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Mon, May 7, 2007 16:09 EDT
Riding the ERP Bus Forever
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Posted by: Christopher Koch in Rants Topic: Partner/Vendor ManagementBlog: Koch's IT Strategy
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It's time to begin calling enterprise software what it really is: a legacy system. The politically correct definition of the L-word usually describes systems developed around the time of the Summer
Read more »Fri, Apr 13, 2007 9:34 EDT
Risk, Not Security
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Posted by: Christopher Koch in Rants Topic: IT Organization ManagementBlog: Koch's IT Strategy
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We have to shift the emphasis on IT security to larger discussion about business risk. Why? Because we associate IT security with things that have become a very small subset of a much larger and
Read more »Mon, Apr 2, 2007 10:46 EDT
Oh Right, We Forgot that CIOs Are Unimaginative, As Well As Being Fat, Lazy and Reflexive
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Posted by: Christopher Koch in Rants Topic: IT Organization ManagementBlog: Koch's IT Strategy
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Okay, now I need to take on two bloggers at once. I recently posted a response to Wired Editor Chris Anderson's cranky rant about how CIOs are business rejects who dismiss the potential of Web
Read more »Mon, Mar 19, 2007 10:12 EDT
How Extreme Are You?
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Posted by: Christopher Koch in Best Practices Topic: Personal ManagementBlog: Koch's IT Strategy
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I was stunned by our research for the State of the CIO showing that CIO salaries have actually declined $23,562 since 2002 (as measured in 2002 dollars). The average salary has basically remained
Read more »Tue, Mar 6, 2007 15:46 EST
CIOs: Old, Fat and Reflexive
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Posted by: Christopher Koch in Best Practices Topic: IT Organization ManagementBlog: Koch's IT Strategy
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Wow, did Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, get some bad shrimp at the buffet when he spoke at our CIO conference a few months ago? In this post, he says technology is cool, but the people who
Read more »Tue, Feb 27, 2007 12:59 EST
How IT Is Putting You Out of Business
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Posted by: Christopher Koch Topic: Enterprise ManagementBlog: Koch's IT Strategy
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Greg Hackett has been a lot of things. Management consultant, founder of an eponymous research house and a university professor. Then he became an angry investor. Guys like Hackett have lots of
Read more »Wed, Feb 21, 2007 16:37 EST
More on the Halo/Horns Effect
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Posted by: Christopher Koch Topic: IT Organization ManagementBlog: Koch's IT Strategy
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I asked Phil Rosenzweig to take a look at what I've written about the halo/horns over the past couple of postings and offer his comments. Also, check out his post about the problems with Jim Collins'
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