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		<title>It&#8217;s not the blowing of the wind, but the set of your sails.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not the blowing of the wind that determines your destination it is the set of the sail.  The same wind blows on us all!  The wind of disaster, the wind of opportunity, the wind of change, the political wind, the economic wind, the social wind.  The same wind blows on us all.  The difference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scope and differentiators equals success</title>
		<link>http://www.stratetect.com/2009/08/scope-and-differentiators-equals-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned a lesson this week and it involved me breaking the golden rule of project management (external to the context of managing projects).  Fortunately no children or small furry critters were harmed in the making of this story, yet a lot of heartache and inconvenience could have been avoided for all parties involved had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking up a good project</title>
		<link>http://www.stratetect.com/2009/07/cooking-up-a-good-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst in a Project Management training session recently, my instructor shared a tidbit that I thought was brilliant.  It summed up in two minutes for me what I&#8217;d spent hours trying to make management and stakeholders understand.  That is the importance of the Project Start Up and Initiation Phase. Specifically, the production of appropriate supporting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIO and Enterprise Architect - Whats the difference?</title>
		<link>http://www.stratetect.com/2009/05/cio-and-enterprise-architect-whats-the-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 12:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So how is the role of the modern CIO defined? One online resource writes:
&#8220;As information technology and systems have become more important, the CIO has come to be viewed in many organizations as a key contributor in formulating strategic goals. Typically, the CIO in a large enterprise delegates technical decisions to employees more familiar with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embeded from WM</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 22:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Cisco&#8217;s Wendy Mars Reponds To UCS Bloggers from Velocity on Vimeo.
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		<title>Are you ready?</title>
		<link>http://www.stratetect.com/2009/05/are-you-ready/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 12:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been written about organisation transformation. There are always references to the newest, hippest methodology out there and if companies implement these things through massive change programs, it is going to save business life as we know it.  There seem to be whole professional services organisations out there dedicated to selling services to companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The customer is always right &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.stratetect.com/2008/11/the-customer-is-always-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[..and also sometimes misinformed, unqualified and frankly, disinterested. But in this service and customer centric environment, they are always right.  To elaborate, what I mean is that the customer asks for what they perceive they should receive, either by implicit contractual obligation, or by desire to increase the service level without necessarily increasing the costs.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benefit Realisation&#8230;not just a pipe dream</title>
		<link>http://www.stratetect.com/2008/11/benefit-realisationnot-just-a-pipe-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stratetect</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of the theory supporting the discipline of benefits management has developed out of the research into the failure of IT projects.  However benefits management is equally applicable to any programme or project tasked with delivering change.  It advocates the need for an integration of the process, people, information and infrastructure elements of change and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tough times and challenges..re-commit!</title>
		<link>http://www.stratetect.com/2008/11/time-times-and-challengesre-commit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like I have had a particularly tough time of late.  Have had some set backs and some challenges and I have to admit that for a few weeks, I have been feeling very sorry for myself and wondering why is this happening to me.  Today, however, I have had a revelation.  It&#8217;s all about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 tips on Alignment that can generate profit</title>
		<link>http://www.stratetect.com/2008/09/5-tips-on-alignment-that-can-generate-profit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stratetect</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[IT alignment, if done properly, is the CIO&#8217;s primary tool for creating value strategically in the company. That is, creating significant new profit or increases in the size of your customer base or improvements in your brand. Almost always, increases in value are eventually measured in terms of increased profits. 
It appears to me that most [...]]]></description>
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