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CIO Rant
http://www.ciorant.net/2011/10/cios-should-quit-worrying-about-being-cios
Insights and opinions on Information Technology from George Tomko, a veteran CIO turned renegade consultant. Larr; Previous Article. Next Article →. CIOs Should Quit Worrying About Being CIOs. Oct 1, 2011. It is not as if this hasn’t been tried before. Different day different hype bomb. I think I see another one coming: “consumerization” of IT. Now our demise will come from the individual with his/her iPhone, BlackBerry or Android device.
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CIO Rant
http://www.ciorant.net/2010/04/ipad-frenzy-more-about-a-movement-than-a-gadget
Insights and opinions on Information Technology from George Tomko, a veteran CIO turned renegade consultant. Larr; Previous Article. Next Article →. IPad Frenzy: more about a movement than a gadget. Apr 5, 2010. Why would I do such a thing? Simple – it fills (or at least promises to fill) a major void and lots of gaps that many of us have. Anybody with one arm longer than the other. 8212; as much as it can be a net book, tablet PC, laptop, desktop, smartphone or even Web TV. It will soon make little sens...
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CIO Rant
http://www.ciorant.net/2011/10/cios-and-the-consumerization-of-it
Insights and opinions on Information Technology from George Tomko, a veteran CIO turned renegade consultant. Larr; Previous Article. Next Article →. CIOs and the Consumerization of IT. Oct 9, 2011. I would have loved to have been the “fly on the wall” the day some product marketing geniuses burst through the conference room (or lab) door and exclaimed that they had discovered the next best thing and it’s called. Now a new name has become popular –. For CIOs and any member of the IT department or function:.
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CIO Rant
http://www.ciorant.net/2013/01/social-media-management-or-muddle
Insights and opinions on Information Technology from George Tomko, a veteran CIO turned renegade consultant. Larr; Previous Article. Next Article →. Social Media Management – or Muddle? Jan 8, 2013. Is this a problem? Should it matter whether I am a user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google , Pinterest, MySpace, SMS, AIM, or a chat client? Indeed, there are many to choose from. From a user perspective, it fulfills a need, whether that means entertainment, or some business purpose. Since there is a ...
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CIO Rant
http://www.ciorant.net/2009/04/do-cios-have-their-heads-in-the-clouds
Insights and opinions on Information Technology from George Tomko, a veteran CIO turned renegade consultant. Larr; Previous Article. Next Article →. Do CIOs have their heads in the clouds? Apr 7, 2009. By George M. Tomko. Without a doubt, conference agendas. Is there a bottom-line here, anywhere? Not yet, maybe never. And, besides, if everyone is looking ‘up’ at the clouds, so to speak, there is no ‘bottom-line’ to look at. It didn’t take long for people to see that having 3 terminals on your desk, one f...
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CIO Rant
http://www.ciorant.net/2009/03/is-the-cio-a-pinnacle-position
Insights and opinions on Information Technology from George Tomko, a veteran CIO turned renegade consultant. Larr; Previous Article. Next Article →. Is the CIO a “pinnacle” position? Mar 28, 2009. By George M. Tomko. I think it is a healthy exercise, from time-to-time, to pressure test what you are doing, why you are doing it and would you keep doing it? There is also a high degree of portability. Deploying ERP, SOA, BPR and other alphabet-soup solutions are generally skills and experiences that are ...
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CIO Rant
http://www.ciorant.net/2009/05/cios-as-brokers-not-controllers
Insights and opinions on Information Technology from George Tomko, a veteran CIO turned renegade consultant. Larr; Previous Article. Next Article →. CIOs as Brokers, not Controllers. May 25, 2009. By George M. Tomko. As a long-time CIO and, now, consultant for CIOs, I am seeing that there is a role shift that is happening, ever so subtly, but it is going to be transformational for the role of CIO in most organizations. Perhaps it will not be manifested in a big bang , but all CIOs will be affected. In ot...
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CIO Rant
http://www.ciorant.net/2009/05/cio-20
Insights and opinions on Information Technology from George Tomko, a veteran CIO turned renegade consultant. Larr; Previous Article. Next Article →. May 25, 2009. We have Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and now CIO 2.0. Technically, this is not new, as a number of articles and bloggers have dealt with the subject over the past 12-18 months. A good treatment of the subject appears in the latest CIO Rant post.