by Mark P. McDonald | December 31, 2012 | Submit a Comment
This December the blog has asked a number of questions about the future of IT. The approach seeks to avoid didactic statements about the future of IT – answers without questions. To date the three questions have generated good discussion and its time for the final question: Where do we, as technology professionals, need to [...]
Category: 2013 Economy IT Epic Journey Leadership Tough Questions Tags: Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | December 27, 2012 | 2 Comments
2012 has been one of extremes from a continued deepening of the global financial crisis, to the U.S. National Elections; to the rapid take-up of digital technology this year has been one of transition. “The more things change the more things seem to stay the same,” to paraphrase Yogi Berra. From and IT perspective, the [...]
Category: 2013 Amplifying the Enterprise Digital Edge Digitalization Leadership Re-imagine IT Strategy Tags: 2013 Planning, Digital Edge, IT and Business, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | December 21, 2012 | 2 Comments
This is the third question in the December Friday question series. The two prior questions looked at “Is the IT organization, as we currently know it, worth saving?” on December 7th and “What are the reasons we need IT in the future?” on December 14th. So far there is some great discussion and comments so [...]
Category: 2013 Economy IT Epic Journey Leadership Tough Questions Tags: Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | December 19, 2012 | 1 Comment
It is the holiday season and the time for samplers. Recently a friend sent me a candle sampler as a holiday gift – a box of assorted chocolates. That got me thinking about the collection of ideas that we offer to each other and exchange. So here is a sample that I offer to you [...]
Category: 2013 Amplifying the Enterprise Management Strategy Tags: 2013 Planning, IT and Business, IT Leadership, IT management, Technology Leadership, Value of IT
by Mark P. McDonald | December 17, 2012 | 2 Comments
Digital technologies are worth less individually. They are worth everything when connected to enterprise information and transaction capabilities. That is a rather esoteric statement, so consider a mobile phone with apps. Alone the phone is helpful, you can call people, consult maps, etc. But that phone and those apps are worth more when they are [...]
Category: 2013 Digital Edge Digitalization Technology Tags: 2013 Planning, Digital Edge, Digitalization, digitization, IT Leadership, IT management, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | December 14, 2012 | 3 Comments
Today is the second friday in December and time for another question in the discussion series about asking the right questions about IT. Last week’s question “Is the IT organization, as we currently know it, worth saving?” yielded some interesting points. This week the question is: What are the reasons we need IT in the future? Notice [...]
Category: 2013 Economy Innovation IT Epic Journey Leadership Tough Questions Tags: Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | December 12, 2012 | 1 Comment
Last month I had the opportunity to catch up with Todd Jackson the CIO at the City of Westerville Ohio and received an update on Westerville Ohio’s Community Data Center. If you recall from a prior post, the City of Westerville, located outside Columbus Ohio, decided to build a community data center providing services for [...]
Category: Economy Innovation Leadership Technology Tags: Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | December 10, 2012 | 1 Comment
Simple – Powerful – Provocative, simply the best book on customer experience in 2012! Who do you want your customers to become? is one of those rare books that bridges the gap between current practice and future innovation. Michael Schrage has taken a provocative and penetrating look at the changing nature of customers, their experiences, [...]
Category: Book Review Customer Experience Digitalization Tags: Book Review, customer centric, customer experience
by Mark P. McDonald | December 5, 2012 | 13 Comments
Everywhere I look, including on this blog, people are telling each other what they need to do to be successful. “Use this process,” “create this type of strategy,” “apply this tool,” etc., the constant drum roll of recommendations can leave you numb and confused. Numb to the extent that the sheer volume of advice pummels [...]
Category: 2013 Leadership Management Strategy Tough Questions Tags: 2013 Planning, Business Leadership, Business Management, Business Strategy, Strategy, Strategy and Planning, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | December 4, 2012 | 3 Comments
A prior post introduced the idea that we need to ask the right questions about IT before we can consider how to lead and change IT. This is the first in a series of questions posted each Friday in December. Here is the list of questions: December 7th: Is the IT organization, as we currently [...]
Category: 2013 Leadership Management Strategy Tough Questions Tags: 2013 Planning, Business Leadership, Businesss Strategy, Strategy and Planning, Technology Leadership
