Entries Tagged as 'Economic conditions'
by Mark P. McDonald | October 16, 2012 | 1 Comment
A significant uptick in dissatisfaction with service providers is one of the trends I have noticed in the last six months. Many CIOs are either actively switching service providers, in the evaluation process of switching or questioning the skills and abilities of their service provider as a significant issue hampering their success. Is there something [...]
Category: 2013 Economy Lean Thinking Management Strategic planning Tags: CIO Leadership, cost cutting, Economic conditions, IT Leadership, Operational Leadership, Outsourcing, personal musing, Personal Observation, Strategy and Planning, symposium
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 | November 9, 2011 | 3 Comments
Occupy Wall Street is just the latest in a series of protests against the idea that businesses exist only to create economic returns for their shareholders. The idea that business should do more for society is appealing and requires more than light current forms of corporate charity. Two articles this year in the Harvard Business [...]
Category: Economy Innovation Leadership Management Personal Observation Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, comprehensive value, Economic conditions, Economic Recovery, Economy, Innovation, Strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | November 6, 2011 | Submit a Comment
With macroeconomics and international finance dominating world news its easy to lose site of the fact that organizations cannot wait on the sideline for things to get better they have to take action and make the best of a difficult situation. That is the challenge facing CIOs and IT leaders attending this year’s Gartner European [...]
Category: 2012 Economy Leadership Management Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, Business Leadership, Economic conditions, IT Leadership, Strategy and Planning, symposium
by Mark P. McDonald | October 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee have created a powerful, concise and informative discussion of the impact of technology on employment, income distribution and macroeconomics. Do not be fooled by the title, Race Against the Machine is not a neo luddite treatise on the evils of automation and technology. The title is more about generating buzz [...]
Category: Book Review Economy Strategy Technology Tags: Book Review, Business Leadership, Economic conditions, Economic Recovery, Economy, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | August 10, 2011 | Submit a Comment
I have been traveling the last two weeks overseas. When I left we had the debt ceiling crisis, the US had a AAA rating and the stock market was above 12,000. Now, well you know what’s happened. The question is, not what has happened so much as what are we going to do now. I [...]
Category: Economy Leadership Tags: Economic conditions, Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | March 7, 2011 | 2 Comments
A progressive and comprehensive look at a future capitalist system. Umair Haque’s book makes an argument for what 21st capitalism should look like in the face of the economic, social, environmental and technical challenges we all face. Haque points out that the open-ended consumption model we have today is not sustainable and certainly crazy to [...]
Category: Book Review CFO Economy Innovation Management marketing Tags: Book Review, Economic conditions, Economy, personal musing
by Mark P. McDonald | November 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
New Realities require new rules, some of the forces shaping the future of the enterprise and IT Please note this is an excerpt of the Keynote address delivered at this year;s Gartner Symposia in Orlando Florida, Cannes France and Sydney Australia. CIOs and IT leaders are accustomed to change. It is part of the territory. [...]
Category: 2011 Economy Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, Economic conditions, IT and Business, Strategy and Planning, symposium, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | November 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
Sydney is the final destination for the 2010 Gartner Symposium cycle enabling Gartner Analysts to share the latest insight gained from meeting with CIOs and IT executives in Europe and North America. Australian companies are midway through their 2011 financial year and face the need to assess where they stand and the need to formulate [...]
Category: 2011 Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, Business Leadership, Economic conditions, Leadership, Strategy and Planning, symposium
by Mark P. McDonald | November 10, 2010 | 2 Comments
It is halfway through Gartner European Symposium and ITxPo and time for some intermediate reflections. These are based on talking with CIOs both in 1:1 sessions as well as to groups of CIOs after presentations and during dinners, etc. These views are my own and based on these interactions which represent a fraction of the [...]
Category: 2011 CIO Economy Personal Observation Strategy Tags: 2010 planning, Business, CIO Leadership, Economic conditions, IT and Business, Personal Observation, symposium
