Entries Tagged as 'culture'
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 | August 5, 2011 | Comments Off
Just for the record, here’s my picture: I have been told more than a few times that I am good looking, and people always stop me for autographs. Sorry, I am married. (BTW, only one of these statements is true) So now that I am past introductions, I am hoping this blog post throws off [...]
Category: Cloud Future IAM Mobility security Wireless Tags: consumerization, culture, management, mobility, privacy, security, Wireless
by Jack Santos | July 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
This past week, I have had to deal with one of those inevitable consequences of living – dealing with the death of someone close. But even then, it was hard to get away from the effects of IT. Digitization seems to crop up in the most unusual places. Like, for instance, at a cemetery. Sure, [...]
Category: Applications Mobility Wireless Tags: 3g, consumerization, culture, mobility, Wireless
by Jack Santos | June 3, 2011 | Comments Off
The recent spat of bad news about Nokia brings pause. Two years or so ago I met with the CIO and staff, and presented them with dire predictions. If it wasn’t mid-winter, they would have thrown me in the lake. Even then I was prepared for an ice bath. But there was no question that [...]
Category: Mobility Wireless Tags: 3g, culture, mobility, network, Wireless
by Jack Santos | May 17, 2011 | Comments Off
175 Years ago (in 1836), Texas beat the Mexican army to become an independent state….and eventually a US state. Today, the Alamo (the battle loss that led to the war win) is a car rental agency, and a tourist attraction. The “I don’t knows” (abbreviated phonetically in the post title) are the segment of the [...]
Category: Applications Cloud Fun Mobility Wireless Tags: consumerization, culture, mobility, Wireless
by Jack Santos | May 11, 2011 | Comments Off
I attended a Babson College’s Center for Information Management Studies event yesterday that has been long a staple on my diet of how to stay current. Since coming to Gartner, my role has changed from currency sink to currency source. Last year, Chris Howard and I tagged team a “Cloud Tutorial” event which was very [...]
Category: CIO issues IT Governance management Managment Mobility security Wireless Tags: consumerization, culture, management, mobility, privacy, security, Strategy
by Jack Santos | April 28, 2011 | Comments Off
The Journal (and for those of you that don’t know what I am referring to, go read someone else’s blog) had a recent section on IT that was interesting, and a good overview of the executive POV. But one of the things I see fundamentally missing in their viewpoint, and in many discussions I have [...]
Category: career CIO issues Cloud Externalization governance IT Governance management Managment Offshore Outsourcing Strategic Planning Tags: CIO, consumerization, culture, Externalization, gearheads, management, Outsourcing
by Jack Santos | March 14, 2011 | Comments Off
Kudos to the folks at Computerworld for having the strength of character to not have a huge wireless infrastructure at their Premier 100 event last week in Palm Springs. CIOs liked it. A lot. It was an opportunity, for 2 days, to focus. Unlike many events that greet you with a bank of PCs, and [...]
Category: CIO issues Managment Tags: 3g, CIO, culture, management, network, Wireless
by Jack Santos | March 9, 2011 | Comments Off
I have had an interesting juxtaposition of meetings these past few weeks. I meet with a group of CIOs where the zeitgeist is one of being part of the business – to the point of being a major part of the revenue stream (Boeing is doing that with software-based service options). With the CIOs, being [...]
Category: CIO issues Externalization governance IT Governance management Mobility security Strategic Planning Wireless Tags: CIO, consumerization, culture, Externalization, IT relevance, management, Strategy
by Jack Santos | January 25, 2011 | 1 Comment
I was recently asked about an update to a popular blog post I did over a year ago on my antics around my home theater setup. Six months ago, Comcast was proposing a defense to its NBC purchase that said something like “Don’t worry about internet TV – that won’t compete with our content anytime [...]
Category: Fun Future Predictions Tags: culture, Predictions, UI
