by Mark P. McDonald | August 31, 2009 | 2 Comments
Over the summer McKinsey published their top 10 trends for the next year or so in Harvard Business Review in July 2009 http://tinyurl.com/l2ooj3. This post discusses the trend related to government’s role in the economy. A bigger role for government – an accelerating trend It is natural to see the global financial and then economic [...]
Category: 2010 Strategy Tags: 2010 planning, IT and Business, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | August 30, 2009 | 5 Comments
Over the summer McKinsey published their top 10 trends for the next year or so in Harvard Business Review in July 2009 http://tinyurl.com/l2ooj3. This post discusses the trend related to declining levels of consumer and public trust in business. Trust in business running out – an accelerating trend Trust shapes every relationship. It is the [...]
Category: 2010 Strategy Tags: 2010 planning, IT and Business, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | August 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
Over the summer McKinsey published their top 10 trends for the next year or so in Harvard Business Review in July 2009 (Link to HBR site). This post discusses the trend related to resources. Resources feeling the strain – Stable Commodity prices and demand pressures were a hallmark of the world about a year ago [...]
Category: 2010 Strategy Tags: 2010 planning, Business Management, Information, IT and Business, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | August 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
Business Network Transformation, edited by Jeffrey Word, is a compendium of articles on the ideas of business networks, sponsored by SAP. Make no mistakes this book is market-iterature – a cross between marketing and book publishing, but once you know that there are some interesting ideas here. Just know what you are reading and take [...]
Category: Book Review Leadership Tags: Book Review, Business Leadership, ERP, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | August 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
Over the summer McKinsey published their top 10 trends for the next year or so in Harvard Business Review in July 2009 http://tinyurl.com/l2ooj3 Given McKinsey’s role in the executive suite and influence in setting business dialogues, I would like to offer some commentary on these trends and how they relate to the challenges facing the [...]
Category: 2010 Strategy Tags: 2010 planning, IT and Business, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
Predictable Irrational is the primary source book for a range of business books on behavioral economics now flooding bookstores. Dan Ariely’s readily accessible, insightful and interesting book is the grandfather of popular behavioral economics and highly recommended. The issue of economic behavior becomes critical given the emergence of new social technologies and customer driven processes [...]
Category: Book Review Economy Tags: Book Review, economics, New economy
by Mark P. McDonald | August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
In the U.S., the debate is over national healthcare. A central issues is the balance between cost and availability. It’s a balancing act that business executives and the CIO engage in every year when they determine the IT budget. In the national healthcare debate the issue is about having a fixed budget in order to [...]
Category: 2010 budgets CFO CIO Leadership Strategy Tags: Business Leadership, IT and Business, IT budgets, IT Leadership, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | August 20, 2009 | Submit a Comment
There has been much made about the new U.S. Federal CIO and CTO advocating the adoption of more commercial practices in IT. At the risk of being controversial, I am wondering if this is not a simple prescription that sounds good in a press release but may fall flat in terms of its execution. I [...]
Category: CIO Economy Leadership Personal Observation Strategy Tags: IT Leadership, IT management, IT reform, IT strategy, Public Sector
by Mark P. McDonald | August 19, 2009 | 3 Comments
With all the talk about ‘green shoots’ of economic recovery its time to ask if these shoots are real or just the immediate result of significant stimulus. The buzz is postive, particulary as companies start to report changes based on YO-YO metrics that show improvement ‘year over year’. The point of this entry arose from [...]
Category: 2010 Economy Personal Observation Tags: Business Leadership, Economic Recovery, Personal Observation
by Mark P. McDonald | August 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
Let’s table the technology discussion for just a moment as we have a guest post from Frank Kenney a research director at Gartner. He maintains his own blog at http://blogs.gartner.com/frank_kenney/ and authored this post about one of the most important, yet sometimes neglected relationship between the CIO and Chief Corporate Counsel. Every CIO must ask [...]
Category: 2010 CIO Leadership Strategy Tools Tags: Business Leadership, Technology Leadership, Technology Torts
