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IT Moving Beyond Automation to Creation

Susan Cramm has a great post here about the new frontiers of IT. She says, Recently, I asked some business executives for their top three IT wishes. Across the board, their responses echoed a common...

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Investment Tax Credits 2.0 — We Need to Consider Intangibles

An article in Business Week here about a conversation going on between Silicon Valley and Washington DC about the possibility of creating an IT innovation tax credit. This is a step in the right...

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Management Lessons on Web 2.0

Thanks to KNOW Network here for the great summary of McKinsey’s suggestions here on how to make Web 2.0 work: The transformation to a bottom-up culture needs help from the top. The best uses come from...

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How to Increase the Return on Your IT Investments NOW

I love the fact that McKinsey is talking about IT as a strategic investment here and advising companies to avoid wholesale slashing of investments in “Managing IT in a downturn: Beyond cost cutting.”...

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Strengthening Relationship Capital by Automating the Supply Chain

Our monthly call for the Intangible Asset Finance Society last Friday was great. Bob Rittereiser shared with us his view of the need for greater automation and control of global supply chains. It’s no...

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IT and the Building of Intellectual Capital–Are You Ready?

I was inspired by a great post here from IT Business Alignment blog that talked about the need for IT to focus on business, not technology. In drafting my comment, I came upon  an analogy between...

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Intellectual Capital Advice from Google’s Larry Page

In Larry Page’s commencement speech at the University of Michigan, he shares a lot of personal stories and also includes a gem about intellectual capital. The personal stories include his family’s...

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How can we use IT to optimize our Intellectual Capital?

I received a call the other day from the administrator of a good-sized Sharepoint implementation. He had actually fielded a number of requests from managers in his organization about how to use IT to...

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CIO’s–and CFO’s–Need to “Get Real”

There is an interesting report at CFO.com called CFOs to CIOs: Get Real. My response is that CFO’s need to “get real” too. One of the biggest barriers between CFO’s and CIO’s is how they view the cost...

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IT Management is Really IC Management

The KNOW Network just declared IT Departments Fail to Deliver Value based on a global survey of IT executives by Axios Systems. Here are a few of the data points they cite: 57% believe their systems do...

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