Tech Decision Maker

Archive: 11-2011

• Somebody needs to kill Sony

  At some stage, most great ideas are no longer great. John M McKee makes the case that the same thing holds true for organizations and he uses Sony to make the case.

  Posted by John McKee | November 29, 2011, 5:46 AM PST

• Why 50 percent of online social media marketing campaigns fail

  Half of all online media marketing campaigns fail. Mostly this is because marketing and IT teams are often perplexed by relevance to their company’s big picture.

  Posted by Dawn Marie Yankeelov | November 29, 2011, 2:45 AM PST

• The case of anonymity in social media

  Anonymous comments are often the bane of every community manager’s existence. Even the website editorial staffs for major newspapers - perhaps the biggest perpetrators of allowing anonymity...

  Posted by Jason Falls | November 28, 2011, 5:18 AM PST

• Want to motivate your team? Here are 20 things to start doing now

  Ilya Bogorad shows you how to create a dynamic, exciting, motivating environment in an otherwise unexciting, underperforming or stodgy organization

  Posted by Ilya Bogorad | November 28, 2011, 4:21 AM PST

• Reflections on leadership and change

  A new management book gives a better handle on a roadmap to career success.

  Posted by Scott Lowe | November 23, 2011, 4:40 AM PST

• The great and powerful (and exceptionally resilient) ego

  Fear of a bruised ego can hold many IT pros back from achieving something big. Here’s Patrick Gray’s advice for getting past that road block.

  Posted by Patrick Gray | November 22, 2011, 4:20 AM PST

• Stop with the "vision" stuff

  Ever notice that some organizations spend a lot of time creating strategic plans that don’t really end up making them more successful? John M McKee makes the case that successful leaders...

  Posted by John McKee | November 21, 2011, 12:57 PM PST

• Is this the changing face of the workplace?

  The face of the workplace is changing due to these three factors.

  Posted by Scott Lowe | November 17, 2011, 4:50 AM PST

• Technical solutions looking for a problem

  IT is famous for offering solutions that are too complicated or require too much care and feeding for the problem at hand.

  Posted by Patrick Gray | November 16, 2011, 4:53 AM PST

• ITIL role conflicts and synergies

  Smaller organizations tend to have their ITIL resources handling multiple roles. Here’s why that could be a bad idea.

  Posted by Abhinav Kaiser | November 15, 2011, 3:06 AM PST