Bob Lewis

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Bob Lewis is a senior management and IT consultant, focusing on IT and business organizational effectiveness, strategy-to-action planning, and business/IT integration. And yes, of course, he is Digital. He is the author of a Keep the Joint Running: A Manifesto for 21st Century Information Technology and There's No Such Thing as an IT Project: A Handbook for Intentional Business Change and several other titles as well as and over 1,000 articles, many of them on CIO.com and InfoWorld. He can also be found on his blog, Keep the Joint Running. Bob’s CIO Survival Guide column earned him a 2025 AZBEE award and a 2024 Eddie award.

Articles by Bob Lewis

Modernizing the IT portfolio: A primer

When making decisions about the IT portfolio, CIOs must balance the need to add new-and-cool stuff with the need to avoid obsolescing components that are no less important for having stopped being new and cool years ago.

Bob Lewis

Articles by Bob Lewis

Modernizing the IT portfolio: A primer

‘Chronodebt’: The lose/lose situation few CIOs can escape

AI benefits don’t scale

Return-to-office mandates: Didn’t we already fight this war?

Political engineering 101: The biz-savvy IT leader’s survival guide

Decision-making 101: How to get consensus right

How CIOs can survive CEO tech envy

The lazy CIO’s guide to better IT investment

The dirty little secret of ‘quick win’ IT

The dirty work of IT leadership: Dealing with malfeasance

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