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		<title>New Announcement</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/08/new-announcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am happy to announce that the CIO&#160;Assistant&#8217;s Blog now officially becomes Tao of IT. This is an attempt to merge the blog (with a specific target audience of CIO&#8217;s) and the website (with the larger theme of balanced living &#8211; Tao of Living) into a single entity. This change is part of the evolution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business-IT Alignment, An Enlightened Tale</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/07/business-it-alignment-an-enlightened-tale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer, Coca-Cola launches a new product. No, it&#8217;s not another new Coke to compete or cannibalize the Coke &#8220;Classic&#8221;. It&#8217;s a Coke vending machine. It&#8217;s called the Freestyle.
So what&#8217;s exciting about that? According to Coca-Cola press release it&#8217;s the &#8220;next generation fountain beverage dispenser&#8220;. What is remarkable is that it represents a rare breakthrough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business-It Alignment, Another Twisted Tale?</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/07/business-it-alignment-another-twisted-tale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tao-of-living.com/?p=589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Readers of this blog are now familiar with my stance on the Business-IT Alignment issue: that it would take an engagement from both sides and on a level-playing field. This is perhaps the biggest challenge facing the CIOs. Notwithstanding the constant struggle by the CIOs in the executive boardroom, the IT press coverage sometimes doesn&#8217;t help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business-IT Alignment, A Twisted Tale</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/07/business-it-alignment-a-twisted-tale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CIO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tao-of-living.com/?p=577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently attracted to a discussion on LinkedIn&#8217;s CIO Network Forum started by Mark Chillingworth, Editor at IDG Communications. He referred to a CIO-UK article entitled &#8220;IT-business alignment is still on the CIO agenda&#8220;, with the sub-title &#8220;Align with the IT, not the other way around&#8221; and the following teaser:
The debate is switching, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Peril of Data-Driven Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/07/the-peril-of-data-driven-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/07/the-peril-of-data-driven-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management Practices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I was looking for some books to read this mid-summer week-end. I ended up picking Travels, a book from Michael Crichton. Crichton, of Jurassic Park fame, was a highly readable author with many techno-thrillers on the best-seller list. I particularly like Timeline, a science-fiction novel about parallel worlds, so I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Revolution of One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faith Fuqua-Purvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post from Faith Fuqua-Purvis, President and Chief Solutions Architect of Synergetic Solutions LLC.
Wikipedia defines revolution as follows:
A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, &#8220;a turn around&#8221;) is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.
Amidst the corporate chaos and on-going organizational changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A First Guest Post &#8230; Coming Soon To This Blog</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/06/a-first-guest-post-coming-soon-to-this-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tao-of-living.com/?p=511</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Readers of this CIO Assistant&#8217;s Blog have seen a steady string of small improvements applied to the Blog lately. This time, it&#8217;s the introduction of a regular Guest Post feature. Once a month, I will invite a new guest to share his/her thoughts with you. The objective is to enlarge and enrich the view of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business-IT, Aligned?</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/06/business-it-aligned/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/06/business-it-aligned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third post in the recent series on Business-IT Alignment where the issue is examined from both sides of the coin so to speak. The objective is to demonstrate that Business-IT Alignment is possible if there is a level playing field where both Business and IT are accountable for their action, not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Rule-of-3 Quote</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/06/a-rule-of-3-quote/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/06/a-rule-of-3-quote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tao-of-living.com/?p=457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Three levels of executives &#8211; CEO, CIO/CTO, and CEA [Chief Enterprise Architect].
Three bridges &#8211; inside/outside the organization, business/technology sides of the organization, and business process/information flows/technologies within.
Three delivery mechanisms to stakeholders &#8211; one vision and organizational strategy, one technical strategy and execution, one architecture plan to deliver through technology.&#8221;
I got to love this passage extracted from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which IT Needs Business Alignment?</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/06/which-it-needs-business-alignment/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/06/which-it-needs-business-alignment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tao-of-living.com/?p=439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I asked the question: &#8220;What Business Would IT Align To?&#8221; to highlight the fact that Business is a generic term used indiscriminately for different entities in different contexts. So when a divisional head was not happy with the services provided by the central IT group, it could be called a Business-IT mis-alignment. [...]]]></description>
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