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		<title>Letter to an aspiring IT Leader &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/08/17/letter-to-an-aspiring-it-leader-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the challenges or obstacles facing a person in quest of success in the workplace? Sometimes, a seemingly simple and straightforward question like&#160;this would lead to a deep, philosophical thought on&#160;the subject of emotional and spriritual intelligence.
In the recent posts, I have&#160;told the story of a young IT manager seeking the secrets of a [...]


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		<title>Letter to an aspiring IT Leader &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post, I told the story of a young IT manager seeking the secrets of a successful IT&#160;Leader. His to-the-point question &#34;What does it take &#8230;?&#34; has given rise to my pondering about the common association of success with titles and positions in the organization. In this Part 2, I will share with [...]


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		<title>Letter to an aspiring IT Leader</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/08/10/letter-to-an-aspiring-it-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s appropriate to start the new Tao of IT blog with something not CIO-related, at least not as&#160;directly as I have been writing so far in the former CIO&#160;Assistant&#8217;s Blog. The subject touches on the Leadership question but from a perspective of a young IT manager in search of fame and success in [...]


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		<title>Business-IT Alignment, An Enlightened Tale</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/07/15/business-it-alignment-an-enlightened-tale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer, Coca-Cola launches a new product. No, it&#8217;s not another new Coke to compete or cannibalize the Coke &#34;Classic&#34;. It&#8217;s a Coke vending machine. It&#8217;s called the Freestyle.
 

So what&#8217;s exciting about that? According to Coca-Cola press release it&#8217;s the &#34;next generation fountain beverage dispenser&#34;. What is remarkable is that it represents a rare [...]


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		<title>Business-IT Alignment, A Twisted Tale</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/07/08/business-it-alignment-a-twisted-tale/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/07/08/business-it-alignment-a-twisted-tale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently attracted to a discussion on LinkedIn&#8217;s CIO Network Forum started by Mark Chillingworth, Editor at IDG Communications. He referred to a CIO-UK article entitled &#34;IT-business alignment is still on the CIO agenda&#34;, with the sub-title &#34;Align with the IT, not the other way around&#34; and the following teaser:
The debate is switching, the [...]


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		<title>Business-IT, Aligned?</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/06/29/business-it-aligned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third post in the recent series on Business-IT Alignment where the issue is examined from both sides of the coin so to speak. The objective is to demonstrate that Business-IT Alignment is possible if there is a level playing field where both Business and IT are accountable for their action, not just [...]


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		<title>Which IT Needs Business Alignment?</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/06/22/which-it-needs-business-alignment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I asked the question: &#34;What Business Would IT Align To?&#34;&#160;to highlight the fact that Business is a generic term used indiscriminately for different entities in different contexts. So when a divisional head was not happy with the services provided by the central IT group, it could be called a Business-IT mis-alignment. [...]


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		<title>What Business Would IT Align To?</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/06/17/what-business-would-it-align-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a quote extracted from an interview by CIO Insight with Holly Morris, CIO at Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (a faith-based, non-profit insurance provider) in the May 2009 issue:
&#34;It&#8217;s more a Zen state of mind that you have to constantly be changing and morphing along with the business.&#34; 
I like this quote very much [...]


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		<title>The Quiet Force of IT</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/06/15/the-quiet-force-of-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The mass of IT Leaders lead a corporate life of quiet frustration.&#34;&#160;
This was the thought that crossed my mind when I read recent press articles on the CIO crisis. This quote is a paraphrase of Henri David Thoreau who has said &#34;The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation&#34; more than 150 years ago [...]


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		<title>CIO: How Do You Stay Relevant to Business? &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/06/09/cio-how-do-you-stay-relevant-to-business-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third and final post in the series on Staying Relevant to Business. In this post, I&#160;will review the types of competency that a CIO needs to develop to ensure predictable IT successes hence positive business perception.
In Part 1, I have highlighted the renewed threat to the survival of the CIO role (and [...]


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