Entries Tagged as 'IT Leadership'
by Mark P. McDonald | March 20, 2013 | Submit a Comment
Last week the CIO Leadership Forum landed in London at Heathrow Terminal 5 where more than 250 CIOs shared their experiences, ideas and concerns. This week Huntington Beach California, outside Los Angeles hosted the North American event where more than 350 CIOs gathered to discuss the theme of “Digital Enterprise and Beyond.” Part of the [...]
Category: 2013 Digital Edge Digitalization Hunting and Harvesting in a Digital World Leadership Strategy Tags: 2013 Planning, IT Leadership, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | March 4, 2013 | Submit a Comment
The other day I watched “The History of the Eagles Part 1 & 2” a documentary on the Eagles, you know the band that brought is Life in the Fast Lane, Hotel California, and the Long Run, among other hits. The documentary featured the standard story arch of an epic journey of Don Henley, Glen [...]
Category: CIO Management Tags: CIO Leadership, IT Leadership, Leadership, Management
by Mark P. McDonald | February 25, 2013 | Submit a Comment
Strategy connects with structure and structure influences strategy. The relationship between the two drives organizations to re-align, re-distribute and re-organize, all except for IT. According to the 2013 Gartner CIO Survey, only 30% of CIOs believe that changing business priorities and strategies requires changing the IT organization. In other words, 70% of CIOs believe that [...]
Category: 2013 IT Governance Small IT Strategy Tags: IT Leadership, IT organization, IT strategy
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 | January 16, 2013 | 9 Comments
This morning I had the honor of appearing on CNBC to announce the results of the 2013 Gartner Executive Programs CIO survey and CIO agenda report. Follow this link to the video and this link to the press announcement. The title of this year’s report revolves around extending technology’s role in the enterprise to include [...]
Category: 2013 Digital Edge Digitalization Hunting and Harvesting in a Digital World Strategic planning Tags: 2013 Planning, IT Leadership, Strategy and Planning, Value of IT
by Mark P. McDonald | January 7, 2013 | 1 Comment
Today is the first full working day of the first full working week of 2013. It’s a time when ‘everything old is new again’. New in the context that it’s a new year, new budget, new beginning. I believe that an organization’s ability to renew itself, give it a fresh start and move forward is [...]
Category: 2013 Leadership Management Tough Questions Tags: 2013 Planning, CIO Leadership, IT Leadership, IT management, IT strategy, Leadership, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | January 2, 2013 | 1 Comment
New Year’s resolutions come and mostly go by the wayside in large part because they are weak commitments to things we already know that we are not going to do. Sure you can pass up desert on January 3rd but what about on February 2nd is the same commitment there? Rather than make promises that [...]
Category: 2013 Leadership Tough Questions Tags: 2013 Planning, Business Leadership, Business Management, IT Leadership, IT strategy
