Other CIO Bloggers
When I started writing it was in part because I couldn't find anyone else of my ilk blogging. That is, there were lots of people writing about CIO's or at CIO's but precious few who actually were CIO's writing for their peers.
Nice to find a few more this morning, thanks to Abbie Lundberg's post this morning at CIO.com.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Do you Bento? Mac OS X software
Anybody try out Bento from Filemaker? I downloaded it recently and played around with it but just couldn't get all that excited. To me, there's not much added value over just running the iCal, Mail and Address Book.
What I am in the market for is a better way to link my task manager (I use iGTD today) to a website so that I can track and manage tasks while at work. Any suggestions?
AND I recently installed Leopard. Piece of cake. About 45 minutes and I was done. A couple of apps needed to be updated to work properly but that's it. Not nearly the headache I had installing Windows Vista on one of my PCs. Though I do confess that the Vista upgrade was by far the easiest Windows upgrade I've ever done.
Anybody try out Bento from Filemaker? I downloaded it recently and played around with it but just couldn't get all that excited. To me, there's not much added value over just running the iCal, Mail and Address Book.
What I am in the market for is a better way to link my task manager (I use iGTD today) to a website so that I can track and manage tasks while at work. Any suggestions?
AND I recently installed Leopard. Piece of cake. About 45 minutes and I was done. A couple of apps needed to be updated to work properly but that's it. Not nearly the headache I had installing Windows Vista on one of my PCs. Though I do confess that the Vista upgrade was by far the easiest Windows upgrade I've ever done.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Seattle CIO Forum Part Deux!
We're very nearly ready to send out invites to the next CIO Forum in Seattle. The focus of this one is to explore what makes for good and not-so-good CIO-CFO relationships.
At least 50% of the CIO's job is to build and maintain excellent relationships with the peers in the executive ranks. It's been my experience that you can get all the others "right" but failing to build a strong working relationship with the CFO will at best hinder your ability to carry out the technology agenda. I've been fortunate to be able to work with some excellent CFO's over the years and built solid relationships that allowed for executing on the strategic initiatives needed by the business.
The date is January 23 at the Harbor Club in Seattle. My friends at Sierra Systems have agreed to pick up the tab and help with logistics, while avoiding any sales pitches. They're a class act and I couldn't pull this off without them!
Drop me a line if you are interested in joining us.
P.S. There's been interest expressed in hosting a similar forum in other cities. If that's something you'd like to discuss, let me know.
We're very nearly ready to send out invites to the next CIO Forum in Seattle. The focus of this one is to explore what makes for good and not-so-good CIO-CFO relationships.
At least 50% of the CIO's job is to build and maintain excellent relationships with the peers in the executive ranks. It's been my experience that you can get all the others "right" but failing to build a strong working relationship with the CFO will at best hinder your ability to carry out the technology agenda. I've been fortunate to be able to work with some excellent CFO's over the years and built solid relationships that allowed for executing on the strategic initiatives needed by the business.
The date is January 23 at the Harbor Club in Seattle. My friends at Sierra Systems have agreed to pick up the tab and help with logistics, while avoiding any sales pitches. They're a class act and I couldn't pull this off without them!
Drop me a line if you are interested in joining us.
P.S. There's been interest expressed in hosting a similar forum in other cities. If that's something you'd like to discuss, let me know.
Friday, December 07, 2007
Risk Management
I've started writing a post about this topic and thought I'd ask for input (anybody listening?). It's a subject I think gets far too little real consideration as we define, sell, manage projects.
What rules of thumb do you use? Tools?
One I've been thinking about adding to our tool box is the spider or radar chart (at right, from Managed Care Magazine). There are a number of dimensions to consider including customer/user tolerance for risk. Working with users to define in advance what the key dimensions are then mapping the proposed technology solution over the map can help clearly identify where we need to pay attention, build contingency plans, communicate with the user.
More to come but what's your take on this topic?
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