by Mark P. McDonald | March 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
A while back I wrote a few posts about how the “Changing nature of change” and it discussed how traditional change management techniques were evolving in the face of new models and ideas about personal participation and responsibility. Change used to be driven top down with the idea that if I lead enough, communicated enough [...]
Category: Change on the cheap Leadership Tools Tags: Business Leadership, Business Management, Change leadership, Change Management, CIO Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | February 8, 2011 | 4 Comments
I have written about my personal experience with the iPad since its release in April. The last post I asked about great applications and you all recommended the Good Reader for PDFs and some other great tools. Thanks for that. Now I wanted to ask about the accessories that go with the iPad and its [...]
Category: Technology Tools Tags: iPad, personal musing, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | December 17, 2010 | 2 Comments
An Executive Vice President at a company I visited recently asked me the question above. He went onto explain, “You know the technologies that everyone said a few years back would really change the way we were supposed to work.” I took deep breath and came up with the following things. Please feel free to [...]
Category: Innovation Technology Tools Tags: Innovation, Technology, Technology Leadership, Value of IT
by Mark P. McDonald | December 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
Accelerating the delivery of new or improved solutions is one of the key sources of IT value and the importance of application development. Methods and techniques for building solutions has also been the subject of intense focus from the original creation of structured methods to current innovations in agile development. While there has been significant [...]
Category: Applications Tools Tags: IT Leadership, Management, personal musing, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | November 29, 2010 | 6 Comments
In the six months that I have had my iPad it has enhanced my life more than changing or revolutionizing it. The device has extended the reach of technology from simply capturing and manipulating information to making it part of the way I work and working in new ways. Sure the more I work with [...]
Category: Technology Tools Tags: product innovation, Technology, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | November 22, 2010 | 2 Comments
That sounds like a personal question. It is not. Just an observation that size of your presentation deck tells more about you than you might imagine. This is particularly important as we enter a period of intense communications as we consolidate 2010 achievements and finalize 2011 plans. This observation came up when we were discussing [...]
Category: CIO Signs of weak management Tools Tags: Business, CIO Tools, IT and Business, Leadership, Management, Signs of weak management, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | October 15, 2010 | Submit a Comment
This summer Gartner Executive Programs and MIT Sloan School’s Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR) published a report on the Advantages and Economics and Value of Reuse. (Executive Summary) The report is based on a study of more than 1,500 companies to understand the impact of reuse. The joint study defined reuse as using [...]
Category: Technology Tools Tags: cost cutting, Finance, Operational Leadership, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | October 13, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Customer values and intentions have changed as business leaders shift from trying to get back to the way things were before the recession to taking the turn to a future based on they way things are now. One of the funny things that has happened on the way to the turn is the changing nature [...]
Category: Economy Strategy Tools Tags: 2011 Planning, Business Leadership, customers, Markets, Strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | October 12, 2010 | Submit a Comment
As the annual planning process starts its important to recognize that it’s the CIO’s responsibility to work with executives in a way that builds their trust and support for IT and it’s strategy. That comes from speaking with executives in a way they understand rather than trying to ‘teach them IT.’ Speaking in a way [...]
Category: Leadership Tools Tags: 2011 Planning, Change leadership, IT strategy, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | October 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
Powershift refers to some posts related to the tangible differences between corporate and consumer technology and the implications of these differences on the technology industry. This post provides an example of the differences and the gap between the technology we get at work and the technology we prefer to work with in our daily lives. [...]
Category: Applications Tools Tags: consumer, Operational Leadership, Powershift!, symposium, Technology, Tools
