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Give them faster horses! I say this tongue and cheek. Only to make the point that as technology professionals we have to lead the innovation in our organizations. Not just take requests from our business partners. We have to become as … Continue reading →

This week on CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley, I am discussing the integrator’s dilemma. The challenge technology professionals face when working to integrate third party applications in their environments   The Proven Process When we look to bring on a … Continue reading →

This week on CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley, I am continuing our discussion on project management tools and approaches with Part II of how to develop your business requirements. I mentioned in last episode that there are multiple layers to … Continue reading →

This week on CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley, I am continuing our discussion on project management tools and approaches with Part I of how to develop your business requirements. I have found that a lot of project management teams or … Continue reading →

This week on CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley, I am continuing our discussion on project management with Part II of how to use a RAID Log to manage some of the key priorities that could potentially derail your project success. … Continue reading →

This week on CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley, I am continuing our discussion on project management with how to use a RAID Log to manage some of the key priorities that could potentially derail your project success. Unknown events and … Continue reading →

This week on CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley, I am Failure to Launch and how to overcome it. Failure to launch is the gap that is preventing you from achieving your dreams and desires. As you move forward in life … Continue reading →

This week on CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley, I am continuing our discussion on project manager with some of the secrets to asking for funding of your organization or the project. Understanding how to ask for money and recognizing that … Continue reading →

This week on CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley, we discuss building a better business case for your programs and projects. One of the most important components of a project decision process is understanding what it will bring to your organization. I … Continue reading →

This week on CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley, we discuss Why is project management important. According to David Allen in his book Getting Things Done,  we all have projects. However, the most common projects that we experience in our jobs … Continue reading →

This week on CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley I am discussing Change or Die lessons that we can learn from experiences in leading change. The corporate information technology profession is facing increasing pressure to change and as leaders we struggle to get the organization to move toward what is in its best interest. In today's episode I am going to discuss the causes of resistance to change. This resistance is so prevalent in human nature that understanding its source will give us, as leaders, the knowledge we need to deploy the appropriate tools to bring about change in our organizations. This week's episode is heavily footnoted and at the end of this post I identify the journals, research, and books that influenced my thinking. I have summarized the high-level points from the show. Listen to the audio to get the full picture of what is outlined below: Change or Die "Science has shown that in only one time out of nine, when faced with preventable conditions like heart attacks, are people able to change. The lesson translates across all realms of human activity. Confronted with radical changes from outside their walls businesses find themselves unable to adapt."(1) Change Now More Than Ever Before New technologies are emerging New applications are born New capabilities are required New business opportunities arise Costs increase while prices decrease Competitors enter your market Premium items and services move to commodity items and services Information Technology Must Also Change "There is a belief among the business leadership that businesses can't move quickly because of their technology."(3) Information technology is increasingly becoming commoditized Yet, businesses continue to value information technology in its ability to assist in accomplishing their goals. New opportunities continue to expand for the unique and mundane uses of information technology The IT leadership team should pursue cost minimization in the commodity IT functions; freeing up people, funds, and resources to focus on business value and new opportunities. "To often leaders who face the daunting challenge of transforming companies don't move far enough, fast enough, or broadly enough to truly reposition their businesses." Says Stan Pace of Bain & Co. "Instead they implement a series of half cures that can be worse than the disease: round after round of restructurings, strategic redirection, or layoffs, none of them sufficient to heal the wounds. In trying to minimize the pain of change, managers actually create more of it."(6) A Turnaround is Like an Ice Bucket(6) A successful turnaround is the managerial equivalent of throwing a cold bucket of water over someone's head: rapid and dramatic. If your change is wrong, you will find out much sooner and the cost will be less than prolonged indecision If you are right, you are likely to speed up the return on investment and the business benefit "What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think and act? If you didn't your time would end soon--a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change when change really mattered? the scientific studied odds: nine to one that you won't make the needed change"(2) What Are We Facing as Agents of Change? Dr. Edward Miller said, "If you look at people after coronary-artery bypass grafting two years later, 90% of them have not changed their lifestyle and that's been studied over and over and over again...Even though they know they have a very bad disease and they know they should change their lifestyle, for whatever reason, they can't" Conventional wisdom says that a crisis is a powerful motivator for change. Yet, studies show that even the most serious of personal crises, heart disease, aren't enough to motivate real change. A forceful presentation of facts designed to instill fear,

This week on CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley I am discussing using service oriented architecture to manage information technology sprawl. Our business partners struggle with the increasing costs of technology and the constant need for increasing the s...

