Mark McDonald

I have had the priviledge to talk with you all through this blog for almost a year and more than 160 posts.  That is a lot of dialogue and I thank you for it.   Anything of that size contains good things and other things that perhaps are best unread.  This post highlights entries related to issues CIOs raised at last weeks Gartner Symposium in Orlando.  The posts are all written at different times throughout the past year and are offered as a sort of anthology

How do you complete 2009 and what should I prepare for in 2010?

• October 1 is the first day of the last quarter of 2009

• CIOs See the future clearly strategically and operationally

• The Planning Context for 2010 will be challenging.

• Nothing is broken, but is anything right, framing the 2010 budget discussions.

• Activities versus results: the difference makes all the difference.

How has the economic crisis influenced IT?

• Has the recession bombed your IT back into the Data Processing Age.

• The question every CIO must answer

• Muda Matters:  Lean Thinking and the sources of waste applied to IT

• Don’t spread IT like Peanut butter.

• Twelve things every IT professional needs to know about their business.

What are the things I need to watch out for in the future?

• McKinsey the 10 trends you have to watch and what they mean for IT.

• Tech Savvy CEOs, they are hear and you are not going to like it.

• Signs of weak management

• Do you have an emerging capacity gap?

• Asymmetric technologies can confound IT leaders and Finance.

• The 12 things that every business needs to know about IT

These are a few of the posts written over the past year that I hope you will find helpful as you move from completing 2009 to creating an enviornment for success in 2010.

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