Posts Tagged 'competition'

Echolalia: The CIO is Dead! Long Live the CIO!

 Vince Kellen | Apr 7, 2010  4 Responses
Apr 072010
 
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It has been painful to watch the perennial angst of the CIO community. Each year, each conference, and each industry rag frets about what ails the CIO and what kind of CIO the CIO will need to be in the future. When viewed as a whole, the CIO community is paranoid and schizophrenic. Not only do we hear multiple conflicting voices in our collective heads, we have a sense that the future we created is out to get us. Here at Cutter Consortium, we tackled this issue of the future of the CIO with some thought provoking and wildly different perspectives, ranging from the CIO is dead meat to a new kind of CIO is …

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Is overconfidence a necessary part of IT?

 Vince Kellen | Feb 28, 2010  3 Responses
Feb 282010
 
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“I don’t hire older CIOs. I like them young.” So barked an experienced and grizzled CEO in a conversation we had a decade ago. Why? Because they don’t know any better, he said. They overestimate their abilities, underestimate the problem, but work hard enough and are smart enough to pull it off. I hope I don’t work for him, I distinctly remember thinking. While overconfidence continues to be a consistent problem in IT, so does too much experience. Those experienced IT folks who may sandbag their estimates (partially out of painful memories from prior battles, partially out of CYA self-protection) constantly run into technology neophytes and amateurs who are deeply convinced that they can move …

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Attack! Attack! Attack! IT Strategies for a Down Market

 Vince Kellen | Sep 17, 2008  3 Responses
Sep 172008
 
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I just can’t wait to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth. The housing bubble bursts. The highly interconnected U.S. economy, overly dependent on overstated home values, buckles at the knees and is taking a standing eight-count. Stock prices are falling. Confidence in the market is waning. Global markets are impacted. Time to batten down the hatches, stuff the money in the mattress, eat macaroni and cheese at home versus at the Macaroni Grill and otherwise cut back on the extras. The borrowed-to-the-hilt spending spree is over. Americans have run out of money they don’t really have to buy stuff they probably don’t need. Company earnings forecasts, so dependent on this consumer economy, are likely …

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