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You know that doing more with less has become par for the course as you rn your IT organization. And with increasing pressure from your C-Suite colleagues to help drive the business forward, you sometimes feel like your hands are tied. The book “Lean but Agile: Rethink Workforce Planning and Gain a True Competitive Edge” (Amacom/available now), can show you how -- with some careful planning and execution -- it is possible to create a lean, agile workforce that can meet your goals. According to authors William J. Rothwell, James Graber and Neil McCormick, maximizing personnel efficiencies doesn’t require you to get tough and single out employees. That leads to burnout and demoralized teams. Instead, CIOs and IT managers need to figure out what work needs to get done and hire employees with the skillsets that can get the job done. Rothwell is a professor of workplace learning and performance at Penn State. Graber is an organizational psychologist and managing director of Business Decisions Inc., a talent management and performance software company. McCormick is senior vice president for Talent2, an HR advisory and recruitment business. For more about the book, click here. Here are 10 highlights.
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Worried investors have for months been calling on BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion to replace co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. On Jan. 22, 2012, the company has finally done so, appointing Thorsten Heins as RIM’s President and CEO . Heins joined RIM in 2007 from Siemens Communications Group. After a stint as senior vice president for hardware engineering, he became RIM’s chief operating officer for product and sales in August 2011. As with any other company that has a change in leadership, RIM will undergo a quiet period of sorts as its new chief executive assesses some of the things that might be wrong with the firm, and sets out to change that. The company faces a Jan. 31 deadline to report the findings of a review of its management structure, according to Bloomberg News, and Heins has said he’ll be seeking a new marketing chief for the company. Among the 75 million BlackBerry users are many enterprises that have made deep investments in RIM products, so it’s fair to say you’re probably wondering about the fate of the firm at this stage, and how the leadership changes will affect the company’s future. According to the Wall Street Journal, Heins assured industry analysts that he isn’t looking to sell the company. Yet, some industry analysts are making dire predictions about RIM’s fate , which largely hinges on the new BlackBerry 10 platform and future products featuring the QNX-based operating system. Until then, RIM is relying on a product line running BlackBerry OS 7 to retain customers; the upside, of course, is that IT administrators and others who manage BlackBerry devices for businesses have several months before RIM wholeheartedly embarks on major changes. Here’s what you need to know about Heins and the future of RIM.
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RIM's new CEO, Thorsten Heins, seems determined to keep the company along its preset path. Some analysts are arguing he needs to do something more radical.
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The giant chip maker appoints a new COO, CIO and executives to run its PC and data center groups.
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RIM has appointed a new CEO, Thorsten Heins. But the company's immediate goal remains the same: Release the next-generation BlackBerry 10. The upside for IT administrators and others who manage BlackBerry devices for businesses have several months before RIM wholeheartedly embarks on major changes.
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Do you believe that IT leadership is only applicable to those with formal responsibility to manage others? If so, then you've fallen prey to the three false and highly limiting beliefs about IT leadership. These three beliefs are held by IT pros on all rungs of the organizational ladder.
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In this week's installment of CIOs on the Move, we cover executive changes at seven organizations, including new IT leaders for Aviva North America, Bank of America and United Continental Holdings. Information is provided exclusively to CIO Insight by the researchers at DiscoverOrg.
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How much do you know about some of the greatest innovative thinkers of the ages? Take our quiz and try to identify seven of them, taken from "The Little Black Book of Innovation: How it Works, How to Do It" (Harvard Business Review Press/available now) Author Scott D. Anthony contends that all too often the potential for innovation is stifled by corporate culture and outright panic. “Large companies are capable of — and often do — amazing things,” he writes. “But these firms just scratch the surface. The talent of their people, the technologies in their labs ... (are) held back by a mix of fear and misunderstanding. Too many would-be beautiful businesses that could reinvent markets and create substantial value live only in PowerPoint documents, never to be launched.” To counter this, Anthony outlines his 28-day program for mastering the skill of innovation and deploying it to benefit your organization. For more about The Little Black Book, click here.
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The embattled former CEO resigns from the board of directors and is withdrawing from the boards of Yahoo Japan Corp. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
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Research In Motion is considering a new chairperson to replace Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie as co-chairmen, according to a report.
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Wishing you a 2012 filled with much professional dissatisfaction. Here’s why.
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A CIO turned CEO shares lessons learned as he climbed the C-Suite ladder.
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Rarely have IT and HR been led by the same individual. But similarities between these departments, combined with the need to think creatively about each, have caused some progressive companies to consider this combined role. Sheleen Quish is, perhaps, the most prominent example of this. After leading IT departments at Unitrin and U.S. Can, among other companies, she joined Ameristar Casinos as CIO in early 2007 and soon took added responsibility for the HR department. Here’s what she learned about managing this dual role.
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How Frank Wander, CIO of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, fosters an environment of trust, creativity, and productivity for his IT organization.
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Four of the 29 organizations in this week’s CIOs on the Move roundup are actively seeking IT leaders. Information is provided exclusively to CIO Insight by the researchers at DiscoverOrg.
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