One of LinkedIn CIO discussions about the survey: "outsourcing takes big turn back in last two years and insourcing increased 35%. What are you seeing?” spur many quality comments about IT sourcing strategy, the other IT survey also shows: now most of customers, large or small, prefer to have more flexibility, do not like to tie into multi-year...
Insourcing vs. Outsourcing: Five Principles to Define IT Sourcing Strategy
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 | comments (23)
Three Trends of Future of Leadership
Saturday, July 28, 2012 | comments
Leadership is both art and science, there’re numerous great books and articles every year to decode it, but nobody can completely solve leadership puzzle yet, though we brainstorm the seven ingredients for future of leadership, it seems always have some missing ingredients there, as leadership is also dynamic, some prestigious management gurus...
DevOps: The New Muscles in Business’s Agile Wings
Saturday, July 28, 2012 | comments
Modern business now embraces Big 4 technologies: cloud, mobile, social and big data, like winds at full-blow mode, business need grow agile wings to balance wind power, to become more flexible and elastic. Agile software development practices iterative & incremental methodology, where requirement and solutions are based on collaboration...
Five Reasons CIO Falls into Scapegoat
Thursday, July 26, 2012 | comments
Enterprise CIOs, like shepherds, take care of their business’s technology/information assets, however, many pitfalls ahead may make a dedicated, responsible CIO a falling scapegoat. There are many WHYs need be asked, many Hows need be experimented, in order for enterprise to focus on problem solving, than finger-pointing; to make fair judgment in leadership...
Three Leadership Lessons from Aviation/Space Heroines Amelia Earhart & Sally Ride
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | comments
Google marked the female pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart birthday with a doodle on 7/24, the other space heron, the first U.S woman astronaut Sally Ride also passed away yesterday. There are many leadership brainstorming forums these days, spur divergent thoughts about characters and charisma of authentic leadership. What kind of leadership legacy...
Modern IT: From 3 Small “s” to Three Big “S”
Saturday, July 21, 2012 | comments
Modern IT is pervasive, permeating into everywhere in contemporary business today, however, IT’s “mindset” hasn’t completely shifted from controller into enabler, from infrastructure into innovation, from back officer into brain yard yet, there’re both crucial points and s-curves on the journey, IT do need overcome some small “s’, and embrace a few...
To Celebrate Mandela’s 94th Birthday on 7/18: From Rainbow Nation to Rainbow World
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 | comments
“Nothing is black or white.” ― Nelson MandelaToday, July 18th, Nelson Mandela celebrated his 94th birthday in South Africa, the deeply loved statesman who helped bring freedom to South Africa, reminds us of the same inspirational message: “Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness”, when about two weeks ago, United States celebrated...
Enterprise Architecture: 3D Abstraction in Metaphors
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 | comments
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides greater visibility to the current and future position of an organization, and enabling the relevant designers and decision makers to act in a more informed manner. The biggest pitfalls for achieving EA value may include lack of focus or lost in translation, due to the scope of architecture and immature EA...
3P to Demystify Business Complexity: Perception, Parable, and Prescription
Sunday, July 15, 2012 | comments
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. Alan PerlisFrom Wikipedia, complex is a “complex” word with vary perspectives. In general usage: Complexity tends to be used to characterize something with many parts in intricate arrangement; In a business context, complexity management is the methodology to minimize...
