by Jack Santos | January 25, 2012 | 2 Comments
I love how the fragmentation of communication is actually moving away from appropriate use, and moving to duplicative use, amplifying the total volume of messages on the planet — while real content or (more accurately) unique thought is growing in proportion to population growth – no small number by itself. This has probably been a [...]
Category: Cloud Future Predictions Tags: Cloud, consumerization, culture, IT relevance, mobility, network, Predictions, Wireless
by Jack Santos | September 23, 2011 | Comments Off
Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop It Timothy Leary said it in a slightly different way… It’s that time of year when parents and school systems start publicizing “Turn off TV” month. Our local paper ran a piece on it – and in some cases it has been extended to ALL electronics (TV, radio, video games, [...]
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Category: Fun Mobility Strategic Planning Tags: consumerization, culture, IT relevance, Predictions, security, Strategy
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 IT Governance Managment governance management 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 Managment Mobility Strategic Planning management Tags: career, CIO, consumerization, culture, Externalization, gearheads, IT relevance, management, mobility, Outsourcing, Predictions, Strategy
by Jack Santos | August 5, 2011 | Comments Off
Back from the Gartner Catalyst conference last week. I was on stage six times over the course of four days, not to mention the numerous customer meetings we had. Two things stuck out in my mind from this years conference: “Mobility” is the new “Cloud” and Everyone is worried about IT Our mobility sessions (chaired [...]
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Category: Cloud Managment Mobility Wireless management Tags: 3g, Cloud, gearheads, IT relevance, management, mobility, Wireless
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 Managment management Tags: career, CIO, IT relevance
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 [...]
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Category: CIO issues Externalization IT Governance Mobility Strategic Planning Wireless governance management security Tags: CIO, consumerization, culture, Externalization, IT relevance, management, Strategy
by Jack Santos | November 23, 2010 | Comments Off
The conversations I have been having with IT executives have spiked in one important area: outsourcing and vendor management. Certainly, cloud (as a form of outsourcing) is contributing to that. But it is also becoming apparent that we are seeing a tidal wave in the making. That tidal wave involves the role of IT, and [...]
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Category: CIO issues Externalization IT Governance Managment Offshore Outsourcing Strategic Planning Vendor Contracts career governance management Tags: career, CIO, Externalization, IT relevance, management, Mergers, Outsourcing, Strategy
by Jack Santos | November 19, 2010 | 4 Comments
I have a thesis that the recent history of bubbles are not just reflective of economic “irrational exuberance”, but in fact reflect social reality – the ability of individuals to influence and communicate with each other. The “bubble” is just the final effect, the consequence of that behavior. Our ability to influence and communicate has [...]
Category: Cloud Externalization Future Managment Predictions Strategic Planning economy management Tags: Cloud, IT relevance, Predictions, Strategy
by Jack Santos | November 11, 2010 | Comments Off
A few months back I overhead this description of where IT stood in the organizational hierarchy (this organization happened to be a hospital): It got me thinking about the differences between IT Leaders research and IT1 (sometimes called IT Professionals) research at Gartner. As a CIO, my view was somewhat different than that stated [...]
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Category: CIO issues Healthcare Managment governance management Tags: career, CIO, gearheads, Healthcare, IT relevance, management
