by Jack Santos | November 1, 2012 | Comments Off
Made it home from our US Orlando Symposium conference last week – expecting a quick turnaround to the Symposium conference in Brazil. My plans were interrupted by Sandy. Some of my colleagues never made it back home until after the storm. I rode it out in my antique home – which in the past few [...]
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Category: Cloud Nexus Social Media Strategic Planning Symposium Work Place Tags: career, consumerization, culture, information, management, Social media
by Jack Santos | September 18, 2012 | Comments Off
I have a confession to make. Having been in IT since I was knee high to a grass hopper, I often feel somewhat responsible for its failings. Almost Al Gore-like “I helped invent the Internet” kind of responsible. After all – I was there at NCC in 79 when Xerox introduced the Star (precursor to [...]
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Category: career CIO issues IT Governance management Managment practitioner Tags: career, CIO, consumerization, gearheads, management, Outsourcing, privacy, security, Strategy
by Jack Santos | July 31, 2012 | Comments Off
Dan Ariely, who has been a guest of ours in prior webinars, has really gotten some great press on “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty. How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves”. This is a must read for any CSO or any IT person involved with security. Actually a must read for just about anyone. [...]
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Category: career Innovation management Managment practitioner security Tags: career, Catalyst-NA, culture, innovation, management, security
by Jack Santos | July 17, 2012 | Comments Off
All the wires are hot about a new role for Paul Maritz at VMware….probably with a spinoff. It reminds me of a time when corporate shenanigans in a company I was with resulted in some major cutbacks – including at senior levels. Imagine my shock at the time when hearing about a recently let-go divisional [...]
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Category: career Catalyst 12 CIO issues Fun Tags: career, Catalyst-NA, CIO, management
by Jack Santos | June 4, 2012 | 2 Comments
One of my colleagues (Michael Disabato) is fond of the quote by Helmut Von Moltke that “no plan ever survives first contact with the enemy.” That is certainly our experience with IT and business planning. So it’s a delight to read Helio Fred Garcia’s “The Power of Communication” and his take on business planning and [...]
Category: career CIO issues management Managment Tags: career, Catalyst-NA, CIO, culture, gearheads, IT relevance, management, 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 [...]
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Category: career Healthcare management Managment practitioner Social Media Tags: career, culture, Healthcare, management
by Jack Santos | September 7, 2011 | Comments Off
Those of you that know me, or have followed my blog (which, admittedly, has been rather intermittent lately) know my background: Right up through the ranks..programmer, manager, VP, CTO, CIO..and now IT research (how did that happen?). It was pretty clear to me, especially as a CIO, that an undue amount of “influence” was often [...]
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Category: CIO issues governance IT Governance management Managment practitioner Tags: career, CIO, gearheads, IT relevance, management, Strategy
by Jack Santos | August 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
The Professional Effectiveness group in Gartner (which I am a member of) recently hosted a webinar on “The Future of IT Work”. We had three questions for the audience. Let’s analyze those: This was really important to us; you see, when Gartner bought Burton and renamed that product line IT1, we kept the team – [...]
Category: CIO issues Cloud Externalization Future management Managment Mobility Strategic Planning Tags: career, CIO, consumerization, culture, Externalization, gearheads, IT relevance, management, mobility, Outsourcing, Predictions, Strategy
by Jack Santos | March 22, 2011 | Comments Off
The informal talk at a recent CIO awards conference was about a perceived increase in CIOs losing their jobs. I don’t have any hard data on that, but here’s my take on CIO turnover. The street line is that CIO’s average 3 years in a position. I actually think it maybe be closer to 5. [...]
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Category: CIO issues Tags: career, CIO, management
by Jack Santos | March 18, 2011 | Comments Off
Sitting in a meeting with some old friends and peers, it struck me about how much IT is changing – in ways that many of us CIOs wanted it to. For CIOs, there was always this ‘second class” citizen status in an enterprise reflected in our conversations: getting a “seat at the table”, “aligning IT [...]
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Category: CIO issues management Managment Tags: career, CIO, IT relevance
