Posts tagged cio
Consumer Devices in the Enterprise
May 14th
I ran across this event when I was following an ad on the ComputerWorld website and thought it was quite relevant for our topic on BYOT: Consumer Devices in the Enterprise Agenda Event date: 05/19/2011 Welcome to the CIO Association of Canada, Ontario Chapter’s event “Consumer Devices in the Enterprise”, featuring guest panelists Bob Hafner (Gartner), [...]
Is Everyone a Leader?
Apr 21st
I’m coming to the end of my time allocation for the second Blog Idol topic – Strategies for inspiring, motivating and leading IT staff. I think the posts so far have mostly been about leading and less about inspiring and motivating (I could be wrong on this!) What are the traits of a good leader? [...]
Leading a Transformation
Apr 19th
Today (Aprtil 19th) I attended an event organized by the Canadian Association of Management Consultants at which Bob Stark, Deputy Minister and Chief Executive Officer of ServiceOntario, spoke about “Leading Transformation in the Public Sector”. I found the session very interesting and informative. To me, it provided a great example of leadership……having a vision, motivating [...]
“Application Fluent”, or Effluent?
Apr 12th
If you are like me, you undoubtedly get dozens of emails and voicemails offering you a solution to your problems. These marketers are working at getting more creative, and come up with a whole new vernacular to describe their products to differentiate them from all the others. These emails are normally flagged as junk, but [...]
A quick observation in education
Apr 30th
What my kids teach me is the use of a product or service can go beyond what I conceive it to be, therefore I must always keep an open mind.
Social Media A CIO View
Apr 28th
Social What? Social Media, Social Networking, or Social Business as I prefer to call it. The name itself doesn’t really matter but the end goal is clear, for business users the ultimate goal doesn’t change, impact to the bottom line. The dot com era taught us that the models may change but the fundamentals of [...]
Chapter 5 – CIO to Marketing Guy
Apr 26th
This will be my final posting on this journey topic, not because it’s done but because I am now getting into the tree’s of this, what I learn will refine and change, part of that I want to keep private, other parts aren’t germain to this story. As a wrap up here are some of [...]
Chapter 4 – CIO to Marketing Guy
Apr 26th
Chapter 4 is all about my first lesson on social marketing. When I began this journey I thought there were 2 types of marketing; email and social Reality there are numerous, commonly divided into; Email Marketing (Push) Adword Marketing (Pull) Social Marketing (Pull) We are all familiar with email, or the spam it creates in [...]
Chapter 3 – CIO to Marketing Guy
Apr 26th
It has been a while since I posted my last installment in this story, sorry to all that may be following it. In the first installment in this series I introduced the concept and how I was brought into this evolving role as Marketing Guy. Just for clarity I have not abandoned my role as [...]
Chapter 2 – CIO to Marketing Guy
Apr 26th
In the first instalment in this series I introduced the concept and how I was brought into this evolving role as Marketing Guy. Just for clarity I have not abandoned my role as CIO type, I have added the marketing to it. I started with 3 major challenges; Learn to be open to social networks [...]
From CIO to Marketing Guy!
Apr 26th
From CIO to Marketing Guy! This is a reprint from my own personal blog, this series is a primer that will help you understand a new piece I will be publishing on a CIO’s view on Social Media =================================================== This is the first in a series of posts I will share my journey from CIO [...]
Shifting the Mindset of IT to Cause Transformation in Business
Apr 22nd
The title for this post came from a speech presented by Steve Rosenthal, Vice President, Gap International, you can read his Bio here. Shifting the Mindset of IT to Cause Transformation in Business While I was at the east coast Midsize Enterprise Summit in Boca Ration, Fl. Steve presented this topic. Here is my perspective [...]
Day Three (final) at Midsize Enterprise Summit
Apr 20th
The third and final day has come to a close as I write this. This years event is wrapping up about a 1/2 day earlier than it used to, that is OK as it enables us all to travel home for some rest . Day Three The third and final day had many of the [...]
Day Two at Midsize Enterprise Summit
Apr 20th
For any tweeters out there the hash tag to follow the live tweets for this event is #ecmes Day Two WOW what a full day, starting at 6am I needed to get my daily work out in, by 8am I was in the first keynote, by 10:30pm my day finally ended, here in summary was [...]
Day One at Midsize Enterprise Summit
Apr 18th
Day One from Boca Raton, Florida at the Midsize Enterprise Summit (MES) event. The MES event is a unique event in that it has a number of unique characteristics that determine why I make room for this event each year on my calendar. The leaders on this list are an opportunity to network with 300-400 [...]
