by Mark P. McDonald | May 30, 2010 | 1 Comment
Memorial Day is a national holiday in the U.S when we set aside time to remember the sacrifices of the men and woman who have given their lives to their country. Many other countries have similar days of remembrance and this post is in no way intended to say that those days are any less [...]
Category: 2010 CIO Leadership Personal Observation Strategy Tags: 2010 planning, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, personal obseravtion, value delivery
by Mark P. McDonald | May 27, 2010 | 2 Comments
The very notion of what IT is and how it works in transition driven by economic, business and technical forces. One of those forces is the accelerating degree to which the traditional IT stack is transforming from private to public infrastructure. That transition has profound impacts on what we consider IT and how we value [...]
Category: 2010 Personal Observation Tags: CIO strategy, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | March 22, 2010 | 2 Comments
Today is the first day of Gartner’s 2010 CIO Leadership forum in the U.S. More than 250 CIOs have come together in Phoenix for this event. The European event in London at the end of April already has more than 175 CIOs registered to attend. Theme of this year is “Raising the bar for business [...]
Category: 2010 Strategy Tags: 2010, Business Leadership, CIO Leadership, IT and Business, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
Productivity drives growth in the economy and in your market value. The shift from a focus on cost cutting to raising productivity is among the three transitions CIOs reported in their responses to the 2010 CIO Survey. Please see the highlighted links for more detail. This post concentrates on how IT raises productivity, a question [...]
Category: 2010 Economy Leadership Strategy Technology Tags: Business Management, Business Process, Economic Recovery, Economy, IT strategy, Strategy
by Mark P. McDonald | March 10, 2010 | 5 Comments
The headline highlights an old and ongoing argument within IT that assumes that the business is perpetually disappointed by IT and that IT is consistently undervalued in the enterprise. While the argument is an old one, the basic assumption for more than 30 years as the business and IT needed each other and therefore they [...]
Category: 2010 CIO Leadership Personal Observation Strategy Tags: Business Management, Business Strategy, CIO Leadership, IT and Business, Strategy
by Mark P. McDonald | March 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
We are nearing the end of the first quarter of calendar 2010 and a few things are becoming apparent. 2010 is a year of transition as the global economy begins to recover, strategies turn to a focus on growth and new technologies work their way into the market place. It is a year of transition [...]
Category: 2010 Technology Tools web 2.0 Tags: 2010, 2010 planning, CIO Leadership, Economic Recovery, Management, web 2.0
by Mark P. McDonald | March 8, 2010 | 5 Comments
The economic transition from recession to recovery is changing business expectations on the role of IT. In the recession, IT was a major force in cutting enterprise and IT costs. As the economy turns from recession to recovery, leaders are changing their view on IT as a source of enterprise productivity. This opens the door [...]
Category: 2010 CIO Economy Strategy Tags: 2010, Business Leadership, Business Management, IT and Business, IT Leadership, Strategy
by Mark P. McDonald | February 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
About 18 months ago the idea of decoupling was all the rage. Decoupling was the concept that the economic fortunes of Asia and the West were no longer strongly intertwined. Stock market analysts and economists postulated that the US and Western Europe would go into recession, but China and its domestic growth rate would keep [...]
Category: 2010 Economy Strategy Tags: 2010 planning, Business Leadership, Economic conditions, Economic Recovery, Economy, Strategy
by Mark P. McDonald | February 3, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Making the connection between IT activities and business value requires having the information and communicating it effectively. The blog post immediately before this one concentrates on creating a summary action plan that assembles the information needed to demonstrate IT’s value. This post concentrates on how you use the information to reveal the plan in a [...]
Category: 2010 Leadership Strategy Tools Tags: 2010 planning, IT management, Strategy, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | February 1, 2010 | 4 Comments
It’s a person and your people. “People are our most important … (asset, resource, strategy, etc)” This is one of the more familiar phrase executives and managers will say, particularly in light of the past year when people, their ideas and their personal sacrifices contributed so much to company survival. 2009 was a year where [...]
Category: 2010 Leadership Tags: 2010, CIO Leadership, Economic Recovery, IT management, IT organization, Leadership
