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The Consumerization of Management, Part 2

A prior post, describes the forces shaping the consumerization of management and driving a connected, open, information and innovation intensive workplace.  Those qualities go beyond traditional...

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Consumerization compliments and completes the other forms of management

The modern organization is a complex adaptive system.  We have managed that complexity through different combinations of organizational decomposition, process standardization and functional...

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The signs of weak management

Here is a prior post that generated significant comments to enjoy during the summer hiatus. I may get in trouble for this but here are some personal observations about management going on in companies....

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Enlightening Management requires moving back through the metaphysical to get...

In an earlier post, I called for IT Enlightenment rather than an IT Renaissance.  Going back to classical roots, a rebirth is not feasible given the evolving nature and capacity of technology.  Rather...

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Laboring together is not the same as creating together

We need a new definition of collaboration because the one we all understand, the one supported by workflow technologies is not what we often mean. It is time to say collaboration when you mean working...

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Hacking Management: Final Report for the Gartner/MIX Hackathon

In March of this year Polly Labarre from the Management Innovation Xchange (MIX) opened the Gartner EXP / Management Innovation Lab Hackathon at the Phoenix CIO Leadership Forum.  Gartner and Gary...

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Effective alignment requires more than process and plans, it demands...

Business and IT alignment is a perennial issues facing executives.  It is one of reasons for misunderstandings, inefficiencies and frankly recriminations between technologists and business...

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What I learned from CIOs at the Gold Coast Australia Symposium

The seventh and final Gartner Symposium ITXpo completed this week at Gold Coast, Australia.   This completes a set of posts related to prior events in Tokyo, Goa, Orlando, Sao Paulo, Barcelona and now...

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Artist and businessperson – a model for the 21st century executives, leaders,...

The other day I watched “The History of the Eagles Part 1 & 2”  a documentary on the Eagles, you know the band that brought is Life in the Fast Lane, Hotel California, and the Long Run, among other...

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Executives need digitally different thinking

Digital technology is on the mind of every executive from Sales and Marketing to IT and Operations.    Executives concentrate many of these thoughts center around issues of responsibility, authority...

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