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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Underwhelming experiences with Google Wave

Took some time today to work with the new communication meme -…

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A Company is like a Sphere

Where do these great analogy ideas come from? Full credit - I…

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Training and Learning: A Different POV

The topic was training users for an upcoming project rollout, and the…

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Perfect IT

I once met with a rather thoughtful Project Manager to catch up…

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Technical Debt and the Cost/Benefit of Knowledge Retention

A rather rigorous, Financial-sounding title for a high-concept line of thought ...Thanks…

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Real Business Users and SharePoint

Introducing buzzword-compliant technology like a wiki, or integrated collaboration spaces like SharePoint,…

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The Delicate Art of Pushing Back

Commiserating a week or so ago with an old friend, struggling mightily…

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Over / Under Communication for Project Managers

It is often said that you can't over-communicate, but I'm willing to…

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Failing Faster

Here is a simple question to ask yourself: do I insist on…

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Who owns Master Data in your company?

I've had to respond to this question, inside and outside of the…

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