Entries Tagged as '2010'
by Mark P. McDonald | January 21, 2010 | 3 Comments
If you are what you measure, then many IT organizations tell their business peers that IT is a non-strategic back office function. Metrics such as systems availability, project status and help desk backlogs re-enforce the separation of IT form the rest of the enterprise. The lack of business relevant metrics and measures that communicate the [...]
Category: Leadership Strategy Tools Tags: 2010, 2010 planning, Business Leadership, Business Management, CIO Leadership, Finance, IT and Business, IT management, product innovation, Strategy and Planning, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | January 20, 2010 | 3 Comments
“I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.” J. Wellington Wimpy. The quote may be unfamiliar to people who have not seen the Popeye cartoons. The quote may seem unfair as a way to describe the business/IT relationship regarding benefits realization, but the ethos behind it illustrates the need to change attitudes toward [...]
Category: 2010 CIO Economy Leadership Tags: 2010, Economy, IT and Business, IT Leadership, IT management
by Mark P. McDonald | January 19, 2010 | 15 Comments
These years 2010 Gartner CIO Survey captured the priorities and plans of more than 1,500 CIOs. The CIOs reported that they see 2010 as a time of transition across three areas: Economically from recession to recovery and growth Strategically from a focus on cost cutting efficiency to raising enterprise and IT productivity Technology transition from [...]
Category: 2010 budgets CIO Economy Leadership Tags: 2010, 2010 planning, CIO Leadership, IT budgets, IT Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | January 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
Productivity is a hot topic for investors, business executive and the media. Productivity is one of the reasons for the recent stock market run up. Productivity is a leading indicator for earnings and therefore share price. Business executives are interested in productivity for much the same reason The media is watching productivity as higher productivity [...]
Category: CIO Economy Strategy Tags: 2010, 2010 planning, Business Strategy, IT and Business, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | January 6, 2010 | 5 Comments
It’s the season for kickoff meetings where executives and their teams review their achievements in 2009 and communicate the strategy for 2010. A common feature of these meetings is the CEO’s talk where they provide an executive view of these accomplishments and statements about their criticality to the future strategy. These talks give participants a [...]
Category: 2010 Leadership Tags: 2010, Business Leadership, Business Management, Business Strategy, CEO
by Mark P. McDonald | January 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
First, Happy New Year and best wishes for a 2010 may it be a successful year for you, your company and family. Its time for you and your teams to get a little amnesia at the start of the New Year. Particularly this year given that 2009 was the toughest year in at least the [...]
Category: 2010 CFO CIO Leadership Tools Tags: 2010, Business Leadership, CIO, CIO Leadership, Economic Recovery, IT and Business, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | December 31, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Yogi Berra is attributed as saying “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” That does not stop people from making predictions and rather than predictions, lets say here are a few things we might see in 2010. 2009 was a tough year for enterprise IT between budget cuts, new pending regulation and the [...]
Category: 2010 CIO Economy Leadership Tags: 2010, 2010 planning, Business Strategy, CIO, personal musing
by Mark P. McDonald | December 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
I pose the following questions because as the first decade of the second millennia is coming to a close. This will lead to a cascade of analysts and pundits asking what happened at the beginning of the Internet age. Look for cover stories emblazed with 2010 coming to a publication near you. The Wall Street [...]
Category: CFO CIO Economy Leadership Strategy Tags: 2010, Business Management, CIO Leadership, Economic conditions, Economy, IT budgets, IT Leadership, IT management, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | December 7, 2009 | 1 Comment
Managing resources has been the core of IT for the past 40 years. IT management started by managing scarce technical skills transforming manual functions into automated processes. Resource management has evolved into demand management disciplines including program/project management; PMO, chargeback and IT service catalogues. IT resources and budgets form the basis for judging IT’s success [...]
Category: 2010 Economy Strategy Tags: 2010, 2010 planning, CIO Leadership, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | December 3, 2009 | Submit a Comment
I am taking a few days off from the Blog in order to complete the analysis of the 2010 CIO Survey. The 2010 CIO agenda report will be released in early January, but that requires buckling down on some tasks right now. It will just be for a day or two, and I look forward [...]
Category: Fun Tags: 2010
