by Mark P. McDonald | September 17, 2012 | 1 Comment
Last Friday I had the honor of speaking at the Fisher Center for the Management of Information Technology at the Haas School of Business located at UC – Berkley. The event awarded the first Fisher – Hopper Prize for Lifetime Achievement in CIO Leadership. It was a great event and marked a watershed in the [...]
Category: Leadership Management Re-imagine IT Strategy Technology Tags: CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, IT Leadership, Leadership, Strategy, symposium, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | September 7, 2012 | 20 Comments
In a prior post — When Frugality Fails — the topic was what do you do when just cutting costs is not enough to define success. This topic looks at what a decade of flat IT budget investments really means. IT budgets have been essentially flat according to the results of the Gartner Executive Programs [...]
Category: 2013 Amplifying the Enterprise budgets Re-imagine IT Strategic planning Tags: 2013 Planning, Finance, Future of IT, IT budgets, Strategy and Planning, symposium
by Mark P. McDonald | August 14, 2012 | 2 Comments
The question gets at the issue of legacy applications, information, infrastructure, etc. Current IT philosophy, management practices and thinking is organized around the idea of building new things, adopting new technology, correcting the past, in other words viewing what you have now as a slag heap rather than a source of future value. That my [...]
Category: Re-imagine IT Strategy Technology Tags: IT Leadership, IT management, IT strategy, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | July 2, 2012 | 4 Comments
While Europe finance ministers deal with national debt crisis, CIO’s and CFO’s are ignoring their organizational geek debt crisis. Measure your organization’s geek debt by the degree to which existing systems, operations, and capabilities limit future potential. We often think and call our existing systems in more noble terms – legacy. But in reality it [...]
Category: budgets Distortion Re-imagine IT Technology Tags: CFO, cost cutting, IT budgets, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | May 7, 2012 | 1 Comment
Appland exists where the availability of technology solutions exceeds your organizations business capability. Technology becomes greater than IT in Appland as commercially accessible technologies create new innovation and advantage opportunities for organizations. The expanding scope of Appland is fueling a new generation of technology savvy business executives who expect more than just IT. The relationship [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise Re-imagine IT Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, IT and Business, IT Leadership, RE-imagine IT, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | May 2, 2012 | Submit a Comment
The relationship between IT functionality and business capability sets the context for technology in a business. The prior post “Technology, IT and business in the lands of Apps, Gaps and equilibrium” introduced a way of looking at that that relationship. This post concentrates on the assumptions and fundamentals associated with IT living in the land [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise Re-imagine IT Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, IT and Business, IT Leadership, RE-imagine IT, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | April 30, 2012 | 4 Comments
Take a step back and consider the fundamental assumptions behind IT and it become easy to see IT’s current challenges and future failures. One of those assumptions is the relationship between IT functionality and business capability. Understanding the context behind that relationship and its implications is crucial to leading IT in the future. The figure [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise Management Re-imagine IT Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, IT and Business, IT Leadership, RE-imagine IT, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | March 30, 2012 | 1 Comment
Yesterday final CIO Leadership Session finished in Phoenix wrapping up sessions in Dubai and London. Each session concentrated on regional challenges from expanding growth in the gulf, to addressing macro economic realities in Europe and leading in times of transition in the Americas. Regardless of location, CIOs around the world face a new set of [...]
Category: 2012 CIO Cloud Customer Experience Distortion Re-imagine IT Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, Business Leadership, CIO Leadership, CIO-Forum-NA, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | March 8, 2012 | 2 Comments
IT solutions are complex, cross functional, intricate and aspirational. It is no wonder that getting the right scope, requirements and solution is a persistent challenge. Frankly, IT solutions rarely meet these challenges, particularly in new areas and even more specifically on the first try. Project over-runs, weak benefits realization, poor quality, late deliveries, mulligans (do [...]
Category: Innovation Re-imagine IT Technology Tags: Business, IT strategy, Technology, Value of IT
by Mark P. McDonald | January 30, 2012 | 9 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
