I’ve now been writing this blog for over seven years, with more than 100 full-length essays posted so far. It often surprises me which posts are the most read; here’s the current all-time top 25. I’ll update this list from time to time, so that you can see what’s currently in the lead. (Last updated: December, 2014).
For a different view of these 25, including short descriptions for each, you can reference the “top 25 posts” category page, here.
- Simple, more practical approaches to actual resource allocation
- The title issue: CTO vs CIO, and why it’s the wrong question
- Some timeless IT/tech jokes, and why they’re still relevant
- The IT project failure dilemma: how to get early warnings
- Business impact and transparency: expressing system availability
- The title issue revisited: CTO vs. CIO
- Can a CIO be successful without IT experience? Define your terms!
- “Astounding IT sayings”: the inaugural post
- Complexity isn’t simple: multiple causes of IT failure
- One CIO’s “lessons learned” in managing others
- Career tips for the CTO/CIO path
- Nuts: the biggest trap of all for IT stakeholders
- Using feedback loops to improve IT department service
- Novels of IT, Part 2: Haunting the CEO
- Hiring and firing: an example of a stellar employee
- CMOs outspending CIOs on technology: “so what?” Here’s what.
- IT transparency is good. But how transparent should you be?
- Yes we can, yes we must: the ongoing case for IT/Business alignment
- The Practical CIO: Difficulties in project prioritization & selection, part 2
- IT consumerization, the cloud, and the alleged death of the CIO
- More timeless, still-relevant information technology jokes
- Why the CIO should air the dirty laundry
- The Practical CIO: Difficulties in project prioritization & selection, part 1
- A rational CapEx purchase and tracking process for IT
- Novels of IT, Part 3: Adventures of an IT Leader
