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The Monkey Economic Game for CIOs
Laurie Santos, in a recent remarkable TED Talks “A monkey economy as irrational as ours“, laid out two important biological bias in the way humans are making decision: a loss aversion and thinking in relative terms. To prove this theory she built from scratch a framework of the financial market and make it test by […]
CIO Inner Voice – The Top Posts
January 13, 2010
After 1 year of existence, CIO Inner Voice is publishing its top posts. Thank you for all your encouragements, comments and feedback. (…) THE GREAT PROJECT MANAGER SERIE – Several years ago, I have the chance to read Jim Collins’ book – “Good to Great” (G2G), that has changed the way I was approaching performance […]
The Dark Art of IT Investment
April 30, 2009
Companies have struggled during years with the allocation of their investments. Is 50% of them going to business infrastructure a good thing, should we not invest more in protecting our brand or increasing our operational efficiency? One of the underlying complexities is the relationship between level of investment and the expected value we get from […]
Integrate IT in the Company Investment Portfolio
April 24, 2009
Information technology alone does not create any value. The quality of its integration as a whole within the Enterprise’s strategy does. Considering the value of individual IT related projects could hinder the optimization of the overall investment allocation. To address this weakness, techniques such as Project Portfolio Management (PPM), have been introduced in IT for […]
Complementary Reading …
April 16, 2009
There is an interesting PWC article “The Next-Generation CIO” that I recommend in complement of one of my previous post “CIOs – Create your Blue Ocean Strategy“. I particulary enjoy the take on the “I” for CIO: Intelligence, Innovation, Integration, Insight, Instigation, Influence. The framework they provide in this article stresses the complexity of the […]
Is there such thing as IT Strategy anymore.
April 14, 2009
For decades now, companies have been trying to figure out what was the best IT strategy for their business. With the increasing demand of cost reduction, the large spread of service best practices (ITIL, CoBIT, CMMi, etc…), the development of strategic sourcing in IT, the consolidation of Enterprise Solution Vendors (Oracle, SAP, etc..) , we […]
Be curious about IT ….
April 2, 2009
To add-on on my previous post I found interesting articles on Gartner’s Blogs created by Mark Mc Donald: “12 things every business leaders you should know about IT“. Do not hesitate to share additional experiences.
Business Leaders – Be curious about IT, you won’t regret it
April 1, 2009
Improving the IT competency of business leaders should be a key objective for CIO. This post is part of a serie that intends to share key concepts of IT that are not always clearly understood by business leaders. Please share your thoughts. There are two words in “I.T.” Information & Technology :This association constitutes the […]
IT Governance – why should it be complex?
March 23, 2009
For several years now “Governance” has been a buzz word, used to point out any deficiency of communication and arbitration of IT investment. I suggest here a simple check list that anyone could use as a foundation to create an IT Governance Handbook. Objectives “IT Governance is the responsibility of executives and the board of […]
Practice of Earned Value Management
March 23, 2009
Ideal for presentation to senior management, here is a simple explanation of Earned Value Management along with a full case… For Free Enjoy…
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