CIO Blogs

The Broken Promise of Disintermediation

Disintermediation was celebrated as the biggest gift of the internet. Did it turn out to be all that it was made out to be? One

January 4, 2007

Enterprise Architecture Tools: Is a Fool with a Tool Still a Fool?

Enterprise Architecture tools abound. Are tools really neccessary to the objective of asset optimization? Like children and toys, IT professionals and tools are inseparable. Let’s

January 4, 2007

The Relationship Between IT Governance and IT Strategy

IT Governance and IT Strategy are related processes. However, each has a distinct role in business value creation. Confuse them and lose business value. There

January 4, 2007

Scapegoating the CIO

This is not exactly the role you wanted but someone’s gotta do it. IT Strategy is like a nose. Everybody needs one. But does every

January 4, 2007

Build once; use many times

Easy to say but hard to do. So what else is new in the world of IT? Build once and use many times. The mantra

January 4, 2007

eMarketing: The dawn of a new advertising model?

Facebook has introduced a new advertising model to suit its social networking genre. Is this model right for you? In general, I could not care

January 4, 2007

Society and Governance

Does good governance have anything to do with our society? This and other rhetorical questions were answered. All of a sudden, everybody thinks they are

January 4, 2007

Employee Retention: Show Me the Training

Ever wonder why employees leave? You are reason number one. Then there are others. When it comes to staff retention our attention invariably focuses on

January 4, 2007