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 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 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 | October 16, 2012 | 1 Comment
A significant uptick in dissatisfaction with service providers is one of the trends I have noticed in the last six months. Many CIOs are either actively switching service providers, in the evaluation process of switching or questioning the skills and abilities of their service provider as a significant issue hampering their success. Is there something [...]
Category: 2013 Economy Lean Thinking Management Strategic planning Tags: CIO Leadership, cost cutting, Economic conditions, IT Leadership, Operational Leadership, Outsourcing, personal musing, Personal Observation, Strategy and Planning, symposium
by Mark P. McDonald | June 13, 2012 | Submit a Comment
What happened to the commons? You know the global commons of information, connectivity and creativity that was supposed to be created by the world-wide-web. I was reading Charles Leadbeater’s book, WE-THINK, as I saw him speak at a recent conference. The book, written in 2008, took me back to the good old days when WWW [...]
Category: Digitalization Economy Technology Tags: Economy, Internet, personal musing, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | April 20, 2012 | 2 Comments
Digital technologies are opening new avenues for companies to disrupt competitors and markets. The prior post outlined three dimensions of disruption: access, enterprise economics and performance. This post focused on performance as a dimension of digital disruption. Performance can be defined along a range of dimensions from price/performance, or technical measures, to operational and financial [...]
Category: Digitalization Economy Strategic planning Tags: Business Strategy, Dgigitalization, digitization, Strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | April 17, 2012 | 1 Comment
Digital technologies open new avenues for companies to disrupt competitors and markets. The prior post outlined three dimensions of disruption: access, enterprise economics and performance. This post focused on enterprise economics as a dimension of digital disruption. Digital technologies disrupt economics at multiple levels by upsetting the balance between volume and value by creating a [...]
Category: Digitalization Economy Strategic planning Tags: Business Strategy, Digitalization, digitization, Strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | April 12, 2012 | 5 Comments
Digital technologies are opening new avenues for companies to disrupt competitors and markets. The prior post outlined three dimensions of disruption: access, enterprise economics and performance. This post focused on performance as a dimension of digital disruption. Theses posts reflect my personal thinking about how digital technology will evolve the nature of competition and value [...]
Category: Digitalization Economy Strategic planning Tags: Business Strategy, Digitalization, digitization, Strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | January 20, 2012 | 5 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
