Moving from Strategic Planning to Strategic Management (Part II)
Strategic management is a logical set of connected activities that enables the organization to make its strategy work. It is a process. ...
May 12, 2010
Moving From Strategic Planning to Strategic Management (Part I)
Seventeen years ago, researchers at IBM concluded that the anticipated value of Information Technology (IT) investment was not being realized because ......
May 3, 2010
A thought resource on broadcast email tools
Idealware updated one of its most popular articles in answer to the question: What are some broadcast email tools that do work well? CITI's Senior Consultant Dan Shenk-Evans is one of the article...
April 28, 2010
IT as Enabler and Beneficiary of Nonprofit Capital Markets
[Today's post is from guest blogger Steve Goldberg, who is a consultant to Charity Navigator.]“Nonprofit capital market” is one of the emerging trends in the social sector. So what is it and what...
March 2, 2010
How do you define project success?
Project success undoubtedly has different meanings to different people. In the Project Management Institute (PMI) recent issue (Dec 2009) of the Project Management Journal, it is suggested that the cr...
February 19, 2010
New Site Launches: Plastics Engineering magazine and the Lutheran Volunteer Corps
Kafi Waters, Daniel Frishberg and Andrew Pendleton worked with Wiley Publishing on this add-on to the Society for Plastics Engineers site, in Drupal http://www.plasticsengineering.org/home.Monica-Lisa...
February 11, 2010
The CIO Challenge: Balancing innovation & cost reduction
This article on the CIO challenge, by Shawn Banerji for baselinemag.com, is a few months old, but still very relevant to the challenge CIOs and other technology managers face this year. Some key point...
February 2, 2010
Two good reads and a good listen
Not that recent, but if you haven’t seen these, they’re worth your time:Playing by the (Wrong) Rules over at Mark Rovner’s Sea Change Strategies blog talks about how some fundraising...
February 2, 2010
Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects DC II, February 8-9, 2010
Are technology projects a source of frustration, confusion, or excessive cost within your organization? Are you curious about whether you’re following best practices and selecting the best tools...
January 27, 2010
CrisisCamp brings together tech-savvy volunteers to help Haiti
CrisisCamp Haiti is a project of Crisis Commons, an organization that brings together technology volunteers to help with disaster relief and humanitarian crises. This weekend, in DC and several other...
January 25, 2010