by Mark P. McDonald | November 4, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Best Practices are Stupid 40 Ways to Out Innovate the Competition is the subject of one of Steve Shapiro’s innovation tips and the title for this book. Rather than ridicule current approaches to innovation, Shapiro takes a comprehensive and compelling look at the next set of things companies need to do to innovate. Shapiro points [...]
Category: Book Review Innovation Tools Tags: Book Review, Innovation, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | October 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
Great by Choice is the second/better half of How the Mighty Fall Jim Collins extends and deepens the body of knowledge around the fundamentals of success. Great by Choice represents the second half of Collin’s earlier book on company failure – How the Mighty Fall. While that earlier book concentrated on factors that drive failure, [...]
Category: Book Review Economy Innovation Leadership Management Strategy Tags: Book Review, Business Leadership, Strategy, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | October 21, 2011 | 4 Comments
Re-imagine IT: Lead from the Front was the theme of this year’s Gartner Symposium in Orlando. This blog has featured re-imagining IT, but after four days and literally hundreds of conversations the full scope of re-imagination and the courage of those who dare to re-imagine is becoming clear. CIOs and IT executives who came to [...]
Category: 2012 Innovation Management Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, CIO Leadership, RE-imagine IT, symposium, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | October 18, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Talk about social media and people like to talk about the technology, the tools, the applications as if that is all that is required to become a social organization. If only it were that easy. Social media is not like other technologies. The value of social media technology does not rest in its features and [...]
Category: Innovation Leadership Management Social Media Social Organization Strategy Tags: Leadership, Personal Observation, social media, Social Organization, Strategy and Planning, web 2.0
by Mark P. McDonald | September 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
Escape Velocity by Geoffrey Moore addresses the fundamental issue of driving deep innovation and value realization in your company not by some new silver bullet but by the hard work required to free your company’s future from its past. Moore’s central premise in this well written, actionable and highly recommended book, is that companies have [...]
Category: Book Review Innovation Leadership Management marketing Strategic planning Tags: Book Review, Business Strategy, Marketing, Strategy and Planning, Technology Leadership, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | September 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
I was working with a colleague this week and we were sitting across a conference room table. He had is MacAir out as we were working. Me, I was working on my iPad 1.0, yes an iPad One, which is in a Gorilla mobile case from Joby and accompanied by an Apple wireless keyboard. The [...]
Category: Innovation Personal Observation Technology Tags: Apple, iPad, PC, Personal Observation, Technology, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | August 18, 2011 | 4 Comments
If anyone wondered if tech was undergoing dramatic change, then this week should remove all doubt. The nature of the tech industry is going through a series of changes that are re-imagining tech, what it is, how its purchased etc. This week’s actions by Google and HP mark two significant steps in re-imagining the tech [...]
Category: Economy Innovation Personal Observation Technology Tags: Economy, personal musing, Powershift!, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | August 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
Every organization knows about its front office that generates revenue and its back office that operates those processes. Few recognize the capabilities within the space between – the middle office – capabilities that determine your effectiveness and comparative advantage. Executives know how to improve the performance of their front and back office processes. They change [...]
Category: CIO Innovation Leadership Management Strategic planning Strategy Tags: Business Strategy, IT strategy, mid-office, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | August 5, 2011 | Submit a Comment
An accretive leader is one that allows individual changes to build up, one on top of the other, with little consideration of the cumulative effect of change on the firms. Not every leader is an accretive leader but every organization faces the challenge of managing accretive change. Management systems have implicit incentives for accretive change [...]
Category: Economy Innovation IT Governance Leadership Lean Thinking Management Technology Uncategorized Tags: Business Leadership, Business Strategy, CIO strategy, Leadership, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | August 1, 2011 | 10 Comments
Leaders are responsible for raising performance through having a vision and creating successful change. When this happens, leaders are praised and rewarded for creating new processes, products and organizational capability. Leaders are highlighted for the change they created and the value inherent in the ‘more’ their company is all about. Change is vital to an [...]
Category: Economy Innovation IT Governance Leadership Lean Thinking Management Technology Tags: Business Leadership, Business Strategy, CIO strategy, Leadership, Strategy and Planning
