NEWS
CIOs put Analytics at the Top of their Agenda
By Steve Rosenbush via WSJ
During the Wall Street Journal CIO Network conference, the CIOs were polled and results showed that business intelligence and analytics was the No. 1 concern for about 40% of attendees.
RadioShack to Close about 500 Stores
By Dhanya Skarianchan via Reuters
"Electronics chain RadioShack Corp. is planning to close about 500 stores within months," the WSJ reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The struggling retailer which is due to report results for the fourth quarter later this month, said it could not comment on rumor or speculation. News comes just days after RadioShack took a pricey 30 seconds in Sunday's Super Bowl to shake off some cobwebs with and ad featuring '80s icons.
ARTICLES
Does Your Company Make You a Better Person?
By Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey and Andy Fleming via Harvard Business Review Blog Network
When we hear people talk about struggling to maintain work-life balance, our hearts sink a little. As one executive in a high-performing company we have studied explained, “If work and life are separate things—if work is what keeps you from living—then we’ve got a serious problem.” In the research outlined in this article—HBR has identified successful organizations that regard this trade-off as a false one. What if we saw work as an essential context for personal growth? And what if employees’ continuous development were assumed to be the critical ingredient for a company’s success?
How to use Agile Development to Avoid Product Failures
By Sharon Florentine via CIO.com
"The agile framework forces collaboration," says Brian Bargmann, program manager with ESPN. (Bargmann says his views on the subject are his own and do not necessarily represent or reflect those of ESPN.) "You've got business and IT working together, collaborating, and that's what will make the difference," Bargmann says. "At first, everyone feels like they're 'forced' to work together, but once it becomes apparent that the goal for both teams is continual improvement, that's when you start to see the value," he says.
The Uncomfortable CIO-CMO Relationship
By Neil Woodcock via The Customer Framework
Even if CMOs were given budget purchase the IT services that they want, recent Gartner research indicates that they have, "no idea how to scale IT across business units and markets, do not appreciate data security and privacy issues and do not understand the total cost of ownership of IT platforms." What is the right way forward?
INSPIRATION
What Separates Leaders from Managers?
By Mujib Lodhi, CIO at Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission via CIO.com
Mr. Lodhi also answers the questions about how a fiftysomething IT professional can compete with the youngsters and what certifications are truly worthwhile for a network administrator to pursue.
