Entries Tagged as 'CIO-Forum-NA'
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 26, 2012 | Submit a Comment
After an inspirational story of leadership and building high performing organizations by Pete Goss, the CIO leadership forum kicked off with opening sessions that concentrated on the theme of Amplifying the Enterprise. During the sessions, the audience of more than 300 CIOs provided their initial thoughts on the role of IT, their priorities and key [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise CIO Leadership Strategic planning Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, Business Leadership, CIO-Forum-NA, Strategy and Planning, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | March 25, 2012 | 1 Comment
Sunday afternoon starts the last in this spring’s series of CIO leadership forums. With more than 400 CIOs registered to attend, this year’s forum series has brought more than 1,000 CIOs together in sessions held in Dubai, London and now Phoenix. The focus of the forum remains on the idea of Amplifying the Enterprise, which [...]
Category: 2012 CIO Leadership Tags: 2012 planning, Business Leadership, CIO Leadership, CIO-Forum-NA, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | March 19, 2012 | 4 Comments
There is a renewed discussion of the CIO reporting relationships. It is a discussion that is sure to generate debate as who you report to is important both personally and professionally. The perceived increase in CIOs reporting to CFO’s is a topic that goes through this cycle much like call of Paul Revere in the [...]
Category: CFO CIO IT Governance Leadership Tags: CFO, CIO, CIO Leadership Forum, CIO-Forum-NA, IT organization, Leadership, reporting relationships
by Mark P. McDonald | March 6, 2012 | 6 Comments
Today is the main kick off of Gartner’s 2012 CIO Leadership Forum in London. More than 270 CIOs and IT leaders have come together to work on the issues facing their organizations and IT. The themes of this year’s event include: Creating compelling value for customers and citizens, driving growth Raising productivity and eliminating cost [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise CIO Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CIO Leadership Forum, CIO-Forum-NA, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | February 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
Today is the first day of the season of Gartner’s 2012 CIO Leadership Forum Series. Over the next few weeks CIOs from around the world will meet to share their views, work with peers and explore the future of business and technology. The theme of this year’s events is Amplifying the Enterprise – which is [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise CIO Leadership Tags: 2012 planning, CIO Leadership, CIO Leadership Forum, CIO-Forum-NA, Events
by Mark P. McDonald | January 20, 2012 | 5 Comments
For the past 10 years, cost has been the mantra facing CIOs and IT organizations. Cost benefits are a factor in just about every major technology wave in the past 10 years. Cloud, the current theme, is presented as a cost play so is sourcing, services, virtualization, open source — if I did not know [...]
Category: 2012 Economy Leadership Management Strategic planning Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, CIO-Forum-NA, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | January 12, 2012 | Submit a Comment
Amplifying the enterprise involves turning up the value of technology in the enterprise. Eliminating distortion is one of the ways that technology amplifies the enterprise. Distortion refers to the internal complexities; costs, duplication and redundancies that make it harder to get work done. Think about the things that get in the way, make it difficult [...]
Category: 2012 Strategy Technology Tools Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CIO-Forum-NA, cost cutting, Economic Recovery, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
In times of economic adversity, conventional wisdom calls for conserving cash and capital. Firms have amassed record amounts of cash as governments face deep cuts in the fourth year of five-year plans. Leaders know that the future requires re-imaging the enterprise rather than repeated waves of belt tightening. Nowhere is this more evident than in [...]
Category: 2012 budgets Economy Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CFO, CIO strategy, CIO-Forum-NA, cost cutting, Economic conditions, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | January 6, 2012 | 2 Comments
One of the issues facing CIOs in 2012 is the apparent conflict between growing revenue and cutting cost. While IT may be asked to do both, in reality plans and priorities fall heavily on the cost cutting side limiting IT’s impact and value. Customer Experience brings a different perspective to issues of revenue and cost. [...]
Category: 2012 CIO Management Strategic planning Strategy Technology Tags: Business Leadership, CIO Leadership, CIO-Forum-NA, customer, customer centric, Innovation, IT strategy, Strategy
