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<item><title>Ten Enemies of Innovation</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:58:53 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[: Innovation. Everyone wants it, but many companies consider it a &quot;nice to have&quot; rather than a &quot;must have&quot;. Few C-suite executives openly dismiss the effort employees make to do things better and improve upon products and services, but when it comes to putting plans in motion, sometimes the follow-through isn't there. The book &quot;Relentless Innovation: What Works, What Doesnt &amp;#8209; And What That Means For Your Business&quot; (McGraw-Hill Professional/available now), chronicles a &quot;usual suspects&quot; list of barriers for innovation. Author Jeffrey Phillips says problems could arise from poor planning, budgeting, scheduling or talent managing. Companies must embrace &quot;breakthrough&quot; practices as valued cornerstones of their corporate culture to overcome these obstacles. To make it all work, a perfect balance must be reached between innovation and the need to keep driving the internal operating model. Phillips leads the innovation consulting team for OVO Innovation, a consulting/training firm. For more about the book, click here. Here we look at what you want to avoid if you want to get the greatest ideas and innovations from your team.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Quiz: The Seven Most Disruptive Thinkers of All Time</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:13:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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 &quot;The Little Black Book of Innovation: How it Works, How to Do It&quot; (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.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>12 Books for the CIO's Winter Reading List </title>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:55:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If one of your New Years resolutions was to sharpen your business and leadership skills or to read more books, CIO Insights winter book guide can help you on both fronts. This collection of titles explores a broad range of key issues facing CIOs today, examining leadership trends, business agility, corporate and executive transparency and the ever-present mandate to innovate. If you add these to your “must read” list, you can find out why C-Suite executives have less influence than they like to think they have, or how you can use smarter social-media strategies to elevate your “e-profile”. Others discuss ways to maximize the effectiveness of todays business tools and how to manage projects from an enterprise perspective. Each offers insights and information that can be of value to the ambitious technology leader. For more information about each book included here, click on the link above the slide. And please note, all publication dates are subject to change.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>How to Get Your IT Teams to Collaborate Effectively</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:22:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Whether you're a CIO or an IT employee, Agile methods can help your team innovate and excel in a world in which data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics are becoming a more important part of the IT ecosystem. In the book, Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (Addison-Wesley Professional), author Ken Collier demonstrates how Agile thinking can fuel greater successes for teams that manage analytics development, using widely diverse skill sets to support the oversight of quickly growing data inventories. Team collaboration is essential to the process of devising winning strategies and solutions. Collier outlines best practices for effective team collaboration in his book, and these practices can be applied beyond the world of business intelligence and data warehousing. They can be applied to any IT project that requires team members working together and being creative. Collier is founder/president of KWC Technologies Inc., and is a senior consultant with the Cutter Consortium in the agile development/business intelligence practice areas. For more about the book, click here.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Summer Reading List: 11 Books to Recharge Your Leadership Skills</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:48:54 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Take advantage of the summer slow-down to fine tune your leadership skills with these 11 books. If theres a unifying theme here, its the need for CIOs and other senior tech managers to boost critical thinking skills – whether pursuing IT projects, developing an atmosphere of success in your departments or uncovering new strategies for recruiting talent. Some of these tomes will help you hone in on your hard skills, such as tech-service management, business-intelligence oversight and data-warehouse administration. Others titles hit on growth areas that have very little to do directly with IT – such as your ability to cultivate trust, innovate and ask good questions -- yet are crucial to your overall career and management growth. Links to find out more information about the books are included on each slide. Keep in mind that publishing dates are always subject to change. We've highlighted these 11 books as a way to pump up your CIO IQ and inner leadership power during the summer months:   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>How To Take Charge of Project Management</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:35:46 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Here are five steps you can take to develop your project management structure, plus four keys to creating a sound budget estimate, and five tips for building the right team.   -  Effective project management is an essential career skill for any CIO. Whether it's overseeing an IT project for internal or external customers, you must demonstrate more than “tech skills.” 
