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UPDATE: Birthday Extravaganza Birthday Buddies for August
Happy Birthday to all our Aug Bday Buddies !!
threas August 4
Daffodilady August 5
Morquegirl121 August 21
Thanks to all of you for continuing with the swap, and for being such great friends ! I cant beleive we are almost at the year mark, can u ??
I will be away the first two weeks of August, but will check in as much as I can.
PLEASE post your wish list and a little about YOU August Buddies !!
THANK YOU, Kym! I can't believe there's not more August babies.
A little about me, let's see. I'll be 47 on the 4th, been married for 25yrs. I have 3 sons,22,21 & 13. I met me DH at my 1st job,a greenhouse,32 yrs. I've been working as a floral designer for about 6 yrs. I like bowling, gardening, reading,and all my Garden Web buddies, of course.LOL I'm so excited it's finally here!
Adeniums-Desert Rose
Sweet William
Porphyrocoma pohliana Maracas
Geissorhiza radians"Wine Cup"
Lithops(living stones)
Any variegated foliage
Impatiens tinctoria
"Cup of Gold Vine"
Stephanotis floribunda
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Thank you all,
Kym, if you'd like, I can make sure the addresses for the kids this month go out to everyone. I'll need them sent to me first though, okay? Let me know if you'd like me to babysit the swap while you take a 2-week break. In the meantime, I'll be hitting the cookbooks, trying to decide what kind of cake to bake for those 3 ladies...
Okay, it's August 1st, and I know you're all on the edge of your seats, wondering what kind of cake I'd bake for this month. Well, the cake is done...lol! Just watch where you put the knife, okay?
Are you ready?
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Dan, I wondered if your first cake was a self portrait, but I was going to be polite and not post the q! HA! Now THIS one IS a nice cake!!! Hmmm. Looks like blueberry, lemon, raspberry and cherry to me! Guess I'll just have to have a slice of each to help you guys celebrate!!!! You are a great cook!
If anyone needs the birthday addresses, please let me know. I know Kym tried to send them out to everyone, but if for some reason you don't have them, I'll be glad to e-mail them to you.
Happy Day-After-Your-Birthday Theresa! And congrats on your new laptop!!!!
And has anyone heard from our other birthday kids this month, Daffodilady and Morquegirl121?
Hello Everyone
I have been away for the group for a while. :(
I have been behind sending out cards (sorry I'm Late)
But today I finally got them all together and well be mailed out tomorrow.
So I am wishing all those I miss A Very Happy Belated Birthday!!!!
Hope each of you had a wonderful Day!
I received two more wonderful birthday wishes today in the mail.
JJ (shropshire_lad) sent Common Milkweed, Hollyhock, Asters Tiger Paws Mix, and Auntie's Rose. These are fantastic, thank you so much. I had my first success at growing roses from seed this year, so I can't wait to try these. And I really love Hollyhock.
divaheather, Heather, sent such a surprise - a small plant of Coffea Arabica WOW! Wow! WOW! and a bareroot of White Trillium. This is something I have really wanted. You are something else! I am so happy to have you as a garden friend. And when I brew those first coffee beans, I hope you'll join me for a cup.
Hi everyone,
sorry I haven't posted my list until now. My day has been in the hospital/ sub-acute rehab since mid June and everything has been kind of nuts. I am behind in sending my birthday cards out and was going to withdraw from the swap, but I am going to stick it out. I still have some July/Dec birthday wishes to send, so please forgive my tardiness.
Anyway, about me... My name is Amy and I will be turning 40 on the 21st. I am married for eight years. No kids, but I have three kitties who are my babies. I live in Queens, NY, and have lived in NYC all my life. I am a Physician Assistant and I work for the NYC Medical Examiner's Office, where I do death investigations. It is a very interesting job. I enjoy nature and photography, as well as gardening. I love to take pictures. I have planted a garden at my job which is coming along nicely, and people seem to like it.I enjoy working on it and it makes me feel good to do something cheerful to make grieving people feel a little better...
My Wishlist:
Tanacetum niveum "Jackpot"
Agastache "Acapulco Rose"
Dianthus "Spooky"
Silene "Jack Flash"
Himalayan Poppy
Leopard Bane
Star of Persia
Nodding Onion
Coreopsis "Limerick Dreams"
Poppies, esp Danish Flag, Flemish Antique,Lauren's Grape, Drama Queen,Tibetan, Hens and Chicks, Royal Wedding, Beauty of Livermore, Mother of Pearl
White Liatris
Anything suitable for Xeriscaping
Any of your faves, I love everything!
I wish a happy birthday to August babies. Thanks everyone for being so thoughtful. and thanks to Dan for the awesome cakes, especially the first one.
Tks u, Dan, got the addy's. I check my spam box about once a week, and Kyms email was in there with the addy's as well! Sorry kym. I should know better. For some reason her emails always go to my spam box. So, I'm set for Aug and the month isn't even half over !!!
Morguegirl, I say "kiddos" to you for sticking out the swap. Not the easy decision with hectic life.
Hope it will be a fun month for you.
Dorothy, if you're talking about the bendable ties in the shapes of frogs, grasshoppers, and lizards, then yes, I found them. In fact, after getting that first one in the shape of a lizard, finding them became sort of a "mission" for me for awhile. Some are currently helping out in the tomato patch, while others are on the grape vines, and there are 3 lizards on my porch railing where they've been all summer long! They make great decorations!
