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State of the IT@Illinois - May 4, 2009
Central IT, governance, and shifting the stack - Feb 19, 2009
IT@Illinois kicks off - Dec 11, 2008
Competitive advantage from IT - Jul 24, 2008
iPhone Review: After 1 week - Jul 22, 2008
The Savvy Manager - Jul 20, 2008
Thoughts on Technology Accelerators - Jul 14, 2008
Does IT matter to higher education? - Jul 8, 2008
Friday Fun: Monkey Kick Off - Jun 25, 2008
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Review: Here Comes Everybody

After Sally Jackson mentioned Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody", I thought it would be a book that hit upon my interests. It did that and more. There have been a lot of books about leadership, and there have been a lot of books about the changes that the Internet has brought to society. Shirky's book really took the analysis and the thinking to the next level by examining how people have organized without having an organization. Through the use of multiple examples, he illustrates how society has been changing. It is especially effective how he finds examples of people who organized without paradigm changing technology and how they organized after a new technology came into use.

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State of the IT@Illinois

Last Friday was an interesting point in the IT@Illinois discussion. Together with Craig Jackson, Chuck Thompson, Dan Jacobsohn, and Kelly Bridgewater, we organized the Friday morning caffeine break to be an open dialog of the IT@Illinois project. It turned out to be really valuable. These are some thoughts I had coming out of the discussion.

The top priority for everyone is getting the mission actors what they need and not taking away the people they have locally positioned. All the concept authors want to give the faculty, staff, and students the tools they need to do their work. This core value translates into a needed agility at the mission actor level in order to be able to provide them what they need as quickly as possible.

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Central IT, governance, and shifting the stack

This post is going to be somewhat of an open response to Ingbert's comment to my post on the IT@Illinois launch, and it will segue a bit into talking a bit about some aspects of a concept I've been working on with an amazing group of IT people from around campus.

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IT@Illinois kicks off

Yesterday was the kick-off of the IT@Illinois project to envision the future of IT at the Urbana-Champaign campus of University of Illinois. Going into the day, we knew a little of what Sally Jackson, CIO of the campus, had in mind, but we did not know a significant amount of detail of what the Provost was thinking. We knew that the project of transforming IT on the Urbana-Champaign campus was going to be launched, but we did not know what that meant. What did we learn on the day of presentations?

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Competitive advantage from IT

Andrew McAfee is a professor at the Harvard Business School, and he writes some interesting things in his blog about his research and thoughts on the new dynamics of the enterprise. In his latest blog entry, he talked about some of the research behind a new paper he co-authored about how IT is a driver of competition among companies in the same industry. That blog entry and that paper are what got my thoughts going.

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The Savvy Manager

This is a column I wrote for Systems Management News that I am reposting here.

Being a manager in IT is an challenging and often thankless job, but there are steps that we can take to make things better. Making things better though involves keeping multiple things in mind - the company, our team, and ourselves. To get things going in "The Savvy Manager," let's look at these components and some of the issues we should have in our thoughts.

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The New Enterprise

With the new version of Firefox coming right around the corner and enabling web-based applications to run locally, the new enterprise might be on the verge of coming into being. This article at Systems Management News talks about the growing struggle between IT and computing in the cloud, and Andrew McAfee at Harvard Business School has been teaching and writing about the next generation enterprise for a little while now.

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Add Value to your Business by Understanding the Business

The new issue of Systems Management News is out with my latest column. In this month's column, I talk about adding value to your organization by building better understanding of your organization and its industry. As a leader and manager in IT, we cannot sit in front of our computer screens focused on our technical work. We need to get out into the organization in order to gain knowledge and build relationships.

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Thoughts on Technology Accelerators

One of my blog's visitors asked me some questions about technology accelerators as described in Good to Great, and she said it would be ok if I posted the response here as well.

If technology cannot make or break a company's level of greatness, but only serves as an accelerator of greatness or demise already in progress, then why did everyone fall in love with technology for technology's sake during the 1990s?

There are three main reasons in my opinion, and some companies might have more than one of them.

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A talk on innovation from TED

We are painting the house this week which means I probably will not have time to make a full entry. However I do want to offer you one piece of content to perhaps inspire you and your creativity. In case you don't know what TED is, imagine a place for lots of smart people get together and share their ideas. These ideas are not just the obvious but offer new perspectives on a lot of different subjects. They have started releasing presentations made for TED online, and many of them are quite powerful.

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