This week on CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley I am discussing several Developer, Design, and Data Science online forums that we as leadership should be a part of. These forums are where you developers, designers, and data scientists are spending their time online. The majority of people spend their time on sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc. yet technology professionals are spending their time on niche networks that target their interests. This week I am looking to help you go beyond the normal social networks and get involved in niche networks where your programmers, designers, and data scientists are spending their time. Perhaps you will find a network that is a niche you would like to participate in or, more important, as a leader you find a network that has the kind of talent you are looking to add to your technology team. Here is the list of networks I discuss on this episode:   Development Forums www.stackoverflow.com www.daniweb.com www.reddit.com/r/programming http://forums.devshed.com www.dreamincode.net www.bytes.com www.topcoder.com www.codeproject.com www.androidpit.com   Data Science Forums www.datasciencecentral.com www.datatau.com www.kaggle.com (bonus not included in the episode)   Designer Forums http://ux.stackexchange.com http://news.layervault.com www.behance.com www.dribbble.com   Bonus Social Network www.tech.pro   Notes: Photo via flickr.com: Forum Romanum by Martin Fisch CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley is a podcast dedicated to the development of technology leadership hosted by Jeffrey Hurley, a seasoned global technology leader who has held positions with Fortune 500 companies throughout the world including diverse countries: Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, United Kingdom, and the United States. He is currently based in New York.

Continuing with the review of one of my all-time favorite books is The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell. Last week we stopped at law number 10 and this week we will complete the laws with 11 through 21. If you haven't listened to part I, I would suggest going back to episode 127 and listen to it before this one. I start each year with a re-read of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership to refresh and refocus my personal leadership development journey. This year I want to share The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership with you and include a brief personal commentary on each of these laws. I hope that you will find these laws resonate with you as much as they have with me and enjoy Part II as we finished the second half of the list. Please enjoy the audio of this episode. Below is a summary of the show notes for the first 10 laws.This week I conclude The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership with the remaining 11 laws. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell. The Law of the Inner Circle The Law of Empowerment The Law of the Picture The Law of Buy-in The Law of Victory The Law of the Big Mo The Law of Priorities The Law of Sacrifice The Law of Timing The Law of Explosive Growth The Law of Legacy Notes: Photo via Flickr.com: Lead, By Nat Wilson CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley is a podcast dedicated to the development of technology leadership hosted by Jeffrey Hurley, a seasoned global technology leader who has held positions with Fortune 500 companies throughout the world including diverse countries: Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, United Kingdom, and the United States. He is currently based in New York.

One of my all-time favorite books is The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell. I have consistently listed this book in my top business book list every year and I have yet to find a better example of what it takes to be the best leader possible. I start each year with a re-read of this book to refresh and refocus my personal leadership development journey. This year I want to share The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership with you and include a brief personal commentary on each of these laws. I hope that you will find these laws resonate with you as much as they have with me. Please enjoy the audio of this episode. Below is a summary of the show notes for the first 10 laws. I ran out of time this week, so next week I will conclude with Part II and the remaining 11 laws. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell. The law of the lid The law of influence The law of process The law of navigation The law of addition The law of solid ground The law of respect The law of intuition The law of magnetism The law of Connection   Notes: Photo via flickr.com: Leadership Quote, by photosteve101 www.planetofsuccess.com/blog/ CIO Playbook with Jeffrey Hurley is a podcast dedicated to the development of technology leadership hosted by Jeffrey Hurley, a seasoned global technology leader who has held positions with Fortune 500 companies throughout the world including diverse countries: Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, United Kingdom, and the United States. He is currently based in New York.