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Yesterday we quoted Laurie Orlov’s thoughts about how stuck in our ways we can become, especially if we’re institutional and hierarchy-based (or if our name is IT). Meanwhile Jon Husband has been reading Gary Hamel on the future of management, and comes away impressed, offering some summary conclusions that may tie in with that sense of ...

As the talk in last week’s videocast interview between Robert Scoble and Jackie Bassett progressed, it turned inevitably to the subject of blogging, social media, Web 2.0 – as all enterprise technology discussions must turn nowadays. Jackie said that at her latest CEO conference in October, out of all the subjects under discussion, 56 CEOs ...

Robert Scoble’s interview with Jackie Bassett last week zeroed in on the subject of CIOs and their disconnect from CEO thinking. Bassett offered her blueprint for how the CIO can take a true seat at the leadership table (with appropriate bonus packages). The 45-minute videocast deserves a transcription, and as promised yesterday we offer some ...

Most CIOs leave their companies after 18 months on the job, and more often than not they don’t jump, they’re pushed. On the other hand, there are twenty CIOs in this entire world who are so valuable to their companies that they make over $5 million per year. How do the other CIOs get to this exalted place at the corporate table? Jackie ...

Dovetail Software Blogs:  Simplified Business ''The thought of a simplified IT is a compelling idea. As we discussed yesterday, it helps to remember that business is often a very tangled and complicated thing, with a lot of legacy procedures that no one fully understands: things are done a certain way from a burden of history more than ...

In a technology world coming apart at the seams - that's a good thing by the way, and of course we mean decoupling in general - the question comes up, how big a culprit is IT itself in the complicated nature of enterprise evolution? Minimalist Andrew Clifford in his blog at ITtoolbox admits to multiple heresies, cheerfully, and can't help but ...