Most CIOs know they need to become digital leaders, but don’t feel that they are there yet, according to Gartner’s study of 2,300 CIOs. Gartner refers to this shift toward digitalization as the “third era” of enterprise IT.
Phi Beta Iota: Worth a complete read. One quarter of “IT” budget outside of CIO control (probably more since they are not counting manufacturing processes that should be migrating to open source everything engineering). Open source is all the rage but not one — anywhere — has conceptualized the mix of open geo, open data, and open tools that are needed to unleash the full potential of all of us.
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Phi Beta Iota: Harrison Owen, inventor of Open Space Technology, is one of our most prized mentors. His core point above is that all systems are open and self-organizing — control is a pretense.
If Jesse Ventura or any true, electable populist candidate reads this and wants to be President, I have a plan to make it so. I ran for President in 2012, accepted as a candidate by the Reform Party. I accomplished my goals within six weeks and published my lessons learned in Reality Sandwich, where the article, How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny, is still being read today.