Dorothy, here's a picture of those lizards on my porch railing. I originally put them there as a temporary place to keep them, but liked them so much there that they've become a permanent (for the summer anyway) decoration! LOL!
Hi Dorothy,
Thank you for thinking about me...it was a lovely surprise to receive your card for my June birthday...
I will definitely try the red leaf spinach. I grow some Oriental veggies every summer so these will be added to my garden.
Wishing the August babies a very happy birthday! May your mailboxes be filled with cards, and may you have your fill of cake and ice cream.
Hello Everyone!
I thought I'd drop by and invite you all to come check out a perennial exchange I'm hosting this month. It's a good time to clean out your gardens, get rid of extras, and try out some new plants. I've got the link below, and hope to see you soon!
Have a great day!
Here is a link that might be useful: End-of-Summer Perennial Exchange
I got a very nice card, some homemade seed packets and seeds yesterday from Colcol. There were Orange Poppy from her garden, Morning Glory, Red Corn Poppy and Shirley Poppy. This was so nice of you to think of me. Thank you. It's very nice to have my birthday just keep going on!
Hi everyone-
My first card came today from Lisa(Ishareflowers). She was so generous and certainly lived up to her GW name! She sent Trollius,Angelica, Dianthus Spooky, Coreopsis Moonbeam,Hens and Chicks Poppies,Summer Glory and Voodoo Sedum, Helenium Hoopseii and Autum Lollipop,Amsonia,and Salvia Artemis! Thanks so much, Lisa, I love th selection. Several of my wants. Some I was unfamiliar with, and they are definitely wants now after looking them up. The Salvia Artemis looks spectacular,as does the Trollius. Thanks again, Lisa, for making my day.
Good Morning all,
Amy (morguegirl), I'm glad that you liked what I had to share. I just gathered most of those from my own garden. I think you may want to let the non commercials dry out a bit more. I have been told that Angelica is best when sown fresh. Happy growing!!!
Hello All
Been away a few days.
Dan...Love the picture of the lizards on the railing. LOL
So cute. Glad you found them.
Besty...Sorry your card was so late.
BUT better late than never. LOL
Enjoy your seeds.
Theresa...Sorry about the amaryllis seeds. I can not keep up! LOL
But they are different seeds! Had to go check, the ones you sent me are in the GH and are about 3 inches. LOL
Great minds think a like. Big Hugs!
I received 2 more cards yesterday from suecirish & ishareflowers. Thank you guys so much, it made my day!
Sue sent California Poppy,Red-orange Oriental Poppy & Sweet William! Lisa sent Poppies,Double Tangerine & Hens & Chicks,Variegated Heliopsis & Campanula Blue Chips! Thank you girls! I can't wait to see these in my garden!
Lisa, my scarlet runner beans you shared with me are beautiful! Thanks again!
Dorothy, I don't mind surprises at all!LOL
Happy B-day August babies my cards will be getting my cards together this week end.
Dan that first cake reminds me of a customer of mine. Can't get the visiual out of my head!!! lol
I am very behind on my thank yous-sorry
Sue-suecirish I am so sorry I did not post about your card last time I was on line. Yes I did recieve it and thank you neighbor.
Lisa-ishareflowers Thank you also nice selection so you think I have enough time to summer sow these and get them in the ground? I had great success w/ the one I did a month ago.
Dorathy-dimples Thank you for the cards & seeds. Love the old lady sticker on the back. lol
Thank you for the flowerseeds and card
You have all been great and it realy was fun getting cards all month (and into Aug.) Especially when they all contained seeds which we all love!!
Your Garden Buddy Annette
I received another card from colcol yesterday! Thank you Coleen, I love everything! She sent mixed colors Calendula, Annual Cut Flower Mix,Red corn Poppy,Orange California Poppy,Shirley mixed colors Poppy and wonderful little seed envelopes!!! I am going to the most beautiful garden next spring! Thanks again, Coleen!!!!
Hello B-day buddies!!!!
First I want to say I'M SO SORRY for being MIA the last two months!!! We had a family tragedy mid June and that month is very much a blur for me right now. Also my 5 year old started Kindergarten in July so that's also a bit traumatic for me since he's always been with me everyday since he was born. But I'm starting to get used to it and so here I am again :0)
I want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST babies!!!!! (again sorry is so late)
I have been harvesting seeds this last month so I have many things to share! I promise to get all of your b-day cards out this month :0)
I received a birthday card with Red Poppies,Desert Rose and a cute holographic flower sticker!Thank you so much, Chellflower! What a great birthmonth I'm having! So much better than a birthday!LOL
Monica, so sorry to hear about everything that's been going on in your life! Hope everyday gets better for you! Glad you're back & thank you for the well wishes!
Well, I'm sure glad to know that I'm not the only one who's sending very belated birthday seeds! I really am sorry for always being so late. If I start planning now for next year, maybe then I won't be late. :-(
I sent out June & July today. I will be working on August, so HOPEFULLY it'll be in the mail soon as well. I even lost my birthday cards I bought just for you guys, so until I find them, I'm just writing a few notes. Before long (maybe for August), I'll probably go ahead and let the kids make some more cards. :-)
Also, I see there's 2 birthday buddies this month (with lists posted), so I didn't end up updating the August birthday page. I think we can keep up with 2 people without a page listing them, right? (LOL) I'll do September as usual if we have 3 or more posters. If someone really wants me to put the page up with just a couple people on it, let me know, okay? I really do think they're convenient myself, but just wasn't sure if they're needed for less than 3 people in a month.
