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By Keith Parnell ⋅ March 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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Ballmer says Employees will force Move to Windows 7

By Keith on the BlackBerry ⋅ February 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In an article for CIO.com, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that employees will force companies to move to Windows 7. He said even though Windows XP is hugely popular, the ‘why old technology’ questions will force IT upgrades and roll outs to include Windows 7. What do you think? Will companies embrace Windows 7 that [...]

How is your IT Chief’s Personal Brand?

By Keith Parnell ⋅ January 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

CIO UK picked up on a survey conducted by Harvey Nash asking Chief Information Officers and IT Executives what they thought about themselves and their colleagues having a strong personal brand. 67% of CIOs and IT execs believe having a strong personal brand is very important to the IT division. Although most say they are [...]

15 Must-Read Winter Books for IT Pros

By Keith Parnell ⋅ January 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Need some guidance for doing your job better? CIO Insight says, check out these 15 new and upcoming books for insight into leadership, management and technology. IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain By Peter Weill and Jeanne W. Ross The heads of MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research [...]

Role of the CIO, Socially Speaking

By Keith Parnell ⋅ December 31, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

This is a follow-up to an earlier post about whether Chief Information Officers should have experienced technology, business or both backgrounds. I made a statement that our CIO in 2009 must be the go-to person at the C-level conference table for social media topics. It went something like this – … the role of the CIO, in 2009 [...]

IT does have a purpose. What is it?

By Keith Parnell ⋅ December 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Over the course of my career, I’ve been deeply engaged in many different concepts, projects, visions and environments within the IT community. Each of them is unique in its purpose, direction and outcome. And each has a specific aim at definitive accomplishments. Sometimes IT is the sole foot soldier and sometimes IT rides the horse [...]

IT Organizations Must Balance Risks and Rewards of Technology Innovation

By Keith Parnell ⋅ December 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Every advance or innovation seems to come with both benefits and risks, improvements and (often unexpected) complications. Whether you chalk it up to the law of unintended consequences, hype, hubris, passivity, karma or whatever cosmic force, the best-intentioned and most-benign-seeming tech initiatives and developments frequently seem to backfire in some way. Although I have been [...]

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