CIO Magazine has just published the results of its annual CIO survey and it makes for interesting reading in light of our work on the book (which is now with the publishers ). Some of the highlights of particular relevance to the key principles we...

This is a bit late in the posting - we actually passed the finished draft manuscript to Wiley three days before Christmas. It was a pretty sweet team effort in the final days, with all four of us working in parallel on tidying up, formatting and...

I just came across a thought-provoking article on Christopher Koch’s CIO Magazine blog which digs into the differences exhibited by CIOs who report to CFOs, vs those who report to CEOs. The comments on the blog entry are as interesting as the...

The past couple of days, I've been very lucky to have attended the Microsoft-hosted UK Architects Council, which brings together a number of quite senior architects and CTOs from a broad range of companies, public bodies and software and service...

Paul Coby, CIO at British Airways kicked off the 2nd day of the conference, discussing IT-enabled business transformation at the airline. He was both engaging and honest (taking comments about lost baggage and queues at the online check-in bag drop...

I spent the last couple of days in Cardiff at the Effective IT Summit 2007, courtesy of Information Age, which featured an interesting mix of future gazing and the current realities of IT in business. Myron Hrycyk, CIO at NYK Logistics (a 17,000...