Entries Tagged as 'Economic Recovery'
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 | 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 | 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 | May 23, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Competitive instability happens when one player in a market releases a series of capabilities that constantly change the terms of competition. In geo-politics, Ronald Reagan creates competitive instability via US defense policy in relationship to the Soviet Union. Creating competitive instability involves creating a stream of discontinuities that exploit near term market opportunities and then [...]
Category: Leadership Management marketing Re-imagine IT Strategic planning Strategy Uncategorized Tags: Business Strategy, competition, Economic Recovery, Marketing
by Mark P. McDonald | January 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
I was going to write about 10 CIO new years resolutions, that will come latter, but this thought rolled through as I was reading the paper. According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. companies have accumulated a mountain of cash and look to invest it in 2011 — Big Firms Poised to Spend Again. That [...]
Category: Personal Observation Technology Tags: Economic Recovery, personal musing, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | October 5, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Markets, executives and customers are coming to the realization that pushing the reset button in terms of our economic expectations requires us to face a future that is based more on what we have now than on aspirations for a return to the past. Note this is a long post Strategy setting for 2011 needs [...]
Category: Economy Leadership Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, Business Strategy, Economic conditions, Economic Recovery, Economy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | October 4, 2010 | Submit a Comment
2011 is shaping up to be the year when the world takes the turn away from thinking about economic challenges and setting their sights on economic opportunities. For better or worse people are coming to the recognition that the economy we have is the one we are stuck with so we better start acting and [...]
Category: CIO Economy Leadership Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, Business Leadership, Business Strategy, Economic Recovery, Economy, IT and Business
by Mark P. McDonald | September 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
The future of the economy is on many people’s minds and for good reason. While we cannot know if the future, one thing appears certain. We are living in a multi-speed world. I first heard of the term different economic speeds when I was in Australia. They point to two speeds: a top speed and [...]
Category: Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, Economic conditions, Economic Recovery, Strategy
by Mark P. McDonald | September 8, 2010 | Submit a Comment
According to Gartner’s 2010 CIO Mid year survey, IT budgets remain tight and CIOs report having to move resources around to meet increasing operational and infrastructure upgrades in the face of tight budget and economic environment. CIOs face a year of leading in times of transition with continued economic challenges combining with changes in enterprise [...]
Category: Economy Strategy Tags: cost cutting, Economic conditions, Economic Recovery, Finance
by Mark P. McDonald | May 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
For the past ten years many IT organizations and technologies have centralized. Multiple cycles of economic growth and recession have led companies to centralize IT to gain scale efficiencies, improve service consistency and consolidate IT expenditures. At the same time, core technologies and the tech industry have consolidated and centralized. Consolidation is expected to continue [...]
Category: Economy Leadership Strategy Technology Tags: Business Strategy, CIO Leadership, Economic Recovery, Economy, Signs of weak management, Strategy and Planning
