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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>
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		<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>
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		<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>To Tweet or not to Tweet, this is NOT a CIO question</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/05/06/to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet-this-is-not-a-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 22:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#34;12 CIOs who Tweet&#34;. The most recently one is from fellow CIO blogger George Tomko with his post &#34;Why CIO are not using Twitter?&#34; in which George [...]


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		<title>A Darwinian View of a Successful IT Organization</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-it.com/2009/04/22/a-darwinian-view-of-a-successful-it-organization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fortnight ago, I submitted a post called &#34;3 steps to a successful CIO&#34; in which I surmised that his/her journey from&#160;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 [...]


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		<title>3 Steps to a Successful CIO</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]


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		<title>A new tag line</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look at the headline of The CIO Assistant&#8217;s Blog, you will see the new tag line &#8220;Helping IT Leaders Optimize, Align and Grow&#8221;. 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 [...]


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