Happy Birthday to our August birthday buddies!!!!!
Just stopping by to say Hello. So (HELLO!)
Oh Dan you are still a Baby! LOL
Just wait until you are on the other side of the hill!
I finally got all my cards mailed out.
Now I'm waiting on Sept. I actually fell like I finishes something on time.
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to say thank you to Suecirish for her lovely card. She sent Masterwort and Poppy, Beauty of Livermore, two of my wants! Thanks so much. I actually got them a few days ago but I was unable to log onto GW for a few days.
Thanks again
I got a funny Birthday card from Dan and in it were seeds of Cosmo"Diablo","Toto" Rudbeckia,alyssum'Carpet Of Snow',mixed balsam,MG"Kniolas Black","Blue Star" Columbine & Double Feverfew! Thank you, dan! The card is great and I love all the seeds! I feel so special! :)
I have 2 more thank yous to post.
Angela aka angelady sent straw alpine,bird of paradis,thyme & amaranthus josephs coat. Thank you so much & it realy was a surprise!
JJ shropeshire lad sent milkweed, Aunties rose,Asters & holly hock thank you very much.


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The story teller
Last week I was at a CIO conference with 80 odd CIOs representing junior and senior CIOs across verticals. Amongst other sessions, fun and networking, some vendor sales pitches, the big draw was a small contest run by the organizers titled, "My success story". It was more than elevator pitch but less than a full presentation with each CIO allotted six minutes to talk about their learning on value creation, innovation, strategy, transformation, BITA, leadership lessons, or anything else.
The breadth of options provided enough latitude to the participants to choose anything they would like to talk about, the idea being that success has no one formula but everyone achieves success in their own way. The participants had to send in their briefs in advance with a panel for shortlisting six CIOs. Given the average work experience being over 20 years, the audience anticipation level was quite high. Selection of winners was based on an audience vote.
Success stories?
The second (I will come back to the first) one got off the ground talking about leadership and teamwork stressing on the qualities the CIO needs to imbibe. He acknowledged team contribution but stressed that the CIO makes the difference. The key message a good team with a bad leader will fail where a bad team with a good leader has a better chance of success. Ahem. A credible start with a weak finish sans examples did not get him many votes.
The next set of CIOs took a different approach. They struggled to create the magic moment and talk about their winning formula; everyone knew that all the speakers had achieved reasonable success in their long and illustrious careers. So where was the disconnect? These CIO leaders presented specific project success stories, a point technology solution in the recent or distant past that they were proud of.
Few were almost like a vendor sponsored case studies. Slide after slide talked about technology and benefits accrued from the projects. Can the implementation of unified communication, or video surveillance, or for that matter, business process management, even if it contributed to savings or productivity enhancements, be classified as 'great success'? The stories faltered to bring out leadership aspects of the individuals and portrayed them as good IT CIOs falling short of the benchmark business CIO. They failed to capitalize on the opportunity.
The first speaker
So let me come back to the first speaker with no slides or presentation; the CIO spoke with a conviction that had the audience in attention. He spoke about a journey through the years graduating from IT Manager a long time back to the title of the CIO. He discussed many milestones crafted with the help of the teams, not just IT teams, but business and vendors too. He provoked the audience with questions. The extract below based on my notes from his speech is given below.
Over the years I decided to let go, the team was given responsibilities that helped them grow; in their initial years they needed handholding, or feedback, or just a bouncing board to help them understand how they were doing. Not all initiatives succeeded, the team took the learning and shared across to fail faster. This approach has seeded many leaders who are today successful CIOs in many companies across the globe. I can count more than a dozen such team mates who worked with me who have been able to also pass this learning within their own teams thereby multiplying the talent pool.
Success is always a result of teamwork; the leader needs to give the team freedom to take decisions. When they succeed credit goes to them, when they do not, the leader takes the responsibility for lack of success. Such teams rarely need to be reminded of what matters, they rarely let the leader down. My legacy today lives with most of such team members who are shining bright.
No guesses for who won the contest. Maybe everyone is doing this; however, we need to be better story tellers.
Re-skilling for future: The adaptive CIO
Every so often I read about the CIO role becoming redundant or the exigent need to adapt to the changing world. These thoughts and hypothesis are triggered by some disruptive trend in enterprise IT or conclusions arrived at by some research house or professor based on their data. A lot of discussion and debate ensues with many CIO rebuttals and an equal number running scared to save their positions. Is the CIO placed in such a fragile footing that can be dislodged with such ease?
So I started some research of my own reaching out to many peers to find out if they know anyone within their circles extending all the way to the famed six degrees of separation who was ousted due to any such tech or social trend which creates the hoopla. Spanning the globe and attempting to create correlations between technology lead trends and CIO movements, over the last year I have not yet found even one occurrence. My conclusion was that there could be two hypothesis based on the data.
The irreplaceable role?
First, the CIOs took the challenges in their stride and integrated the disruptions in their own ways into their ecosystem. Depending on the industry, geography, size, market standing, profitability to name a few attributes, the CIOs adapted to the change and created equilibrium. Not too many CIOs of today are from the COBOL / Mainframe era, but many have traversed from Client-Server and 14.4 kbps modems to the current multi-screen hyper-connected mobile world.
