by Mark P. McDonald | January 20, 2012 | 3 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 18, 2012 | 2 Comments
Last year, CIOs responding to the Gartner Executive Programs CIO Agenda indicated that it was time to re-imagine IT. Re-imagining IT meant recognizing that business priorities and technologies had changed enough for IT to rethink its role in the enterprise and its value proposition. For some this meant adopting cloud technologies to reallocate resources from [...]
Category: 2012 Leadership Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, Strategy and Planning, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | January 6, 2012 | Submit a Comment
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
by Mark P. McDonald | January 3, 2012 | 3 Comments
Every year is important and pundits, myself included, contribute to the annual strategy and planning cycle that is based on the premise that the coming year must be the most important year. That position makes sense when you consider that without a compelling plan for ‘next year’ the CIOs and IT organization will not get [...]
Category: 2012 Leadership Management Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, Business Leadership, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, Strategy, Strategy and Planning, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | November 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
Gartner’s first Fall Symposia and ITXpo in Barcelona is complete. I am writing this blog post on my iPad while I am flying to Frankfurt to start the trip to Australia and the Symposium there. It has been a rather full week with hundreds of presentations, meetings, more than 50 CIO workshops, thought leadership presentations, [...]
Category: 2012 CIO Economy Innovation Leadership Management Personal Observation Strategic planning Tags: 2012 planning, CIO Leadership, IT and Business, Strategy and Planning, symposium
by Mark P. McDonald | October 21, 2011 | 4 Comments
Re-imagine IT: Lead from the Front was the theme of this year’s Gartner Symposium in Orlando. This blog has featured re-imagining IT, but after four days and literally hundreds of conversations the full scope of re-imagination and the courage of those who dare to re-imagine is becoming clear. CIOs and IT executives who came to [...]
Category: 2012 Innovation Management Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, CIO Leadership, RE-imagine IT, symposium, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | October 14, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Most likely you are reading this sitting down. If you could indulge me for a few minutes I would like to illustrate the need for IT to change in a physical way. While you are sitting, put both feet down flat on the ground. Great Now pick your heels up off the ground. Notice any [...]
Category: 2012 IT Governance Leadership Management Tags: 2012 planning, Change leadership, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, Small IT
by Mark P. McDonald | October 7, 2011 | Submit a Comment
The IT organization structure is more than boxes in an organization chart. The IT organization and the decisions it contains have a significant influence on IT performance, capability and process. How you are organized also represents the way you think about IT. Leaders are thinking about their organizations in new ways, replacing monolithic IT structures [...]
Category: IT Governance Leadership Lean Thinking Management Re-imagine IT Small IT Tags: CIO Leadership, IT organization, Lean Thinking, Small IT
by Mark P. McDonald | October 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
Experience is the new goal for products and services. Experience replaces traditional goals related to feature and functionality. Factors that can readily be copied. In their place, experience seeks to create a broader set of value that cannot be readily substituted and gets better through repeated use. Why? Well, in a world of global supply, [...]
Category: IT Governance Leadership Re-imagine IT Tags: CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, IT strategy, RE-imagine IT
by Mark P. McDonald | October 3, 2011 | 5 Comments
Personally we have never been more social. Online we use social media to connect with friends, share ideas, mobilize support and express our selves. Professionally we remain socially isolated behind firewalls and management’s concerns about relinquishing control while retaining responsibility. The irony is that while organizations are working feverishly to participate in social media marketing, [...]
Category: Book Review Leadership Management Social Media Social Organization Strategy web 2.0 Tags: CIO Leadership, social media, Social Organization, Strategy and Planning, web 2.0
