Archives for April, 2012
by Jack Santos | April 26, 2012 | Comments Off
I was recently invited to speak on a CIO panel about innovation. My panel colleagues included some senior IT leaders for major healthcare and financial service organizations. Now if you have read my innovation research, you’ll know that it focuses on innovation processes, and inclusion. Well managed innovation is casting a wide net for ideas [...]
Category: CIO issues Innovation management Managment Social Media Strategic Planning Tags: CIO, consumerization, culture, IT relevance, management, Strategy
by Jack Santos | April 13, 2012 | 2 Comments
Sat in on a session at our local SIM chapter last night. SIM is one of those professional groups that have been with me almost my whole career (ACM is another). Ina Kamenz, the CIO at Thermo Fisher Scientific, gave a talk on hiring and retention issues and her POV. Pretty good, Ina. I sat [...]
Category: CIO issues Mobility Strategic Planning Wireless Tags: CIO, consumerization, culture, IT relevance, management, mobility, Predictions, Strategy, Wireless
by Jack Santos | April 12, 2012 | 1 Comment
Most consumers have wondered why e-book pricing was so close to bound copy pricing. I know I have. Eliminate the warehouses, trees, delivery trucks, stores, shelf space, clerks – and you are left with author payments, product development, marketing, and electronic delivery. The cost structure is probably half of a real-world product (I don’t have [...]
Category: Applications economy Externalization Future Predictions Social Media Strategic Planning Tags: consumerization, culture, economy, Predictions, Strategy
by Jack Santos | April 10, 2012 | Comments Off
One of the research areas that we cover in Gartner’s Professional Effectiveness (for Technical Professionals) practice is the change in behavior that has to take place in organizations – and more specifically as it pertains to each and every one of us as IT practitioners. Sometimes this gets reflected as corporate missteps, or even ingrained [...]
Category: career Healthcare management Managment practitioner Social Media Tags: career, culture, Healthcare, management
