Entries Tagged as 'CIO 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 | 6 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
by Mark P. McDonald | September 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
Organizations are complex making it difficult to assign specific actions to specific results. In an environment of ambiguity executives and managers fall back in financials and assigning credit to the people closest to observable success. They cannot go deeper because as soon as they move away from the immediate source it becomes difficult to separate [...]
Category: 2012 Leadership Management Re-imagine IT Strategic planning Tags: 2012 planning, CIO Leadership, RE-imagine IT
by Mark P. McDonald | September 22, 2011 | 1 Comment
This is a question that CIOs ask either formally in search of a performance yardstick or informally as they ponder their own career and success. I have written a few posts in the past about this issue and the other day I came across a quote that provides another dimension worth thinking about. “I knew [...]
Category: CIO Leadership Management Tags: CIO, CIO Leadership, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | September 12, 2011 | 5 Comments
IT trends and transformations over the past decade have been driven by a common theme: reducing cost. CIO-led initiatives for outsourcing, consolidation, shared services, applying lean manufacturing principles, have all revolved around the need to take costs out of IT. All of this cost cutting must have worked to one degree or another as IT [...]
Category: 2012 CIO IT Governance Leadership Lean Thinking Management Re-imagine IT Small IT Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, IT Leadership, IT management, Small IT
by Mark P. McDonald | September 6, 2011 | Submit a Comment
The U.S. Labor Day weekend marks the official end of summer and the starting gun for FY 2011 close and planning for 2012. Unless you are deploying a new solution this month, your organization is going to finish the year with the capabilities it already has—there simply is not enough time for new capabilities to [...]
Category: 2012 Leadership Management Re-imagine IT Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, CIO Leadership, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning, Value of IT
