bestseller lists.
Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:04 AM/EST
By Tony Kontzer If Google's Larry Page is going to be the second coming of Apple's Steve Jobs--only without the part about having to rescue his company from near ruin--then someone's going to have to help Page exude the qualities implied by the "E" in his new, old title of CEO.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:20 AM/EST
By Tony Kontzer Should the CIO strive to develop a "cult of personality" within the organization?
Monday, December 13, 2010 11:12 AM/EST
By Tony Kontzer Whether you like Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's constant efforts to advance the cloud computing discussion or dismiss them as blustery salesmanship, there's no arguing that Benioff has become a huge force in the IT world.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:15 PM/EST
By Tony Kontzer This is a big topic. We're talking about expanding federal government access to everything from emails and text messages to social networking posts and peer-to-peer messaging networks.
Friday, August 27, 2010 2:28 PM/EST
By Tony Kontzer Continental Airlines' CIO shares lessons learned as he prepares his exit strategy.
Monday, June 14, 2010 10:51 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer Several months ago, I went out on a limb in predicting that Apple's iPad was a tweener device that didn't fill enough of a need to be an instrument of change. While I'm not prepared to give...