The second hypothesis is that all the propaganda is created by attention seeking paranoid people who either want to make some money out of selling prescriptions to cure the nemesis or just hate the CIO. Umpteen attempts are made to sell their version of snake oil; and unfortunately a few end up succumbing to the FUD factor. This adds fuel to the noise until a new black swan is found and the cycle repeats itself.
An invisible evolution
Every role evolves with times; the triggers differ depending on the role. In the same period in which the CIO role evolved, the CFO role too changed from pure accounting to treasury management, compliance, and investor relations. No one discussed ad infinitum expectations or created models for change. In fact, some CFOs also transitioned to becoming CEOs and so have a few CIOs in recent times. The factor by which pages have been filled with advice for the CIO to the CFO would surprise even the most outrageous guesstimate.
Darwin's theory of evolution applies to every species; the same applies to a role or function too in the corporate world. Everyone has to adapt to change; for survival the species has to learn to embrace the new environment. Like the CFO did, the CIO has learnt to thrive in the chaos, sometimes revelling in it. Recent economic upheavals endowed the role of change agent on many CIOs. A few exceptional ones who did not live up to the challenge withered away into obscurity.
I believe that irrespective of the theme of the month, season or year, the perennial skill that will always stand good with every CXO is dexterity with business. Whether it is the internet, mobile, social media or commerce, micro- to nano-blogs, fads will come and go. Enterprises and businesses will acclimatize to some, sidestep a few, and struggle with the rest. The adaptive CIO will endure the onslaught, the unyielding will fade away into ignominy. The choice is there to make.
Strategic sourcing, pathetic delivery
The poor fellow was looking harrowed after week long meetings sans his CIO with the big global IT services company with whom the company had entered into a long-term strategic services contract. Six months having passed since the signing of the contract, he was wondering whether the decision can be changed or penalties levied for not meeting commitments, the contract protected the vendor in the transition phase. The presales team which was a permanent fixture in the office earlier was now trying to avoid coming to the meeting very well knowing the situation not being favorable.
Over a year of courting, discussions, negotiations and going over a long legal contract, it was a sigh of relief for the vendor and the enterprise when they did sign off the deal. As all strategic sourcing deals go, there was an expectation of maintaining business as usual with improved efficiency and lower cost; then move on to transformation driven by tools and technology which was the investment promised by the vendor. Over the decade of relationship, it was expected that there would be efficiency of scale, savings on the table, and investments in innovation with global benchmarking.
The big team arrived soon enough to transition services and fit or change existing processes into their framework, which they managed with some difficulty. Within a few months, unable to scale up to diverse needs across locations, changes in the management team were enforced and that brought welcome improvements though not commensurate to expectations. The first big review meeting was a shocker for everyone. Some milestones achieved, lot of work in progress way past due dates, a few endpoints seemed a long way off; the CIO who was well known for his patient handling of crisis lost his cool.
Opacity in contracts
To begin with, the interpretations of clauses done by the execution team were in conflict to understanding while drafting them into the contract. Stretched timelines became super-stretched timelines; senior consultants attempted to provide solace with no Plan B in case success eluded the team. The 'high tension' meeting resulted in change of pace and 'compromise' in favor of the customer. With new timelines cast, the pressure was on everyone; avoidable pressure as agreed by everyone present.
Why does delivery rarely match presales promises or timelines? Are sales teams preconditioned to sell unreasonable timelines or commitments to bag orders from unsuspecting and gullible customers? No, I am not calling the CIO names, but admiring the ability of the sales teams to sometimes get away with untenable contracts. I am also bewildered at the ability of delivery teams to squarely make a hash of even normal service delivery expectations. What causes history to repeat itself in almost every engagement?
A communication issue?
In this case, the CIO summed the case up with one phrase: "lack of consistent communication across the ecosystem". The presales team did not spend adequate time taking the transition team through each and every clause and expectation. The delivery team found significant differences on the ground to their assumptions which required change. The project lead busy fighting fire every day forgot that consistent communication is essential to setting expectation, managing perception and finally success.
I believe that it does not always matter what you do; what matters is how you communicate what you have done or planning to do. No news is not good news when everyone is expecting some change. Otherwise strategic sourcing will become a big tactical pain where real life experience defines success.
Mediocre or hyper teams
The number of IT professionals taking on to consulting after multiple changes is increasing. A lot of them were considered high potential when they worked within corporate IT functions. Some of them were also CIOs who chucked their cushy jobs to explore entrepreneurship. I started tracking down some of them to find what made them take such a step. The answers were surprising and not so surprising when analyzed rigorously.
Now consider that in recent times the lament gaining popularity is the inability to find good talent; with global competition and willingness to relocate, good professionals are always in demand. And the good ones always find it easy to bag the next opportunity. That being the case, why is it that the CIOs are struggling to hire and retain good talent?
The benchmark?
Every manager or leader has one key benchmark when interviewing people: themselves. We hire people based on our own competencies. Most (fortunately, not all) managers want to hire staff with equal to or lower skills than themselves especially for senior positions. Maybe, it is their perception of threat to their own positions; maybe, it is a low risk model when you know that the person will not be disruptive by challenging the managers' decisions. This manager wants to know everything and be part of every meeting thereby becoming the bottleneck to progress. S/he feels insecure when new solutions are presented by others which impact his domain.
