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	<title>Tao of IT - Leading and living wisely in the world of Information Technology &#187; Tao of Management</title>
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		<title>Knowledge is Information, transformed</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/09/28/knowledge-is-information-transformed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Information is &#34;Data, correlated&#34; then Knowledge is &#34;Information, transformed&#34;. The transformation from Information to Knowledge is an exercise of the brain that, once understood, could shed light on the elusive process of capturing the tacit knowledge of business and corporate smarts.
Information is not Knowledge
The former is interesting but only the latter is useful. You [...]


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		<title>The Fallacy of measuring Employee Engagement</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/09/16/the-fallacy-of-measuring-employee-engagement/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/09/16/the-fallacy-of-measuring-employee-engagement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been&#160;updating the&#160;Newly added Favorite Blog Posts &#38; Articles&#160;section in the What&#8217;s New On This Site column in the sidebar for a while now, but this is the first time that I feel the urge to write about one of them.&#160;The blog post in question is&#160;Engagement Soup by Bret&#160;L. Simmons&#160;in his&#160;own&#160;Blog by the same [...]


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		<title>Is Lean Equivalent to Optimized?</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/08/26/is-lean-equivalent-to-optimized/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/08/26/is-lean-equivalent-to-optimized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, there is a flurry of news articles and blog posts about Lean and IT. Forrester sent out an invitation for its upcoming Business &#38; Technology Leadership Forum (October 8-9, 2009)&#160;entitled &#34;Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative&#34;. Glenn Whitfield pondered about &#34;Do Lean or Be Lean?&#34; in&#160;Lean &#38;&#160;IT&#160;and Chris Curran proposed 2 Lean schemes (Quick [...]


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		<title>A Time to Optimize</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/08/24/a-time-to-optimize/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/08/24/a-time-to-optimize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a time for everything: a time to grow and a time to optimize. The evolution of business and its IT organization follows a cycle of Optimization &#8211; Alignment &#8211; Growth. Knowing the timing will avoid unnecessary effort and wasted energy. This time of economic recession is the right time for Optimization. You know [...]


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		<title>The Peril of Data-Driven Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/07/06/the-peril-of-data-driven-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/07/06/the-peril-of-data-driven-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I was looking for some books to read this mid-summer week-end. I ended up picking Travels, a book from Michael Crichton. Crichton, of Jurassic Park fame, was a highly readable author with many techno-thrillers on the best-seller list. I particularly like Timeline, a science-fiction novel about parallel worlds, so I thought [...]


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		<title>A Rule-of-3 Quote</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/06/23/a-rule-of-3-quote/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/06/23/a-rule-of-3-quote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An amazing quote:
&#34;Three levels of executives &#8211; CEO, CIO/CTO, and CEA [Chief Enterprise Architect]. Three bridges &#8211; inside/outside the organization, business/technology sides of the organization, and business process/information flows/technologies within. Three delivery mechanisms to stakeholders &#8211; one vision and organizational strategy, one technical strategy and execution, one architecture plan to deliver through technology.&#34;
I got to [...]


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		<title>100 Days to a Better Blog &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/04/29/100-days-to-a-better-blog-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/04/29/100-days-to-a-better-blog-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started this Blog on April 3, 2009. Not quite on an impulse but also not based on any rational reasoning (except perhaps for some fleeting thought that it should not be on April&#8217;s Fool day). According to my 100-day plan, I should conclude my Better Blog project on July 11, 2009, with April 15 [...]


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		<title>10 Steps to a Successful Blogging Project</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/04/28/10-steps-to-a-successful-blogging-project/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/04/28/10-steps-to-a-successful-blogging-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I have shared with you my participation in ProBlogger&#8217;s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog (31DBBB) project and how I have had a belated awakening that this is also MY Better Blog project and I should take control of it and execute it the way that I know, i.e. via [...]


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		<title>100 Days to a Better CIO Assistant Blog</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/04/27/100-days-to-a-better-cio-assistant-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/04/27/100-days-to-a-better-cio-assistant-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post doesn&#8217;t fit into the regular CIO Assistant stream. It&#8217;s about my personal experience in a blog building project called 31 Days to Build a Better Blog (31DBBB) from ProBlogger (Darren Rowse). While many of you have no interest to read about blogging in general and my blogging experience in particular, the key message [...]


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		<title>Rule of 3 in Action</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/04/20/rule-of-3-in-action/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/04/20/rule-of-3-in-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After writing the first&#160;post on Rule of 3 (the Rule)&#160;a few days ago, I realized that the article is too short and criptic for&#160;the readers to appreciate the power of the Rule. This post is a follow-up [in order]&#160;to illustrate how you can apply the Rule&#160;beneficially in several practical ways.
1. Use the Rule to consciously [...]


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