Hey, that’s me in the IBM Systems Journal!
I was reading a recently published IBM Systems Journal paper called “Changing the corporate IT development model: Tapping the power of grassroots computing” on my flight from Chicago to the Vizthink Conference in San Fran this week (see my Mindmapping 2.0 blog), and came across a quote that sounded awfully familiar. There was a citation, so I went to the back of the document, and sure enough - a reference to a book I wrote back in 2003 called “Igniting the Phoenix: A New Vision for IT“! Glad to see it only took about 5 years for the book to become relevant :-).
The quote talked about the changing role of the IT department from solution developer to solution enabler. Cloud computing and tools like Coghead and our very own iBuild make this more and more a reality.
The IBM document concludes:
“CIOs have an important but challenging role to change the enterprise culture to one that encourages and embraces innovative thinking and individual self-sufficiency.”
Indeed!