A great way to maintain status quo or to keep the lights on, in this case, the CIO will perennially be challenged and discuss BITA (Business IT Alignment). The team at best delivers mediocrity and is relegated as a support function with limited participation in activities outside of their function. Organization culture too contributes to this state compounded by the CIO not reporting to the CEO. I have seen good CIOs get out of such companies as soon as they could.
Challenging the status quo
Now, when you look at high performance teams, the leader acknowledges the need for diversity and challenging status quo. S/he has always hired different skillsets and encouraged open innovation. One of my observations was that these leaders define the direction and then get out of the way leaving the teams to soar to new heights. They do not micro-manage, they facilitate and encourage the team. Making mistakes is acceptable, repeating them is not. Attrition is normally low.
I believe that to create a winning team and not an also ran, the CIO needs to balance command and control with empowerment. Everyone does not need close supervision; neither can everyone be left to do their own thing. Delegation is good; however delegation does not imply abdication of responsibility. Incorrectly delegated work can lead to challenges and success denied; the CIO should own up to equal share of success and failure. After all you cannot be the father of success and know no failures.
An old adage — "People join organizations, people leave their bosses" — holds true today more than ever. It is not an Oscar award speech but many leaders acknowledge their teams as the reason for their success when felicitations come the way of winning teams. The team too holds no grudges against the leader who is held high in trust and respect. The new age CIO is making these choices, are you one of them?
How many apps?
For most companies that got started with their IT journey in the era of the mainframe, their journey through the evolution of technology created problem of the plenty. Client-server was a favorite for department apps, and the browser made proliferation easier beyond the department. With X-base, it was easy to create small specific-purpose apps; even users could churn some code that soon turned mission critical. The ERP attempted to consolidate all processes and apps, but most survived the onslaught citing unaligned ERP processes or mission critical status. The cloud now adds to the complexity by making it easier for new apps to flourish.
Maintaining legacy apps
Every company thus maintains consultants (sometimes ex-employees who developed the apps or maintained them before retiring), vendor relationships, or deadweight to sustain the process these apps enable. Esoteric technologies requiring some antiquated infrastructure continually escapes the axe whenever renewal is discussed. Proportionately, larger the company, bigger the number of apps it has. Examples that I have observed include more than 40 instances of core ERP; another proclaimed build-up of 8,000 apps over a 25 year legacy. Many did the same thing for different people using different technologies, but neither wanted to change to the other.
How do these apps defy all attempts at eradication and survive even the strongest attempt to weed them out? Their patron saints are strongly entrenched in the corporate labyrinth and any change is touted as disruptive to the business. The CIO after a few attempts gives up in favor of bigger battles to fight with higher business impact, thus leaving the long tail of applications wagging the IT function, more often than pleasant. Thus, many people within the enterprise continue to exist to keep the machinery chugging, despite options of a better way of life.
Replacing a redundant app
An interesting phenomenon was recently narrated to me by a much acclaimed CIO of a well-known and progressive company, when his users started defending a not so good a system. This app was a sore point for the functional owner as well as the IT folks because of its unusable interface and complex execution of processes. Everyone hated it and it attracted jest and ire in every management meeting. With no change being pushed from the function heads, the CIO finally decided to do something about it and started an initiative to replace the solution. This is despite the fact that the new proposed app was offering a significantly superior experience and ease of administration.
Is this only about change management or is the issue much larger? I believe that the CIO should delegate the task of systemically going behind the hidden long tail of apps and wiping them off, to some of his/her team members. When they are working, no one is complains; they give sleepless nights to IT when they fail. Is there an easy way out? No, so keep on pushing, nothing good came out of staying put and maintaining status quo. Change is always difficult, but change is the only constant.
If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Rotten eggs
The craze for new gadgets and devices appears to be growing day by day. Emotions run high for some iconic devices and brands, where people are willing to endure cold nights and mornings, waiting for the store to open. The queues are visible across countries, so it is a global epidemic. These are normal consumers vying with the technophiles to be the first to own the product!
I own multiple devices including a few from the company in discussion, but never stood in queues to be amongst the first, though I know a few who did. I have always waited for a couple of revisions or generations to pass by before acquiring the new iconic device; the primary purpose seen seems to be displaying it prominently or announcing it by the footer in the email.
I get carried away; this is not about new devices or the long queues, but about rotten eggs. In China, fans threw rotten eggs at the stores when the company announced to the teeming crowds who had queued up for long hours that they will not be selling the much awaited device. The decision, as the announcement proclaimed, was taken for the security of the customers who turned up in large numbers. Did those customers come armed with eggs waiting for the store to open?
The incident triggered many wild thoughts. Is the idea extensible to other irritating behaviors, from, say, IT vendors who take the CIO community for a ride? What if every time there is a breach of trust, can I shower the vendor sales or support teams with choicest tomatoes (I am a vegetarian, you know!)? Is this a feat worth emulating when projects do not meet timelines or when misunderstanding of basic requirement by ignorant consultants becomes a change request?
It does have finality to the statement it makes: If I don't like the outcome, I am going to demonstrate my ire. S'il vouz plait, it may aggravate the situation, but it does create a warm, fuzzy and a lighter feeling to have vented out the frustration and anger. Will the slinging match create a better relationship between the CIO and the other parties?
Last week, while working on a few post contract changes to some service delivery benchmarks, I had an urge to pelt a lot of stuff on the negotiating party. My primal fantasy had to be suppressed to stay within defined corporate behavior and work on the issues step-by-step, steering it towards desired outcomes. Civilized acceptable behavior does not provide latitude to hurl objects when events do not take the turn we desire; even when the consumerization of devices brings unwelcome distractions.
