Fresh Approach to IT Leadership Competencies

Last week, my colleage, Vaughan Merlyn ,asked me to join him on a post for his blog.  Below is the results of that collaborative work.  It builds on a piece of research we did last year called: ITC: Tomorrows Essential IT Competencies.  While the research was focused on the IT function specifically, the insights can be applied [...]

The Next Generation Enterprise: Creating the Agile Organization

Naisbitt begins his book, Mindset!, by saying that the future is always with us . . . social media acts as our collaborator, offering stories, facts, and opinions.  But it’s not just the information that’s important.  It’s the sifting process . . . the way in which we select and verify that allows us to bring [...]

The List: Provocative Ideas for Talent Management

In point of fact, we are no strangers to tough talent issues having survived many of the business challenges of the last several decades.  But balencing the demands of the business with a ready flexible pool of talent given the demographic changes, will require an increasingly sophisticated set of solutions that many companies have not [...]