Relationships, relevancy, and changing the subject

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|February 29, 2012

Ten minutes into the first speaker of last week’s conference, I knew exactly what I was going to write about in this post.  The speaker was Rey del Valle, Senior Vice President of Finance for Live Nation, on the subject of “Growth Opportunities in the Music Business”, and I was [...]

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Attack of the 50 foot Cliché!

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|December 13, 2011

The role of the CIO is changing. Or was that the CFO? The CEO maybe? Somebody’s role is changing, that much I do know. How many times have you read just such an opening statement in an article or white paper and muttered “duh?” to yourself before moving on to [...]

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Systems Thinking

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|March 25, 2011

This week I had one of those rare but wonderful moments as a proud parent when I had the privilege of being in the audience when my son Garik gave a TED Talk at TEDxNCSU (North Carolina State Univ), a fifteen minute lecture which he entitled, “How LSD changed my [...]

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Curling

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|February 27, 2011

Not what you were expecting, was it? You open up a business blog only to find an article about that relatively minor winter sport we only get to see once every four years during the Olympics, two dozen ESPN channels not withstanding. But curling it is, and for good reason. [...]

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Process, Process, Process

Leo Sadovy
Leo Sadovy|January 5, 2011

Taking location as a given for the time being, the next most important factor in creating value in your organization are your processes. The mission of your front line people is to create value for the customer, whether that be a service, a retail experience, product production, or on a [...]

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