Relationships are built over a period of time, but they can be strained for a long time in an unguarded moment. This applies to any relationship, peers, bosses, team, vendors, family, and friends. CIOs forge relationships possibly with a larger set in comparison to some of their peers. Success is highly dependent on setting and managing realistic expectations. Service delivery and change management are key tenets of the IT agenda.
After all we don't want to be at the receiving end of the rotten eggs.
Vendor lock-in
Kids ask the most interesting questions; they make you scratch your head and think. I had this experience recently when interacting with a gathering of B-school kids. The occasion was an event organized by the students with the industry exploring insights and networking. One such session was around the challenges and opportunities for the CIO. The CIOs present were heartened that the role is one of the aspirational careers.
The question that stumped some of us went something like this. CIOs take decisions on IT strategy and architecture thereby setting the foundation of the technology that will enable the enterprise for a long time. So when selecting an ERP or similar system what are the criteria to select one over the other considering that once a specific technology is chosen, it will stay for a really long time. It's like a lock-in because no one changes ERP systems normally. How do you then manage cost escalations and support?
ERP implementation and all that follows
Now, as I know, the question is largely an accurate portrayal of reality. At the time of selecting an ERP, every enterprise painstakingly reviews most options before assigning the family jewels to the solution. Such magnitude of projects is always launched with fanfare, with senior management speeches and project naming ceremonies. Committees are formed with best intent and sooner or later the project goes live. I am not getting into the success or the challenges that typical projects face; that's another story.
Over the years, with increasing licenses and customizations, the sustenance cost starts to hurt; CIOs find ways to reduce support costs or squeeze licenses deployed to keep operating expenses low. The thought of replacement is rarely tabled and considered impractical. How can such a change be ever executed? Who will drive this? Change will be disruptive to the business. The cost of replacement will be extremely high and not worth the effort.
The perils of ERP replacement:
I am sure that these reasons have some echoes for every CIO. Change is indeed a herculean task when it impacts almost everyone in the company; especially so when the change will have the biggest impact on the IT organization. Apart from the change that every employee will have to go through, the IT teams will have to get out of their comfort zones and drive the change from the front while keeping the lights on and business chugging along as usual. So is ERP replacement the peak that no CIO wants to even attempt? Or is it only for the few brave expedition leaders akin to climbing the Mount Everest? Yes the biggest peak has been climbed a few times and so has ERP migrations done with sparse frequency. Why this reluctance in proposing the change or embracing the challenge to climb mountains?
I believe that the vendor lock-in created around the difficulty of ERP change is to some extent promulgated by the CIO. It is time to abandon this myth and start exploring new horizons in the new world being created around us. We can be part of the creators rather than accept status quo irrespective of whether we were part of the original decision or not. Every decision taken is based on facts at the time and is largely a correct decision. Should we allow this to constrain the future? After all, if you keep climbing smaller mountains, no one rejoices with you as much as if you did climb the Mount Everest!
Walk the talk
Almost all of my posts are based on personal experience or interactions with people from various walks of life. For a change, while looking for new topics to write about, I started scanning a few Web sites positioned at CIOs and aspiring CIOs. I also decided to look up a few celebrity bloggers and tech writers who have either been ex-CIOs or respected consultants and speakers in many CIO forums internationally.
I do receive and read more than 50 odd newsletters every day across various subjects; industry specific from retail (my chosen industry for the last five years), Human Resources (for people tips and ideas), e-commerce, social media, leadership, current affairs, regional news, politics, and many CIO focused sites. These are supplemented with some internet browsing, five newspapers and some IT magazines daily. The summaries and news briefs keep me updated with information which helps me understand trends and stay current with the world.
Being worldly relevant
Coming back to my search of the sites, the idea was to look at what is the world talking about? Can I pick up a few insights that could help me in creating the next week's blog? Are my posts still relevant to the CIO or am I living in a world detached from reality? What new innovation have I missed while running on the technology treadmill (see my last week's post) and getting to be a retailer and a coach to start-up CEOs and future CIOs?
Headlines on new product introductions (tablets, phones, servers) and some of the hyped upcoming technologies took up 70% of the landing page across all the sites. A few links to notable blogs on the sites, vendor advertisements and videos made up another 20%. Desperately, I started scanning for CIO leadership, business challenges, innovation, people management, and customer engagement, anything that was removed from technology.
CIO case studies
On one site I did find some hidden behind a menu option; it was a CIO case study on how she overcame a difficult business situation with her expertise in business. On another site, a menu button offered expert advice; but clicking a few links got me some technology experiments and vendor sponsored white papers. When every publication rues and makes a case for a business savvy CIO, why is the content not reflecting this? Why are these sites still about technology and are they really targeting the CIO?
The CIO and business
Take any IT publication (physical or electronic), irrespective of the target audience (CIO, IT managers, channel partners, broad-based audience), the editorial or one of the cover stories is always about what the CIO should be doing to stay relevant to the business. The underlying theme is always about business before IT. But after the preaching is done, back to business as usual, do you know about the new 64-core server or the next crossover device with zillion pixel screen?
