Entries Tagged as 'Business Strategy'
by Mark P. McDonald | January 16, 2012 | 1 Comment
Technology is becoming more important than IT. Now that may sound strange, after all what is the difference between technology and IT. For years the answer was, not much. Corporate technology centered on automating corporate business processes such as ERP, CRM, SCM, PLM, etc. These technologies requires corporate IT to acquire, install, tailor and operate [...]
Category: 2012 Innovation Re-imagine IT Strategic planning Technology Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, Business Strategy, eme, Strategy, Technology Leadership, Value of IT, web 2.0
by Mark P. McDonald | November 21, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Digital technologies are changing reality in ways that we cannot predict and at an ever increasing pace that leave even the digital generation in the dust. Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAffee discuss this in their new book Race Against the Machine (link to a review) and offer the prediction that we have not really seen [...]
Category: 2012 Strategy Technology Tags: Business Strategy, digitization, IT strategy, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | November 17, 2011 | 3 Comments
Business relevance and alignment is a persistent issue in IT and a challenge for CIOs. In this year’s CIO agenda presentations at Gartner Symposium these issues were discussed and measured based on CIO business priorities and plans. The 2011 CIO survey looked at this issue and we described it in an analogy that IT believes [...]
Category: 2012 CFO CIO IT Governance Leadership Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, Business Strategy, IT and Business, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | November 1, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Throughout much of the market turmoil the news, discussion, uncertainty and doubt have all been aimed at one audience – traders. Traders are those who earn their income from moving money across financial markets or follow the financial markets. Traders make money when there is turbulence as change and volatility move stock prices generating ‘market [...]
Category: Economy Leadership Management Strategy Tags: Business Leadership, Business Management, Business Strategy, Economy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | October 20, 2011 | 3 Comments
Today I have delivered a talk at Gartner Symposium in Orlando on the subject of Digitization: the next wave. Here are a few thoughts: The definition of digitization is changing and creating new ways of thinking about business, innovation and opportunity. The standard and first definition of digitization centers on the representation of things with [...]
Category: 2012 Strategy Technology Tags: Business Strategy, digitization, IT strategy, Technology, Technology Leadership
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 Strategic planning marketing Tags: Book Review, Business Strategy, Marketing, Strategy and Planning, Technology Leadership, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | August 17, 2011 | 2 Comments
I was on a conference call the other day discussing how we were going to handle a selection process. The discussion was heated, as there were multiple good ways to handle the process. One of the participants however was adamant about only one thing, “what ever we do, the process has to be transparent. I [...]
Category: Leadership Management Strategy Tags: Business Management, Business Strategy
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 IT Governance Innovation 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 IT Governance Innovation Leadership Lean Thinking Management Technology Tags: Business Leadership, Business Strategy, CIO strategy, Leadership, Strategy and Planning
