by Mark P. McDonald | September 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
I would place IT among the more global industries in our economy and that has implications on how we think of IT strategically, operationally and technically. IT was going global in the late 1990’s before many companies were global. One might think that IT is global because of developments such as offshore outsourcing of IT [...]
Category: CIO Strategy Tags: global IT, IT organization
by Mark P. McDonald | February 27, 2009 | 2 Comments
This past week I presented to the global IT organization of Kraft Foods Inc. and witnessed my first global online meeting. The company operates in more than 160 countries and participating in this meeting were IT people from India, across Asia, Europe, across the U.S. While I was at corporate headquarters, via live meeting, three [...]
Category: Innovation Leadership Uncategorized Tags: global IT, Innovation, Telepresence