They proclaim, CIOs should evolve, cite surveys from other CXOs, CIOs, vendors … and then publish technology trends, new servers, tablets, smart phone comparisons, stuff that matters to a technology professional, and detached from a CIO who would depend on his/ her team to advise him on the relevant tools required to achieve the defined business objective. Why can they not walk their talk if their defined target audience is indeed the CIO or the senior IT leader?
I believe that evolution is slower and selective than technology innovation.
The technology treadmill
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
– Theodore Roosevelt
There have been predictions on hot technologies and trends to watch out for across the board; from vendors, IT consulting companies, media companies (not just IT), academic circles, individuals, groups of various kinds, CIOs or otherwise. The lists, short and long, good and bad, have caught the imagination of many CIOs as well as others within the company who are asking how will it impact us within the company, and our customers.
Any good tools?
It is certain that a few will create enough hype and threaten disruption. Be it personal devices or back-end technologies or even consumer-facing applications, every new tool or technology promises to change the way business is conducted or how we engage with customers. Some are improvements over existing tools, wherein the novelty factor fades away quickly with the response of the existing leaders; the rest fail to follow up on the initial promises.
We occasionally find some (tools) actually providing benefit to the enterprise; some are measurable, while the rest is largely a race against competition to deploy, and 'look' savvy. Our employees and customers expect the adoption of almost every new announcement the following day. Thoughts about security or reworking or plain simple ROI are for the CIO to figure out. Vendors and consultants definitely benefit from this running behind the technology.
From the time of the mainframes to the promise of the Internet, social media, and consumerized devices of today, with apps and everything in between, technology has created opportunities and challenges for the IT organization. The pace of change is increased with ubiquitous technology; the accelerator is now on auto with everyone running to stay in place. Can we afford to stay where we are, and be observers or slow adopters with a hope to survive the mad rush to nowhere? Is there a likely respite from the ever increasing pace of changing expectations?
Can you ignore the change?
The technology treadmill will continue to move irrespective of whether we hop on board or not. It is extremely unlikely that we will be allowed to stay on the sidelines and admire the speed at which the treadmill and its players are going. CIOs will have to stay connected to the pulse and inspect every change from multiple angles. Some team members will have to keep jumping on and off the treadmill to ensure that the ramifications are understood and communicated effectively to set realistic expectations.
In most cases, the call on which ones to stay with or discard will remain with the IT organization. Success or lack of it will however be decided by our internal and external customers and stakeholders. Can the CIO get off the technology treadmill and stay relevant? I believe that pragmatically the CIO and now even the other CXOs have no choice. They did not enroll into this madness; but have been made party to it simply by being there; exclusion is not even an option anymore.
I am going back to the treadmill with a quote that I leave behind after listening to some retired CIOs:
"Strangely enough this is the past that someone in the future is longing to go back to."
– Ashleigh Brilliant.
The price of inaction
The setting does not matter, but whenever I meet someone unrelated to IT (with IT folks the discussion is anyway about IT); the conversation always ends up with talking about how they use technology. Maybe something to do with me, so when I met with a CFO of a large company, we predictably ended up discussing the health of their IT systems.
A family-run business
The company had grown organically to become a leader in its industry and now had global aspirations. Family run, it had over the years invested in IT to keep pace with the change in technology. The owners indulged the new generation, allowing them to embrace cutting edge technology, while retaining the legacy systems for the comfort of the stalwarts who built the company. The diversity that thus coexisted was amazing, to just admire the profoundness and marvel at how it all worked together.
Being headless
Hundreds, not thousands, of almost disjointed small systems supported mission critical tasks across functions and were held together by the experienced hands that orchestrated the business. The management had discussed and debated renewal for a decade to replace the increasing inventory of applications with a contemporary ERP. The decision was always deferred with the fact that it has worked for us so far, so it should work in the future too. We have survived downturns, competition, and grown.
They did not have an IT Head and had never thought of getting a CIO. What about cost of sustaining diverse and antiquated technology? The response was, my IT vendors take care of that. Were employees happy with the situation? It works, so happiness is not the consideration. Was productivity optimal? Grudgingly he accepted that it could be improved upon.
In the second decade of the twenty first century, a successful large enterprise working with neither a formal IT strategy nor a CIO! As I dug deeper, it was evident that the unfettered IT had its advantages. There was agility in creation of solutions where required; business teams worked with multiple partners and even individuals, to get processes or content enabled. Across various offices and functions this was the norm.
Integration and reporting was on another planet. Rarely did anyone agree to figures; and sharing of best practices or synergies in process was unheard of. The local optima did not favor global optima. The CFO was at the receiving end of most of the chaos, but did not see ROI in large scale change. He lamented the fact that competitors were beginning to catch up and technology may have a role in that. The promoters wanted to step back and handover reigns to the next generation and professionals.
Can total or strategic outsourcing solve the problem? We discussed and debated the merits and challenges of this approach, the change management across the diverse enterprise and employees across locations. Giving away the problem will not necessarily solve it. Someone internally will have to own the change, coax it step by step and create lasting change. S/he will have to take everyone along the journey. My humble suggestion to him was to get a CIO.


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What is CowScout?
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- Data transmitted to a wireless receiver – CowScout can be used anywhere – for cows or heifers – with minimal system implementation.
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- Versatile – CowScout is not just for dairy cows. Activity monitoring can benefit heifer raisers and beef cattle operations.
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So first up...
