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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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		<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>
		<comments>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/07/business-it-alignment-a-twisted-tale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>Which IT Needs Business Alignment?</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/06/which-it-needs-business-alignment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<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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		<title>What Business Would IT Align To?</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/06/what-business-would-it-align-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;It&#8217;s more a Zen state of mind that you have to constantly be changing and morphing along with the business.&#8221;
Holly Morris, CIO at Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a faith-based, non-profit insurance provider (1).
I like this quote very much because it demonstrates the willingness and the capability of IT to serve different business interests with a quiet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Quiet Force of IT</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/06/the-quiet-force-of-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The mass of IT Leaders lead a corporate life of quiet frustration.&#8221; 
This was the thought that crossed my mind when I read recent press articles on the CIO crisis. This quote is a paraphrase of Henri David Thoreau who has said &#8220;The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation&#8221; more than 150 years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Darwinian View of a Successful IT Organization</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/04/a-darwinian-view-of-a-successful-it-organization/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/04/a-darwinian-view-of-a-successful-it-organization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fortnight ago, I submitted a post called &#8220;3 steps to a successful CIO&#8221; in which I surmised that his/her journey from the geek kingdom to the boardroom would follow a Darwinian evolution. This follow-up post will expand on that theme by suggesting that this journey cannot skip over any step but could be accelerated through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Steps to a Successful CIO</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/04/3-steps-to-a-successful-cio/</link>
		<comments>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/04/3-steps-to-a-successful-cio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than any other corporate executives, the CIO is the one who constantly struggles with his/her identity. Nobody ever questions the roles of a CEO, a COO or a CFO (except when there is an internecine power play among them). Other Chief Officer types are more of a label of convenience than true members of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new tag line</title>
		<link>http://tao-of-living.com/2009/04/a-new-tag-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look at the headline of The CIO Assistant&#8217;s Blog, you will see the new tag line &#8220;Helping IT Leaders Optimize, Align and Grow&#8221;. I will expand on this theme in upcoming posts. Suffice to say that I strongly believe that if you, as an IT Leader, put these 3 notions into action, you [...]]]></description>
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