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Avatar – Blending “Hi Tech/Hi Touch”
Way back in 1982, futurist John Naisbitt authored the fascinating book Megatrends. I especially recall my reaction to one of the trends – High tech, high touch – and the need to balance between...
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“Branding” Your IT Organization
I love this post on Attraction of Identity from my kindred spirit, Russ Aebig. (And not just because he references my work on Business-IT Maturity!) Russ poses the question: As an organization, who...
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Design Thinking 2.0: How Web 2.0 Might Foster and Enable an Innovation...
About 3 years ago I first become aware of what can best be called a ‘movement’ dedicated to “Design Thinking,” when the term started showing up in some of my favorite blogs (e.g., Idris Mootee’s...
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Design Thinking 2.0: Enabling Innovation with Web 2.0 – Part 2
In my first post in this series, “Design Thinking 2.0: How Web 2.0 Might Foster and Enable an Innovation Revolution” I summarized the concepts of Design Thinking and raised the question of how Web 2.0...
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Innovation and Web 2.0 – A Compelling Relationship?
I had a very interesting and exciting week! I was a speaker at an nGenera Senior Executive Summit, which drew about 60 top executives from mostly large companies – CEO’s, CIO’s, CFO’s, HR and shared...
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Business-IT Alignment – The Relationship Dimension
Much has been written about “Business-IT Alignment” over the years. Alignment can refer to Strategy – the degree to which IT strategy and business strategy are aligned. (This, of course, is both ‘old...
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Influcencing Change In Your IT Operating Model
My last post, “Business-IT alignment – The Relationship Dimension” drew some interesting and even passionate commentary. In particular, one frustrated commenter (someone in a Relationship Management...
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Crowdsourcing Organizational Change: A Collaborative Approach to Leading Change
In the first post in this series, I provided some brief context for ‘change leadership’ (a term I find more apt than ‘change management.’) I also introduced a caveat about linear, sequential,...
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Back From My Sabbatical – with Lessons from Rock ‘n’ Roll!
Me with Joey Molland from the band Badfinger at the Cavern, Liverpool I’m pretty sure nobody noticed the fact that I was ‘off the air’ for about a month. And I’m certain that nobody cared! But I did...
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The “Six Month Rule” of Organizational Change – It’s All Personal!
It is said, “All politics is local.” Picking up on that aphorism, I think it is equally true that all change is personal. So Much Known – So Little Followed! There is a substantial body of research...
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