Sat.Mar 31, 2012 - Fri.Apr 06, 2012

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Burning Question: What should Ginni Rometty do?

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As she enters her second quarter as IBM’s CEO, Ginni faces a tricky scenario which frankly could qualify her for Veep consideration this summer. What to do about Augusta? Readers?

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Outsourcing and the Circle of Trust

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A colleague told me about an outsourcing firm which refuses to adopt SaaS for internal operations because they do not external eyes having access to their data. The irony is seemingly lost on them that their own staff can eye.

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CIO Do over wishlist

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Chris Murphy at InformationWeek is one of my favorite technology editors ( He also kindly wrote a blurb for the back cover of my new book.) He has a nice gallery of CIOs each expressing something in their career they.

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More trailer-tow marketing

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My wife asks me “Is Cisco an innovative company?” And I respond “Yes”. “Wow, they make great robots and cars and music.” And I go, “not the Cisco I know” So, she shows me the commercial below. Hey, if AT&T.

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The Internet Hour

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The stats in the Infograhic from Intel below are striking, but it’s easy to dismiss what companies as a whole are doing. Nothing smacks you more than the intensity of individual executives. In my book, Tony Prophet who heads operations.

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The Not-so-flat earth

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This weekend between Ray Wang’s problems with United Airlines and Dennis Howlett’s irritations with British Airways on his way back from Australia, a set of Twitter and other conversations ensued which drew comparisons to Singapore Air, Emirates Air and other.

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Adventures of a Bystander

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Recently, my former Gartner colleague, Bruce Stewart, one of the deepest thinkers I know humbly called himself a “writer”. It’s funny how bloggers strive to be called analysts and ex-analysts feel no such desire. My big revelation in the last.

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