by Mark P. McDonald | April 25, 2013 | 1 Comment
How strong is the business/IT relationship in your industry? How easy to business with technology is for you and your peers? It’s a good question and one that we explored in the 2013 Gartner Executive Programs CIO Survey. More than 2,000 organizations responded to the survey providing a basis for calculating an index to measure [...]
Category: Hunting and Harvesting in a Digital World Tags: 2013 Planning, IT and Business, relationships
by Mark P. McDonald | March 25, 2013 | Submit a Comment
This is the last in a series of posts evaluating the differences between technology and IT. While it is easy to list differences, this approach rarely reveals the dynamics behind those differences. Applying an analogy to compare two things helps communicate those differences. In this case we are using the analogy of a game and [...]
Category: 2013 IT Epic Journey Re-imagine IT Tags: IT and Business, Technology Game
by Mark P. McDonald | March 11, 2013 | 2 Comments
Last week more than 450 CIOs and IT executives met for Gartner’s first ever Symposium in the Middle East. The three-day event concentrated on the digital imperatives of Focus, Connect and Lead. Digital technology, Gartner’s Nexus of Forces, gives each of these imperatives a new and exciting context. Based on the presentations, questions, discussions and [...]
Category: CIO Strategic planning Tags: 2013 Planning, CIO Leadership, gartnersym, IT and Business, symposium
by Mark P. McDonald | March 5, 2013 | Submit a Comment
This week Gartner hosts its first Symposium in the Middle East and for those attending the event, my personal welcome. A Symposium represents an opportunity for a group of peers to gather and cover a wide range of complex issues. Information Technology professionals certainly face a range of complex issues as they look to hunt [...]
Category: 2013 CIO Digital Edge Tags: CIO strategy, gartnersym, IT and Business, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning, symposium
by Mark P. McDonald | March 1, 2013 | 1 Comment
Today starts sequestration; the term for the ‘draconian’ budget cuts in the U.S. The 6% across the board cuts to social programs and 8% cut for defense programs has been the subject of discussion, hyperbole, blame storming on all sides. CIOs are familiar with the idea of having to manage in an environment of broad [...]
Category: budgets CFO CIO Tags: 2013 Planning, CFO, IT and Business, Leadership, personal musing, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | February 20, 2013 | 1 Comment
The IT Game is a stalemate and the past few posts have sought to start up a conversation regarding the nature of a new Technology Game that should replace the IT Game we play today. Using the defining characteristics of context, goal, rules, feedback and participation. These are the prior posts related to the Technology [...]
Category: 2013 Digital Edge Digitalization IT Epic Journey Re-imagine IT Tags: IT and Business, IT Leadership, Technology Game, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | February 12, 2013 | 2 Comments
The prior post introduced the idea that the current IT game is a stalemate and that it is time to design a new game, a technology game. That post suggests a different context and goal for a technology game, please follow this link to see that discussion. A game is further defined by its rules [...]
Category: 2013 Digital Edge Digitalization IT Epic Journey Re-imagine IT Tags: IT and Business, IT Leadership, Technology Game, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | February 8, 2013 | 6 Comments
CIOs and IT leaders are masters of the IT game. Executives play the IT game so long as it was the only game in town and it suited their needs. If you want to control IT cost, quality, services, enablement and control, then you are playing an IT game that worked for more than 30 [...]
Category: 2013 Digital Edge Digitalization IT Epic Journey Re-imagine IT Tags: IT and Business, IT Leadership, IT management, IT strategy, Technology Game, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | January 30, 2013 | 2 Comments
For years CIOs and researchers have highlighted the imperative for IT become a larger part of the business. The advice offered is for CIOs to be more strategic, business focuses, business relevant and the like have consumed tons of paper, millions of pixels and pounds of toner. Over the last 10 years the issue of [...]
Category: 2013 Digital Edge Digitalization Re-imagine IT Strategy Tags: IT and Business, IT Leadership, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | December 27, 2012 | 2 Comments
2012 has been one of extremes from a continued deepening of the global financial crisis, to the U.S. National Elections; to the rapid take-up of digital technology this year has been one of transition. “The more things change the more things seem to stay the same,” to paraphrase Yogi Berra. From and IT perspective, the [...]
Category: 2013 Amplifying the Enterprise Digital Edge Digitalization Leadership Re-imagine IT Strategy Tags: 2013 Planning, Digital Edge, IT and Business, Strategy and Planning
