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Your IT Governance Coach Podcast Archive

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Friday, August 17, 2007 Lessons from US Passport Decision
"In this Podcast we analyze the poorly planned and executed decision by the US State Department regarding passport rules to see what we learn from it and apply it to our own governance environment."
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Friday, June 8, 2007 Getting IT Organizational Design Right
"In this podcast I cover the levers that need to be considered when re-aligning an organization, and the things that need to be kept in mind to make the journey to the new organizational design a successful one."
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Wednesday, May 9, 2007 CIO Time Wasters
"We review common CIO time wasters according to Gartner and how IT governance can help."
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Wednesday, March 27, 2007 Implementing CobiT: where to start?
"In this podcast I cover the IT governance decisions considered the most important, and perhaps, a good place to start."
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Sunday, February 18, 2007 PMO, IT Governance, and CobiT
"In this podcast I cover what a Program Management Office (PMO) is, how it relates to IT governance and CobiT, how to measure the success of a PMO, the staffing of a PMO, its responsibilities, and offer tips to on how succeeed forming one."
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Thursday, January 4, 2007 New Year Resolutions and Corporate Goals
"In this PodCast we explore successful techniques for creating effective new year resolutions and how the learning apply to the creation of annual goals and objectives at work"
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Monday, December 18, 2006 Personal Leadership Retreat
"When was the last time that you took a personal leadership retreat for one or more days? Why is this introspective time important? What would you do during a personal leadership retreat?"
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Friday,December 1, 2006 Four Actions to Improve Outsourcing Success
"In this podcast we cover four simple actions a team can take at the start of the engagement to increase the probability of success in the outsourcing relationship."
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Monday, November 13, 2006 Working with Multicultural Teams
"Because of the flat world and off-shore outsourcing we find ourselves increasingly working in multicultural teams. This adds a lot of business value, but only if we manage our differences."
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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 Sponsorship and Governance
"In this pocast we'll explore change management, sponsorship, and the relationship between sponsorship and governance. Would implementing one take care of the need for the other?"
Tuesday, October 25, 2006 Innovation as Step 1 of Strategy
" Innovation must be introduced in step 1 of the strategy development process. Many organizations wait way too long to introduce innovation. In this podcast we’ll explore 7 ideas to innovatively kick-off the strategy development or refresh process. We will also briefly mention the eight steps I use to facilitate strategy with my clients, from scanning of the environment to evaluating the strategic assumptions after actions have been implemented and the effects measured. "
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Tuesday, October 19, 2006 Successful Outsourcing Partnerships
"In this podcast we discuss the 10 characteristics of successful outsourcing partnerships. With the right sourcing strategy and governance in place, we can achieve this level of success. Author Steven Covey said that everything is created twice. We first imagine the future, and then we create that reality. The purpose of this podcast is to help us imagine what is possible in an outsourcing relationship so that we can put in place the necessary actions to create a successful outsourcing partnership. "
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 Improve IT Governance, but Don't Implement COBIT
"It is essential for organizations to have solid IT governance. However, implementing COBIT is the wrong approach to realizing that. Improve IT governance without implementing an industry-approved framework? Yes, focus on the business vision and the means to achieve that vision."
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Monday, October 9, 2006 What is IT Governance?
"IT Governance is the most value-added improvement an organization can make, yet there are so many definitions about what IT governance is. How can we improve what we can't define? In this podcast we will explore some of the most accepted definitions and we will also share the working definition and framework used by your IT governance coach."
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