Entries Tagged as '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 [...]
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 | 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 [...]
Category: career CIO issues Externalization governance IT Governance management Managment Offshore Outsourcing Strategic Planning Vendor Contracts 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 economy Externalization Future management Managment Predictions Strategic Planning 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 [...]
Category: CIO issues governance Healthcare management Managment Tags: career, CIO, gearheads, Healthcare, IT relevance, management
by Jack Santos | November 9, 2010 | Comments Off
Monday’s Wall Street Street Journal was rife with news of the effects of QE2 (Quantitative Easing 2 – the new Fed money program), the outcry by growing economies, and a dissenting op-ed piece by one of the Fed Board of Governors. That dissenting governor, Kevin Warsh, makes the case that he is concerned about Fed [...]
Category: Cloud economy Externalization Offshore Outsourcing Strategic Planning Tags: consumerization, economy, IT relevance
by Jack Santos | September 21, 2010 | Comments Off
A long time ago when I was a programmer trainee, my friend Ken <last name to remain anonymous> and I were in a company meeting. We sat together listening to a diatribe of “here’s what’s happening” from company management, which ended with “that’s how we see it”. Ken got up in from the crowd and [...]
Category: career CIO issues Strategic Planning Uncategorized Tags: career, CIO, culture, gearheads, IT relevance, management, Strategy
by Jack Santos | August 25, 2010 | Comments Off
I spent this past week locked in a conference room going over research material. One of our research approaches is to take client comments, feedback, interview results, and other client input, and try to see patterns that are emerging within our client’s businesses and in the industry. We do this through a rigorous process of [...]
Category: Predictions Strategic Planning Tags: IT relevance, Predictions
by Jack Santos | June 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
It’s time I take on an issue that is just under the surface whenever speaking to IT groups. Nick Carr touched upon it with his classic “IT Doesn’t Matter” tome. But , IMHO, he didn’t really get at the core issue – one, that frankly, has happened on my watch, during my career. For the [...]
Category: CIO issues Future Predictions Tags: career, consumerization, IT relevance, Predictions