A two year old study on lager yeast and the effects of pitch rates.We know that pitch count is important and that there obviously is a point where too high of a count can be detrimental. This entry discusses those effects.http://www.scientificsocieties.org/j...8-0522-552.pdf
Things I found interesting:
- Final cell count was the similar regardless of initial count.
- Typically higher high alcohols but lower ester formation in HD pitches.
- Note DMS and Diacetyl differences between the two pitches.
- Fermentation time
- Yeast strain plays a major role in final outcome.
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During our inspection, we noticed that they just "covered over" the small attic windows with the siding. Inside there are still single pane glass windows...and you can see right through them to the back of the siding...
Now, there's no NEED for the windows...the attic isn't "livable" space. I just thought this was a little strange.
Has anyone seen this before? And...do you think it could cause any issues over time?
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i'm pretty sure the visual made most forum members (who would likely support removing the vinyl altogether) cringe. i doubt it is 'hurting' anything other than eyes. covering a window does give water fewer points to entry and it gave the siding installers less trim--an area where water comes in--to worry about.


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big difference. i watch more "TV" on the computer than i ever did on the TV. everybody else also has that option. i don't have a realistic, "cheaper" option for transportation...
But you are watching TV online with your broadband connection. Guess who controls that and has every incentive to keep broadband prices high so as to not kill the cable TV cash cow.
The reason this deal is scary is that for the vast majority of businesses in 19 of the 20 largest metropolitan areas in the country, their only choice for a high-capacity wired connection will be Comcast. Comcast, in turn, has its own built-in conflicts of interest: It will be serving the interests of its shareholders by keeping investments in its network as low as possible — in particular, making no move to provide the world-class fiber-optic connections that are now standard and cheap in other countries — and extracting as much rent as it can, in all kinds of ways. Comcast, for purposes of today's public , is calling itself a "cable company." It no longer is. Comcast sells infrastructure subject to neither competition nor a cop on the beat....
In comparison with the rest of the developed world, the US has slower broadband speeds and higher broadband prices than just about anybody....
The US, by contrast, is unique in that it has very high broadband prices and an abundance of bandwidth. The country as a whole — or at least its urban centers — has no shortage of bandwidth at all. But if you want to connect your home or business to the major internet backbones, the cable-company gatekeepers will charge you an arm and a leg for doing so.
Farhad Manjoo has the explanation for why this should be. Internet service is very cheap for the cable companies to provide, and it's also price-sensitive: if you reduce the price, more people will sign up. As a result, the cable companies would make more money from their broadband offerings if they reduced the price. So why don't they? Because right now, 91% of Americans with broadband also have cable TV (I think, I can't find the link for that right now), and the cable companies make their real money from TV, not broadband. The cable companies therefore have every incentive to price broadband as high as possible, so as to make the marginal extra cost of getting TV as well as small as possible.
In the US, cable TV rates are very high; as such, the best way to prevent cord-cutting is to ensure that broadband rates are also very high....
If Comcast is allowed to buy Time Warner Cable, that model won't change — but it will be reinforced. The cable companies will continue to price broadband at uneconomically high rates, in order to protect their cable TV cash cows. And as Krugman notes, they will have essentially no incentive to improve their own broadband infrastructure, since providing high-quality broadband is not how they make money. Instead, they will just continue to extract monopoly rents, which is good for their shareholders, but bad for everybody else.
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This is a 3 bedroom/2 bathroom home located on Via Del Ray above the golf course, approximately 7 minutes from the ski area. This home will accommodate a maximum of 9 people. This is a two story home. The house has saltillo tile in the mud room, kitchen and hallway with light Berber carpet throughout the house. The living area features large picture windows and patio doors leading to a front deck with great views. The room has two sofas, satellite TV and a gas burning fireplace. The kitchen is fully equipped with all major appliances. The dining table seats 6. There is additional seating for 3 on stools at the kitchen counter. There are two...Read more
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Ahh, the glory of stereo. It is so difficult to impart what a difference it made when it first became generally available on records in 1958; for audio nuts, it was a dream come true, whereas for the common listener stereo was a little slower to catch on. Of course, many decades have gone by since no record company in their right mind would issue something new in mono and when they stopped mentioning that a given album was in stereo; it had become the accepted standard. Guild's The Golden Age of Light Music's Orchestral Gems in Stereo hearkens back to that first blush when stereo was available for the first time, and the recordings included reflect such infatuation; the horns in Paul Weston's take on Jerome Kern's "She Didn't Say Yes" are on the opposite side of the stage from the strings, certainly not the way it would be in reality, but this is a reality created expressly for stereo. Not all of the selections sparkle; Warren Barker's "Just a Kiss Apart" is trapped in the maudlin sludge of the smarmy side of the easy listening genre like a pachyderm sinking in the La Brea tar pits, and the future Angela Morley's (née Wally Stott) rendering of Fats Waller's "Chelsea" is led by dreamy trumpet and is as lush as extra thick carpeting. But certain other pieces -- and there are 25 of them here -- are quite commendable; while John Scott Trotter's version of "Misirlou" will probably never rock you like Dick Dale's, it's still plenty spicy, and the little trails of melodic weirdness in Les Baxter's "Shooting Star" well succeeds in lifting the piece out of the category of the merely ordinary. With a little patience and some measure of understanding of the light music genre Guild's The Golden Age of Light Music's Orchestral Gems in Stereo should deliver some thrills and entertainment, even if you find yourself moving it forward a track or two at some point during the program. Uncle Dave Lewis , All Music Guide
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