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3 Ways to Improve Your Organization’s Culture

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Their aggressive posture led to significant financial troubles in the market downturn of 2008; in bull markets, though, they tend to fare far better. In both of the cases I’ve outlined here, the organization’s culture usually dictates its strategy. That culture can help and it can hurt. So, what is your culture?

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Open Source Software Hits a Strategic Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Based on surveys my colleagues at Gartner and I have conducted over the past several years, mainstream adopters of IT solutions across a widening array of market segments are rapidly gaining confidence in the use of open source software, with many now stressing its valuable features more than its risks.

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Define Your Strategy. CIOs need to develop an affirmative IT strategy that begins by identifying old behaviors to give up, new behaviors to adopt, and remaining behaviors to do differently. Many organizations are approaching the tipping point being described in this series of blogs. Or maybe it doesn''t really need to be done.

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