Entries Tagged as '2011 Planning'
by Mark P. McDonald | March 18, 2011 | 6 Comments
Re-imagining IT involves changing a few fundamental assumptions and factors that reset the context of IT, its operations and contribution to the business. Re-imagining reflects the reality of the technical, business and management changes facing CIOs. The cloud, drive for growth and need to accelerate cycle times all require keeping much of what makes IT [...]
Category: 2011 Leadership Management Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, Business Leadership, Business Strategy, CIO Leadership, IT strategy, RE-imagine IT, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | March 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
I am flying back from Dubai as I write this post following Gartner’s first CIO Leadership Forum held in the Gulf Region last week. It was a successful event by just about every measure: attendance, attention and engagement. The Gulf Region is one of the most dynamic areas of the world and one that often [...]
Category: 2011 CIO IT Governance Leadership Management Personal Observation Strategy Technology Tags: 2011 Planning, Change leadership, CIO Leadership, Events, Gulf Region, IT and Business, Leadership, Personal Observation, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | February 17, 2011 | 2 Comments
Imagination creates new ideas based on asking what could be. Re-imagination opens new opportunities by asking what would be possible if? Its time to re-imagine IT, by that I mean that its time to recognize that some of the fundamentals of IT are changing and those changes open the door to new possibilities. Re-imagination is [...]
Category: 2011 CIO Innovation IT Governance Leadership Management Re-imagine IT Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, CIO Leadership, IT organization, IT strategy, RE-imagine IT
by Mark P. McDonald | February 15, 2011 | 4 Comments
A message from our sponsors. The theme of this year’s Gartner CIO Leadership Forum is Creative Destruction. That sounds like a strange title for a leadership conference as on the surface it asks people to tear down what they have build. After all, isn’t leadership about building for future success and what about destruction, haven’t [...]
Category: 2011 CIO Leadership Management Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, CIO Leadership, Management, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | February 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
Remember the global economy right before the global financial crisis? Oil prices were hitting nominal records, food prices were climbing and other commodities were driving resource-based economies forward. Inflation was nowhere to be seen, but it was suspected around the corner. Then the global financial crisis took away demand and seemed to drive us to [...]
Category: 2011 Economy Leadership Lean Thinking Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, Business Strategy, CFO, Economy, Finance
by Mark P. McDonald | January 26, 2011 | 2 Comments
According to CIOs responding to this year and past Gartner CIO surveys, CIO IT budgets remain flat and below their 2008 historical high. It will be sometime before CIO it budgets return to real growth. This creates a seeing paradox as IT suppliers project continued growth in the corporate IT market segment. So if budgets [...]
Category: 2011 CIO Tags: 2011 Planning, Value of IT, Vendors
by Mark P. McDonald | January 24, 2011 | 3 Comments
Last week Gartner announced the results of Gartner’s 2011 CIO Survey and Agenda under the theme of reimagining IT. The idea behind this theme is that CIOs and IT leaders have an opportunity to use new business priorities and technologies to create value in new ways The idea of reimagination comes from entertainment industry which [...]
Category: 2011 Leadership Re-imagine IT Strategic planning Tags: 2011 Planning, IT and Business, IT Leadership, IT strategy, Reimagine IT
by Mark P. McDonald | January 21, 2011 | 4 Comments
Its time to reimagine IT as business and technical changes require CIOs to answer new questions rather than just find new answers to old questions. That is what Dave Aron and myself found as we completed a worldwide CIO survey from September to December 2010. The survey includes responses from 2,014 CIOs representing more than [...]
Category: 2011 Leadership Re-imagine IT Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, CIO, CIO Leadership, IT and Business, IT strategy, RE-imagine IT
by Mark P. McDonald | January 18, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Strategic inflammation is the degree of operational disruption that comes from per suing new strategies that are largely the same as the old strategy. Inflammation is an appropriate term here as a source of inflammation comes from repeatedly doing the same thing in the same place. Strategic inflammation is one of the signs of weak [...]
Category: 2011 Signs of weak management Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, Business Strategy, Strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | January 14, 2011 | 2 Comments
Most resolutions are affirmative statements that have an implied negative statement. I am going to lose weight, I am going to exercise more, etc. In IT, there are a myriad of these things, as achieving new goals requires stopping things as well as starting them. Many of these things are attitudes and behaviors so I [...]
Category: 2011 Leadership Tags: 2011 Planning, Leadership, Management, Personal Observation
