Jim MacLennan

Jim MacLennan is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at IDEX Corporation, a Fortune 1000 manufacturer that sells highly engineered products in a variety of markets worldwide. MacLennan has responsibility for Corporate IT services for all IDEX business units, and also drives innovation through initiatives that leverage Information and Technology as growth drivers for the industrial manufacturing space. He regularly publishes his observations and insights on the intersection of business and technology - check out his work at www.cazh1.com.
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A “New” Critical Requirement for Business Projects (Part 1 of 4)

As we continue the deep dive into questions like “how do I…

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More Amazing Social Media Statistics

A follow-on from my last post; speaking of interesting Social Media statistics…

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eMail is Dead, Long Live Social Networking: Don’t Get Left Behind

via Fred Wilson – a stunning slide from Morgan Stanley’s recent Internet…

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Lost Weekend: Troubleshooting a MySQL Installation

Spurred on by Blogger's decision to stop supporting FTP for publishing blogs,…

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Managing Change: Pick Something, and Do It Well

A common way of expressing the holistic nature of a project is…

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Data Visualization: How (2 of 2)

The short answer, as you know, is that it's impossible to tell…

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Collaboration “in the Wild”: Some Observations

An Enterprise 2.0 dream scenario: implementing a complex project across multiple sites,…

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Data Visualization: Why (1 of 2)

Between business requests and breathless vendors, I am getting caught up in…

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IT Budget Hacking (w$$t)

Some block-and-tackle IT management stuff for today - taking a long, hard…

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If I Told You a Fractal Solution, Could You Change the CEO’s Mind?

As the new year approaches, debates over the "value" of IT and…

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