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  • Nigel Fenwick
  • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

    Blog:The Ultimate Question

    As fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will recall, the answer to the ultimate question of life universe and everything is something a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional...

    • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

      Blog:What’s A Facebook “Like” Worth?

      It seems everyone’s obsessed with Facebook’s IPO right now. And while CMOs are beginning to understand the possibilities of Facebook, and other social technologies, to connect and engage...

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        Blog:Amy’s Baking Company Social Media Meltdown: The ABCs Of Social Media

        Of the many questions I get from clients, many center on the use of social media for customer engagement purposes — because sometimes IT staff are asked to block employees from using social...

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          Blog:Four Steps Toward Reducing IT Complexity And Improving Strategy

          Many CIOs are caught in the middle — stuck between competing demands from the CFO to reduce costs and from the CEO to increase innovation. In fact this is a topic which often comes up in our...

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            Blog:Seeking The Elusive Zone Of Disruption

            As I analyzed examples of digital disruption I’ll be highlighting at the upcoming CIO Forum — “Leading Digital Disruption” — I was struck by the way in which...

            • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

              Blog:Winning The Customer Experience Game

              We all hear and read stories of terrible customer experiences; like me, you probably have had your own share of bad experiences. And social media has made it possible for these bad experiences to be...

              • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                Blog:Winning The Customer Experience Game (Part 2)

                It may come as a surprise to some to hear that technology teams play an important role in the implementation of an effective customer experience strategy, but that's the conclusion from our...

                • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                  Blog:Do Enterprise Architects Have Value?

                  I love nothing more than a good debate, so when I read George Colony’s recent blog post “Enterprise Architects For Dummies (CEOs)” and then read the comments from infuriated...

                  • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                    Blog:Can Twitter be used for community discussion? Nestivity believes it can.

                    For many, Twitter is a great way to find out what’s happening in the world but not the first place they would turn to drive a meaningful discussion with a group of colleagues or customers....

                    • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                      Blog:It's Time To Kill Your IT Strategy

                      Yes, that’s right — I’m suggesting CIOs should stop working on IT strategy. The days of developing a technology strategy that aligns to business strategy need to be behind us....

                      • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                        Blog:Chasing KPIs That Matter

                        Is there a fundamental problem in today’s IT? I believe there is, and it’s this: IT decision-makers are too often focused on the wrong things. In a recent study, Forrester examined...

                        • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                          Blog:How I Turned My iPad2 Into A MacBook … Well Almost!

                          As my regular readers know, I try to provide something thought-provoking for most of my blog posts. But every so often something comes along that makes me go “wow, I really need to share...

                          • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                            Blog:The Gamification Of Business

                            The most engaging, most entertaining, and most stimulating presentation of IBM Connect 2013 came on the third day at the end of the opening session. I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't know...

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                              Blog:Five Lessons From Dreamforce 2012

                              It’s been a couple of weeks since Dreamforce ended, and in between client engagements and research I’ve had some time to digest the event — so I’d like to share some lessons...

                              • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                                Blog:Does BT Need A New Report Card?

                                It's time to re-think the report card used by CIOs to report on BT performance – tomorrow’s BT CIOs must look beyond the traditional IT Balanced Scorecard (BSC).  I...

                                • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                                  Blog:Sourcing Capabilities: What Big Business Can Learn From Startups

                                  It's been clear for years now that small business startups don't build massive IT departments and big operations teams. Instead they focus on the capabilities which truly differentiate them...

                                  • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                                    Blog:2013: The Year Of Digital Business

                                    While Social Business continued to evolve in 2012, 2013 will see the emergence of digital business as a new strategic theme for many firms. What's driving this shift and what does it...

                                    • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                                      Blog:What Business Are You In?

                                      After wrapping up our CIO Forum in Paris last week, I can definitely say CIOs and IT leaders care about strategy. The theme of this year's conference was "Collaboration To Co-Creation," and we...

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                                        Blog:Failure Is Not An Option

                                        As regular readers of my blog will know, I’ve been talking about moving beyond alignment for a number of years now. The fact is, too many CIOs have been able to get by on the basis of managing...

                                        • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                                          Blog:Will Amazon's Deep Pockets Strangle Netflix?

                                          Amazon’s recent distribution agreement with Epix is a big threat to the dominance of Netflix in the movie streaming market. Last year Netflix attempted to shift its business strategy to...

                                          • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                                            Blog:Capability-As-A-Service And What It Means For Technology Vendor Strategy

                                            In my last post, I wrote about the evolving need for big business to source generic capabilities from business partners/vendors. This shift provides an enormous opportunity as well as a threat for...

                                            • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                                              Blog:BT Strategic Planning: Upcoming Events

                                              For many traditional IT organizations, BT Strategic Planning is a new approach to developing technology strategy. As such, it often raises more questions than answers. If you’d like to know how...

                                              • For Chief Information Officer Professionals

                                                Blog:Which Social Metrics Have Value?

                                                For social media evangelists, the question on everyone's mind is this: "How do we effectively measure the business value of social initiatives?"    Even when we get close,...

                                                 
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