by Mark P. McDonald | July 29, 2011 | 1 Comment
Perspective, where you stand, determines much of your perception, how you see the world. Asking yourself the question, is it me or is it we, when taking information on board, considering alternatives, making decisions, evaluating an implementation keeps you and your team grounded. Perspective and perception change constantly in modern business. Competitors become collaborators, enemies [...]
Category: Leadership Management Personal Observation Tools Tags: Leadership, Management, personal musing
by Mark P. McDonald | July 27, 2011 | Submit a Comment
What is the minimum set of technologies an individual needs to enhance their personal performance? It’s difficult to answer this question in the context of a modern organization endowed with a portfolio of applications, information and infrastructure. Much of that technology exists to make the company and it’s processes more effective. Even so called personal [...]
Category: Innovation Management Personal Observation Technology Tools Tags: personal musing, Technology, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments
People were astounded when Apple released the iPad 2 within a year of the iPad’s debut. They are further confused as the new iPhone 5 is expected and could be accompanied by a free iPhone – the 3GS. There is even talk of an iPad 3 before the year is out. What is going on [...]
Category: Innovation marketing Tags: Business Strategy, consumer, Consumerization of IT, iPad, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | July 22, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Technology is a complex and confusing industry and therefore subject to miss-information either by accident or by plan. This post deals with the impact of that complexity and how it has led IT to be influenced by tactics based on creating fear, raising uncertainty and creating doubt in IT capabilities and capacities. A surprising amount [...]
Category: CIO Leadership Management marketing Personal Observation Signs of weak management Tags: CIO Leadership, personal musing, Signs of weak management, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | July 19, 2011 | 1 Comment
If you want to understand someone you need to do more than walk a mile in their shoes, you need to try and do what they do. The other day I had lunch with a former CIO who has recently been promoted to run a business unit in a mid-sized medical device company. The CIO [...]
Category: CIO IT Governance Leadership Personal Observation Tags: IT and Business, IT Leadership, IT management
by Mark P. McDonald | July 17, 2011 | 6 Comments
Yeah right! This mantra has been something we all have heard and may have said in response to the gap between business and IT. The statement is used as a way for IT to define its way out of being a support function and into being a mission critical function. The problem is that just [...]
Category: IT Governance Leadership Management Uncategorized Tags: IT and Business, IT Leadership, IT management, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | July 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
Hunter and Westerman’s book came out before we started blogging. The Real Value of IT is one of the books that should be part of the CIO and IT leadership team’s tools. Here is the original review that can also be found at Amazon.com What is the business value of IT? This is a perennial [...]
Category: Book Review IT Governance Management Strategic planning Strategy Tags: Book Review, Business Management, Tools, Value of IT
by Mark P. McDonald | July 13, 2011 | 3 Comments
Blogging Note: Like Gary Trudeau I am taking a week off from blogging, but I would like to share a past post that may be helpful. The original posts were made in the Fall 2009, but much of their points remain true. I have made links to the original posts to make it easy to [...]
Category: IT Governance Lean Thinking Management Re-imagine IT Tags: IT Leadership, IT management, Lean Thinking, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | July 11, 2011 | 3 Comments
Blogging Note: Like Gary Trudeau I am taking a week off from blogging, but I would like to share a past post that may be helpful. The origional posts were made in the Summer of 2009, but much of their points remain true. I have made links to the original posts to make it easy [...]
Category: 12 things business should know about IT IT Governance Leadership Re-imagine IT Strategy Technology Tags: 12 things business should know about IT, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, IT and Business, IT Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | July 7, 2011 | 2 Comments
One of the reasons CIOs face the need to re-imagine IT is that most companies are pursuing a dual track strategy calling for growth and cost cutting. These two goals are often seen as being mutually exclusive – creating a duel rather than a dual set of requirements. You are either supporting growth or you [...]
Category: IT Governance Management Re-imagine IT Tags: CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, cost cutting, IT organization, IT strategy, RE-imagine IT, Strategy and Planning
