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3 Core Components of an Effective ICT Project

July 28, 2009

Everyday that goes by technology becomes more and more a part of our daily personal and professional lives.  My mother has been saying for years that I am “technology dependent” and my wife even calls my iPhone my best friend (ok so I’m a lost puppy dog when I don’t have it).  I remember back [...]

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Add Mind Mapping to your Technology Tool Kit

July 27, 2009

I was catching up the Twittersphere while watching my Tour de France DVR recordings and I picked up a great link to a website called Hypershifters which discusses visualization mapping for business and specifically technology.
Mind Mapping is a tool I added to my arsenal a few years ago and I can’t live without it now. [...]

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The Changing Role of the CIO: New Skills Needed

July 25, 2009

Keeping with the them of the latest feature article “What Technology Professionals Can Learn from History” INSEAD has a great post, video, and articles around the change role of the CIO and the necessary leadership skills needed. You can check the post and a wealth of other information here.

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Half-life of Technology Knowledge

July 16, 2009

Throughout my career I have become a broken record around the following quote:
The half-life of knowledge in technology is 6 months. Half of what I know sitting here right now will be obsolete in 6 months, that is the speed at which technology moves and why you can never stop learning.
I’m sure there are [...]

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UNESCO-Microsoft Task Force on Higher Education and Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

July 10, 2009

Keeping with the education focused theme of the latest feature article I wanted to do a quick post on the announcement I found here about Microsoft and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization teaming up to focus on technology training programs.  Microsoft is contributing $50 million to support the ICT task force focused [...]

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Why Technology Education is Failing the Millennial Generation

July 9, 2009

So the topic of this post first started during my morning cup of coffee while wading through my Google Alerts on relevant topics, and continued a few days later with a lunch conversation with a former co-worker and friend.  The first link that caught my interest was an article from a web site in Zimbabwe [...]