{"id":79,"date":"2004-08-16T22:23:46","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T22:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/16\/executive_leade\/"},"modified":"2004-08-16T22:23:46","modified_gmt":"2004-08-16T22:23:46","slug":"executive_leade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Executive Leadership and IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espen.com\/weblog\">Applied Abstractions<\/a> has a report on the symposium <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espen.com\/weblog\/archives\/000147.html\">Executive Leadership and Information Technology &#8211; A Fragile Dance<\/a><\/em>.<br \/>\nJust a couple of quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jim Cash considers IT-business-alignment &#8211; the notion that the business should come up with a strategy, and IT align with that &#8211; outdated. In the companies he is involved with, there is an IT\/business convergence &#8211; and no new strategy is contemplated without thinking about the influence of technology and technology evolution on the specific business environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>A good way of understanding the new technology is to see the Internet not as wiring diagram, through which messages are sent, but as platform for inter-company applications. &#8211; <em>John Seely Brown<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applied Abstractions has a report on the symposium Executive Leadership and Information Technology &#8211; A Fragile Dance. Just a couple of quotes: Jim Cash considers IT-business-alignment &#8211; the notion that the business should come up with a strategy, and IT align with that &#8211; outdated. In the companies he is involved with, there is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}