by Andrea Di Maio | November 17, 2011 | 3 Comments
I am getting close to the end of the Gartner Symposium in Gold Coast and a few conversations with clients have been about shared services and consolidation. Australia has quite a tradition with shared services, as many states have implemented and run shared services for quite a few years. Today many governments around the world [...]
Category: cloud shared services in government Tags: consolidation, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 15, 2011 | Comments Off
One of my one-on-one meetings yesterday at the Gartner Symposium in Gold Coast was about the role of the CIO in a government organization. The client was complaining that she does not sit in the governance board of the organization, as she reports to a Deputy Director who is in charge of administrative services (including [...]
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Category: IT management Tags: symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 15, 2011 | Comments Off
After a few one-on-ones with attendees at the Gartner Symposium in Gold Coast, Australia, I am pleased to report that people over here seem to have a slightly more cynical view about cloud than some of their colleagues in Europe or the US. There does not seem to be anybody who is obsessed with idea [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | November 14, 2011 | 2 Comments
Yesterday I did my session on Smart Government at the Gartner Symposium in Gold Coast Australia. As I expected, government officials as well as vendors on this side of the world feel less the pain that some of their colleagues in the US or in Europe are feeling, with budget cuts and a sluggish economic [...]
Category: smart government Tags: symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 14, 2011 | Comments Off
I recently returned from the Gartner Symposia in Orlando and in Barcelona, and I am now at the Gartner Symposium in Gold Coast. In both Orlando and Barcelona I had the opportunity to discuss cloud computing and the use of social media in government, as well as how to use and manage technology to make [...]
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Category: cloud smart government web 2.0 in government Tags: symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 10, 2011 | Comments Off
During the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona I had a chance to talk with a few clients from three of the so-called PIIGS countries (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain), and in particular those that have either for IMF and EU bail out help. Two conversations, both with people having central IT policy and planning responsibility, [...]
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Category: smart government web 2.0 in government Tags: symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
While at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona, I had a stream of meetings with government clients from several European countries who are contemplating the development of private clouds. In some cases, these clouds are seen as the end result of a consolidation process resulting from a decision to centralize IT infrastructure across multiple entities, while [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | November 9, 2011 | Comments Off
Yesterday my colleague Dave Aron and I had the pleasure to interview Gerry Pennell, the CIO for the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, at the Gartner European Symposium in Barcelona . He spoke about his challenges, how they are closer than one might think to those that CIOs face in any complex organization, [...]
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Category: cloud smart government Tags: smart city, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
My busy first day at the Gartner European Symposium in Barcelona ended with a quite interesting round table with a few clients on the topic of social media in government. Almost immediately we ended up discussing about the distinction between internal and external use of social media. One attendee shared that, despite the success their [...]
Category: social networks in government web 2.0 in government Tags: social media, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 7, 2011 | 4 Comments
This morning, at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona, I ran a Net IT Out session on cloud computing in government. This was meant to be a rapid fire session where an analyst briefly introduces a subject and some of the Gartner’s positions, and then leaves as much time as possible to a Q&A. The room [...]