You must oversee a wide variety of factors that determine a project's success or failure: budget, scope, de...]]></description>
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<item><title>How to Present The IT Story</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:03:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[You've been called upon to make a major presentation to your organization. Your job is to &quot;sell&quot; the audience on your latest IT initiative. Now what? Use these eight tips to tell your IT story in a way that engages and motivates your audience.   -  We feel your pain. You need to make a major presentation to your organization – which includes everyone from your CEO to the CFO to the rank-and-file in all departments – to “sell” the audience on an IT initiative. Or, perhaps you've been called to present to your board of directors for the first ti...]]></description>
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<item><title>How to Manage Agile IT Teams</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:32:41 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Agile development is considered a methodology by which solutions are produced through collaboration among self-organizing and multi-functional teams, according to commonly referenced definitions. However, within too many organizations, a lack of effective management of these teams is the biggest obstacle to successful agile development, according to the book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders  (Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional/Available now). Author Jurgen Appelo, a leading agile manager/expert, contends that in order to succeed, today's organizations must perform as living, networked systems. The secret, he says, is to primarily focus on people and relationships, as opposed to technology. The book provides an insightful examination of the essence of agile development, as well as takeaway steps for managers to consider in overseeing such teams. Appelo recently served as CIO of ISM eCompany, one of the Netherlands' largest e-business solution providers. He also produces one of Europe's top agile development blogs. Here are 10 fundamental qualities needed to manage agile IT teams.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Managing Today's Mobile Professionals</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:49:26 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[They may be your hospital workers tending to patients from room to room. Or, your sales executives meeting clients in multiple time zones throughout the week. Or, your modern IT employees, taking red-eye flights for organizations that are constantly expanding to new, global markets. These are just some of the professionals who make up the modern, mobile workforce. And CIOs and other senior executives must seek to embrace and accommodate their unique needs, according to the book  Managing the Mobile Workforce: Leading, Building, and Sustaining Virtual Teams  (McGraw-Hill Professional/Available now). In the book, authors David Clemons and Michael Kroth tap upon interviews conducted with top managers from companies such as Deloitte LLP, HP, Citrix and Samsung to come up with best practices for the oversight of these employees. It reveals how significantly the “rules have changed” in the 21st century, and why trust is the glue that binds managers and workers together – regardless of geographical distance. Clemons is CEO of Achieve Labs Inc. Kroth is an assistant professor at the University of Idaho in adult/organizational learning and leadership. Here are selected highlights:   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Building Business Architecture: Sensible Steps for CIOs</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:04:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In this era of globalization, merger/acquisitions and rapid market shifts, organizations are growing increasingly complex. A host of factors – multiple time zones, unique regional/office cultures, perceived differences in missions among departments – can create a corporate version of the Tower of Babel. As a result, executives and employees may have difficulty comprehending where and how all the various “parts” fit into a cohesive vision. In the book Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation  (Meghan-Kiffer Press/available now), authors William Ulrich and Neal McWhorter explain how CIOs and other leaders can proactively launch a well-planned series of steps to provide greater clarity of their organizations' past and present to guide team members toward a unified future. The essential premise of a business-architecture initiative is that it does not fade away with the passage of time. Instead, companies must ensure that business-architecture practices remain constantly applied to emerge as a permanent, valued dynamic of the corporate culture. Ulrich is president of TSG Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in business and IT alignment. McWhorter is a principal with Enterprise Agility, a company that seeks to help organizations improve their abilities to deliver new business capabilities. They are also co-founders of the Business Architecture Guild and co-chair the OMG Business Architecture Special Interest Group.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Fall Reading List: Books to Boost Your CIO IQ</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:52:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Are you having difficulty dodging the political (and personal) &quot;landmines&quot; that exist in every corporate culture? Do you need to brush up on your negotiating skills so you can ensure C-level sign-off on the tech initiatives that you know will benefit your organization? Are you a CIO who must manage a scattered mobile IT team? If so, our baker's dozen fall 2010 reading list can help. A number of books from highly respected authors address these and other essential career topics, and they're hitting the shelves in fall 2010. Some are already for sale, others are due out later in the year. (We've provided the publication dates for you.) There's an array of topic points -- from virtual-technology tools to cloud computing to software development to the absurdities of &quot;management-speak&quot; -- that can meet all your leadership, strategy and tech needs.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Why Good Innovation Goes Bad</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:04:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ironically, at this economic turning point, when companies need innovation more than ever to survive, too many lack the infrastructure to do so. While creativity may be there, these organizations are simply not structured to execute on innovative ideas. In the new book, The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge  (Harvard Business Review Press/September 2010), co-authors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble provide a blueprint to execute on innovation within existing infrastructures. They liken innovation to ascending to the top of Mount Rainier: Too many climbers focus all their energy on getting to the peak, leaving few resources for the less glamorous but equally dangerous descent. Similarly, organizations focus too much energy on brainstorming and not enough on effective execution of a winning idea. And so, good innovation goes bad.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Books To Boost Your CIO IQ</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:42:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Looking for a &quot;CIO edge”? How about tips to tune up your team management skills? Add these popular titles to your summer reading list, and get ready for a noteworthy collection of new releases on the way this fall. You'll gain management secrets and IT insight about a wide range of timely topics.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>20 Spring Books for IT Pros</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:25:03 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Our quarterly picks for the best books of the season to help IT leaders (and aspiring IT leaders) learn more about the business, manage and motivate staff, and plan and execute their strategies.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Analytics at Work: Utilizing Analysts</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:35:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In their new book, Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris explain how businesses can effectively utilize and deploy analytical experts to further their business intelligence/analytics mission.   -  Babson College professor Tom Davenport admits that analytics is a “nerdy” topic, but its also one of the hottest in the IT community today. In the follow-up to 2007s Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, he and co-author Jeanne Harris, an executive research fellow at Accentures Institu...]]></description>
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