To Celebrate 500th Blog: Is Life a Serendipity

Life is like a Box of Chocolate with a Cup of Tea. Life is a mystery; life is a gift; life is a beauty, life is a hard journey with soft touch; life is a serendipity; some life are straight; others are curvilinear; but every life is special, unique, and precious; every life has god complexity in it and abstraction of universe; what’re those interesting life metaphors? And is life a metaphor for all things? 1.    Life...

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CIO as Chief Integration Officer: How to identify Building Blocks in an IT project?

A key foundation would be to approach the project from the perspective of being a business project, not an IT project.   CIO continually advocates - there are no IT projects, only business projects; and, there is no IT and business, we are all part of "the business". However, IT projects statistically have much higher failure rate than another type of business project due to the complex nature. Hence, in order to manage successful...

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EA as Communication Glue

Abstraction and agreement is the way forward, not elaboration and disagreement. Enterprise Architecture may be a skill in documenting what others know but the EA must learn where the architecture can help improve weaknesses and take advantage of organizational strengths. The methods and techniques used to document and manage the architecture are important but building understanding and communicating among the many functions becomes the most significant...

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CIO as Chief Improvement Officer

"Continual improvement" is IT mantra in digital era. The “I” in the CIO title is full of imagination; the "Chief Improvement Officer" is a right fit for the modern CIO role. CIOs need to have unique business insight, technological vision to understand the business not only from the inside-out viewpoint but through outside-in customer’s lens. With that knowledge, CIOs can drive innovation to improve the hard business process and...

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CIO’s Journey: From Crafing Strategy to Taking Roadmap

 IT roadmap is a playbook every IT executive should have or build whether requested or not.If the strategy is a“blue book” to envision the future of organization; then, the roadmap is more as a playbook to describe in detail upon how to get there. IT road map is a chronological plan designed to blaze a clear path for IT investments and to ensure that the company gains the set of capabilities, expressed in the form of architecture “blueprint”...

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CIO as Strategist: What’s in your Strategic Planning

IT strategy is satisfied just through the WHAT-HOW transitions from corporate strategy. The whole purpose of the strategy of any kind is to envision the future success, then figure out how to execute to that end. IT strategy should always be an integral component of corporate strategy. What would be a good content for IT strategic plan? Should CIOs simply develop IT plans to support existing business strategy or should they, in addition,...

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Process Analysis vs. Process Design vs. Process Modeling

 It's about execution! Making your processes do what they promise. BPM is at CIO’s priority agenda in many organizations. The advent of information technology enabled tools and suites for business process management has created a hot bed of activity in which standards are still evolving and the underlying technologies still maturing. Clarifying certain fundamental concept such as what’re differences between process analyses. vs. process...

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CIO as Chief Intelligence Officer: Dance with Big Data?

 It is putting the right person that knows how to lead (evangelize) the effort and bring the users to the information that will allow them to create the knowledge to change the way business is run. Information is life blood in modern businesses today; however, very few organizations reach such information maturity. What are the requirements to get the data dance? Are CIOs the best guys/gals to think, deploy and run Business Intelligence...

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