by Mark P. McDonald | March 6, 2012 | 6 Comments
Today is the main kick off of Gartner’s 2012 CIO Leadership Forum in London. More than 270 CIOs and IT leaders have come together to work on the issues facing their organizations and IT. The themes of this year’s event include: Creating compelling value for customers and citizens, driving growth Raising productivity and eliminating cost [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise CIO Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CIO Leadership Forum, CIO-Forum-NA, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | March 5, 2012 | 5 Comments
Tomorrow represents the official start of the 2012 CIO Leadership Forum in London. More than 200 CIOs from across Europe are converging on the Sofitel at T5 in Heathrow for two days of working sessions. Given the issues and challenges facing us all and particularly in Europe, it is shaping up to be a very [...]
Category: 2012 Leadership Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CIO Leadership, CIO Leadership Forum, IT Leadership, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | March 2, 2012 | 5 Comments
Where is your human middleware? Every organization has it, but few people see it for what it is – a sign of distortion. I first heard the term ‘human middleware’ when I was talking with a group of CIOs and a CIO from an insurance company commented that there organization did not really transform until [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise Business Process Distortion Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, Business Leadership, Business Management, Business Process, distortion
by Mark P. McDonald | February 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
Today is the first day of the season of Gartner’s 2012 CIO Leadership Forum Series. Over the next few weeks CIOs from around the world will meet to share their views, work with peers and explore the future of business and technology. The theme of this year’s events is Amplifying the Enterprise – which is [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise CIO Leadership Tags: 2012 planning, CIO Leadership, CIO Leadership Forum, CIO-Forum-NA, Events
by Mark P. McDonald | February 8, 2012 | 3 Comments
Amplifying the enterprise is the theme for this year’s CIO agenda reflecting the expanding role of technology in the enterprise and its role in raising the power of enterprise strategies and performance. The notion of technology as an enterprise amplifier goes beyond traditional notions of IT and the administration/automation of back office processes. Technologies such [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise Strategic planning Strategy Tools Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, IT and Business, Strategy, Strategy and Planning, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
Every business book you read says that you need to have ‘executive sponsorship’ for any major initiative. Fail to involve the executives and you are likely to fail. That advice has become so prevalent that it is almost worthless. Getting executive sponsorship is not what matters; it’s the quality of the sponsorship that makes all [...]
Category: 2012 Change on the cheap IT Governance Leadership Management Personal Observation Signs of weak management Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, Leadership, Management, Personal Observation, Signs of weak management
by Mark P. McDonald | January 30, 2012 | 8 Comments
What is one of the hottest roles in IT? What is the role that is in demand and will play a critical role in the future? I believe it is the business analyst. But not the type of business analyst we have today. That type of business analyst was a junior position in IT. The [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise Leadership Re-imagine IT Tags: 2012 planning, IT organization, IT Roles
by Mark P. McDonald | January 24, 2012 | 3 Comments
In a prior post I raised the point of what happens when frugality fails? This leads to the question of where IT goes from here. While the future of IT is an ongoing concern, re-imagining that role starts by recognizing your IT mindset and the mindset of other enterprise leaders. What do you think when [...]
Category: 2012 Technology Tags: IT strategy, Strategy and Planning, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | January 20, 2012 | 3 Comments
For the past 10 years, cost has been the mantra facing CIOs and IT organizations. Cost benefits are a factor in just about every major technology wave in the past 10 years. Cloud, the current theme, is presented as a cost play so is sourcing, services, virtualization, open source — if I did not know [...]
Category: 2012 Economy Leadership Management Strategic planning Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, CIO-Forum-NA, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | January 18, 2012 | 5 Comments
Last year, CIOs responding to the Gartner Executive Programs CIO Agenda indicated that it was time to re-imagine IT. Re-imagining IT meant recognizing that business priorities and technologies had changed enough for IT to rethink its role in the enterprise and its value proposition. For some this meant adopting cloud technologies to reallocate resources from [...]
Category: 2012 Leadership Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, Strategy and Planning, Technology, Technology Leadership
