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Dr. Jim Anderson explains why there are some problems that an IT department just can’t solve — because they are wicked problems. Dr. Anderson identifies why traditional IT problem solving techniques won’t work with wicked IT problems and how you can determine if a problem is really a wicked problem. Get a free … Read more
How do you make decisions? We’d all like to think that we carefully weight the available evidence and then use our past experiences to make the right decision each time. However, the reality is actually quite different. As CIOs we are asked to make some very big “bet the company” types of decisions. If we … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson discusses an outage that happened at the London Stock Exchange. Dr. Anderson identifies what may have caused the London Stock Exchange outage and if cloud computing could possibly help prevent this from happening again. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: http://goo.gl/NOfh2
Let’s face it, CIOs just like everyone else are currently being overwhelmed with too much information on a daily basis. Things were bad a few years ago, but with the arrival of blogs, wikis, Internet video and smartphones, there just doesn’t seem to be any way for us to keep up. That’s why more and … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson explains the issues that CIOs need to be aware of when they are evaluating using cloud computing. Dr. Anderson identifies seven issues with moving a company’s applications and storage into the cloud. He explains how CIOs need to go about dealing with each of these issues. Get a free subscription to … Read more
To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. The ability to mash together a bunch of different expensive individual servers and shrink the company’s IT footprint down by a factor of … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson explains why IT departments have such a hard time communicating with the rest of the business — we use too many terms to describe the same things! Dr. Anderson explains the idea behind an IT dictionary and then presents a case study of Best Buy who was faced with 400-500 IT terms … Read more
CIOs are currently being faced with making a decision that will impact their IT departments for years to come: should they move their IT operations into the cloud and if so, should it be a public cloud or a private cloud? There are a number of technical issues that can help drive this decision; however, … Read more
As the world slowly recovers from its great economic recession, CIOs are gearing up to help their companies do battle with their competitors. Everywhere in this great land you can hear the same words being repeated “I want more innovation!” Umm, ok. It turns out that innovation doesn’t just happen. Instead you need a whole … Read more
One of the biggest challenges that modern CIOs face is how to do a good job of managing their IT department. The burden of making the right technology decisions, managing budgets, and meeting the needs of the rest of the company is challenging enough, but what can make or break a CIO is how good … Read more