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CIO – 25 years later, is the role becoming outdated?

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Administrator

I recently realized that this September will be the 25th anniversary of the launch of CIO Magazine. I wrote the cover piece for that first issue — “The New Breed of CIO” — and the first paragraph of my article … Continue reading →

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The “Socialism” of Social Media

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Administrator

This relatively short article is packed with interesting ideas .. some explicitly mentioned, some not so much. My View On ‘The New Socialism’ These three points particularly jumped out at me. A – Online social media is growing at an … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Schumpeter on Steroids

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Administrator

It is great to see that The Economist is using “Schumpeter” as the name for a new column on business and management that it is launching. I am looking forward to becoming a loyal reader. In response to the launch … Continue reading →

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Saving the news by exterminating parasites?

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Administrator

Here’s yet another article that argues that on-paper publishers should try to save their businesses by focusing on getting paid for the content that they currently are putting online. Exterminate the Parasites A radical plan to save old media. The … Continue reading →

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News Content Is Worth Zero

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Administrator

There is a very interesting piece in Editor & Publisher by columnist Steve Outing, who has produced a steady stream of excellent commentary on the impact of the Web on journalism: Your News Content Is Worth Zero to Digital Consumers … Continue reading →

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End of business as usual?

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Administrator

I learned a lot from working on my article for the Project Management Institute’s PM Network magazine. And one of the things to which I’ve especially been giving a lot of thought is this comment from the piece: “More and … Continue reading →

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Subtle embedding of high-danger risks

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Administrator

The 2008 crisis certainly revealed the risk-management shortcomings in the financial services sector. However, the problems in financial services are simply the most visible evidence of ways in which high-danger risks have come to pervade the business arena and now … Continue reading →

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Rewards and risks confront risk expert careers

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Administrator

A great example of the double-edge nature of risk and reward is provided by the situation that is confronting risk managers. “ERM [Enterprise Risk Management] provides an absolutely unbelievable opportunity [for career advancement] for a risk manager” according to an … Continue reading →

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Risk Management 2.0 connects with new priorities

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Administrator

Risk management is soaring as a corporate priority. To pick just one indication, a recent survey of corporate board members found that 70 percent of audit committee members and more than 65 percent of the CFOs ranked ERM [Enterprise Risk … Continue reading →

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More on Risky Business

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Administrator

Here are my latest articles for Risk & Insurance magazine in my on-going coverage of emerging trends in the ways in which businesses are dealing with risk. Ratings’ Enterprise Five S&P’s Hands-On Practitioner These pieces provide profiles of the executives … Continue reading →

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