February 29th, 2012
Among the questions that I wanted to ask CIO’s for my CIO’s at Work book, one was fairly obvious: I wanted to know what gave them nightmares, what kept them awake at night. I could easily imagine every CIO giving me a list of ten or twenty; indeed, you could easily get the impression that [...]
February 20th, 2012
About a year ago, I started working on a book that was recently published with the title CIO’s at Work. My plan was fairly straightforward: track down the Chief Information Officer in several companies in various industries, and see what they thought was important. Since I’ve been working in the IT field for over 45 [...]
July 11th, 2010
Imagine that I’m the “confessor priest” in an IT project confessional environment, and a troubled project manager walks into my office, and tells me that in a fit of rage, he has just shot an obnoxious, uncooperative, unproductive members of his project team — point blank, right between the eyes. What should I do? Or [...]
June 20th, 2010
I spent most of last week in Boston, attending the annual Enterprise 2.0 conference. This is the second or third E2.0 conference I’ve attended here (they begin to blur after a while), and it was generally a productive experience. But for the sake of posterity, here are a few other details: The blatant sales pitch [...]
June 5th, 2010
The great anthropologist Margaret Mead popularized the terms postfigurative, cofigurative, and prefigurative — and it’s something we need to be aware of if we want to anticipate the impact of future IT technology. (See Mead’s Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap for more details.) A postfigurative culture is one in which things don’t [...]
June 4th, 2010
To anticipate the social impact of future IT, it would help to be an expert sociologist with a perfect crystal ball. I don’t have such expertise, so I’ll restrict my comments to specific areas where I think I have some vague idea of what I’m talking about … and aside from that, I’ll simply recommend [...]
June 3rd, 2010
The last several postings in this blog thread have focused on the future of IT from a technical perspective. For those of us who work in the IT industry, this is no surprise: there’s no question that we want to use the new “stuff” as soon as it’s available, and the main questions are simply [...]
May 23rd, 2010
I just finished presenting a two-day seminar on “Enterprise 2.0” in Rome on May 19-21, 2010. You can download the 57.3-megabyte PDF file by clicking on the link above, or the image below, or by viewing/downloading the presentation from my Slideshare page. A few of the slides may seem rather cryptic and mysterious, but if [...]
December 4th, 2009
I’m here in Rome this week, participating in a conference on “Enterprise 2.0” for Technology Transfer Institute. You should be there so you can hear the presentations from all of the speakers, as well as the comments and questions from the participants. But if you’re stuck in some other part of the world, or you couldn’t [...]
May 6th, 2009
I’ve updated the seminar on “Enterprise 2.0” that I presented in Rome on May 4-5, 2009. You can download the 54.921-megabyte PDF file by clicking on the link above, or you can view/download it on my Slideshare page; a few of the slides (and updates) will seem rather cryptic and mysterious, but if you actually [...]
