Recently, there is a flurry of news articles and blog posts about Lean and IT. Forrester sent out an invitation for its upcoming Business & Technology Leadership Forum (October 8-9, 2009) entitled "Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative". Glenn Whitfield pondered about "Do Lean or Be Lean?" in Lean & IT and Chris Curran proposed 2 Lean schemes (Quick [...]

 

 

 

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 – Alignment – Growth. Knowing the timing will avoid unnecessary effort and wasted energy. This time of economic recession is the right time for Optimization. You know [...]

 

 

 

There are recently a host of posts inquiring about whether the CIOs of the world are joining the social media bandwagon or not. One is from NetworkWorld with "12 CIOs who Tweet". The most recently one is from fellow CIO blogger George Tomko with his post "Why CIO are not using Twitter?" in which George [...]

 

 

 

A fortnight ago, I submitted a post called "3 steps to a successful CIO" in which I surmised that his/her journey from the geek kingdom to the boardroom would follow a Darwinian evolution. This follow-up post will expand on that theme by suggesting that this journey cannot skip over any step but could be accelerated through [...]

 

 

 

More than any other corporate executives, the CIO is the one who constantly struggles with his/her identity. Nobody ever questions the roles of a CEO, a COO or a CFO (except when there is an internecine power play among them). Other Chief Officer types are more of a label of convenience than true members of [...]

 

 

 

If you look at the headline of The CIO Assistant’s Blog, you will see the new tag line “Helping IT Leaders Optimize, Align and Grow”. I will expand on this theme in upcoming posts. Suffice to say that I strongly believe that if you, as an IT Leader, put these 3 notions into action, you [...]