by Andrea Di Maio | September 26, 2012 | Comments Off
Last week I attended an event organized by Gartner Executive Program for our CIO clients in a very nice location, in the middle of a famous wine districts in the country. There, I led a session about the euro crisis, sharing the scenario planning exercise that David Furlonger and I did at the end of [...]
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Category: Europe and IT Tags: euro crisis
by Andrea Di Maio | July 25, 2012 | 1 Comment
People have been following with a moderate sense of worry the financial crisis unfolding in Greece and other European countries, Despite how dramatic the situation has become in Greece, many have remained in denial about the possibility of a serious contagion to other vulnerable countries. However things have suddenly changed, as Valencia, Murcia, Catalonia and [...]
Category: e-government Europe and IT open government data smart government Tags: euro crisis, government 2.0, open government, smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | April 17, 2012 | Comments Off
In this blog I have covered the research that we have been doing on a possible euro crisis, including the development of alternative scenarios and comments about readiness of enterprises and widely different approaches to preparedness (or lack thereof). I have been saying that we do not do predictions about the outcome, but just urge [...]
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Category: Europe and IT IT management Tags: euro crisis
by Andrea Di Maio | March 8, 2012 | 3 Comments
Yesterday at the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London I had the opportunity to address the audience with a 10 mins piece in the euro crisis and its ramifications for IT, followed by a full session for a smaller audience. During the general session I asked how many of the attendees (over 200 CIOs from [...]
Category: Europe and IT Tags: euro crisis
by Andrea Di Maio | February 22, 2012 | Comments Off
Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with somebody from a large IT vendor, who was interested to know what we were hearing from our clients after the webinar that we run and the many research notes that we published between December and February. I had to admit that I had very few inquiries and [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | December 19, 2011 | 1 Comment
In previous posts, research notes and press releases both I and my colleague David Furlonger have been warning our clients about the need for CIOs and IT leaders to start preparing for the consequences of a euro crisis. Understandably many people are in denial about the possibility that the euro breaks up, or that their [...]
Category: Europe and IT IT management Tags: euro crisis
by Andrea Di Maio | December 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
Over the last few days we had a good coverage of the research note (client access required) that David Furlonger and I wrote about the euro. The press in the UK (e.g. the Financial Times and Computer Weekly ), in Germany (e.g. Silicon.de and Computerwoche) and in France (Le Monde Informatique) picked on our press [...]
Category: Europe and IT IT management Tags: euro crisis
by Andrea Di Maio | December 9, 2011 | Comments Off
As part of the research that my colleague David Furlonger and I are doing about the IT impact of the euro crisis, we are gathering anecdotal evidence of preparedness (or lack thereof) in IT organizations around the world. It would be very helpful if you would fill this very short questionnaire to give us a [...]
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Category: Europe and IT IT management Tags: euro crisis
by Andrea Di Maio | December 7, 2011 | 5 Comments
Before joining Gartner I spent a few years at the European Commission, where I was lucky enough to work on one of the most exciting projects at the time, which was the implementation of the single European currency. I was tasked with helping understand and prepare for the IT impact of the change, ranging from [...]
Category: Europe and IT IT management Tags: euro crisis
