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 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 | December 19, 2012 | 1 Comment
It is the holiday season and the time for samplers. Recently a friend sent me a candle sampler as a holiday gift – a box of assorted chocolates. That got me thinking about the collection of ideas that we offer to each other and exchange. So here is a sample that I offer to you [...]
Category: 2013 Amplifying the Enterprise Management Strategy Tags: 2013 Planning, IT and Business, IT Leadership, IT management, Technology Leadership, Value of IT
by Mark P. McDonald | December 17, 2012 | 2 Comments
Digital technologies are worth less individually. They are worth everything when connected to enterprise information and transaction capabilities. That is a rather esoteric statement, so consider a mobile phone with apps. Alone the phone is helpful, you can call people, consult maps, etc. But that phone and those apps are worth more when they are [...]
Category: 2013 Digital Edge Digitalization Technology Tags: 2013 Planning, Digital Edge, Digitalization, digitization, IT Leadership, IT management, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | November 16, 2012 | Submit a Comment
The seventh and final Gartner Symposium ITXpo completed this week at Gold Coast, Australia. This completes a set of posts related to prior events in Tokyo, Goa, Orlando, Sao Paulo, Barcelona and now the Gold Coast. The links point to what I have learned from these other venues. This is the second year of holding [...]
Category: 2013 Amplifying the Enterprise CIO Leadership Management Strategy Tags: 2013 Planning, IT management, Leadership, Management, Strategy and Planning, symposium, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | October 31, 2012 | 3 Comments
Business and IT alignment is a perennial issues facing executives. It is one of reasons for misunderstandings, inefficiencies and frankly recriminations between technologists and business professionals. Improving Business and IT Alignment is a constant part of CIO strategic priorities as shown by the CIO survey results. Follow the link to participate in the 2013 CIO [...]
Category: IT Governance Management Strategic planning Tags: alignment, CIO Leadership, governance, IT management, Management, symposium
by Mark P. McDonald | August 22, 2012 | 3 Comments
In the 2012 Gartner Executive Programs CIO survey we asked CIOs several questions about the metrics they use, how effective the metrics were and how effective they were at demonstrating the business value of IT. We shared the data with CIOs over the past year and some interesting insights came up that are the subject [...]
Category: 2013 Amplifying the Enterprise Management Tags: 2013 Planning, Finance, IT management, Metrics
by Mark P. McDonald | August 14, 2012 | 2 Comments
The question gets at the issue of legacy applications, information, infrastructure, etc. Current IT philosophy, management practices and thinking is organized around the idea of building new things, adopting new technology, correcting the past, in other words viewing what you have now as a slag heap rather than a source of future value. That my [...]
Category: Re-imagine IT Strategy Technology Tags: IT Leadership, IT management, IT strategy, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | May 25, 2012 | 2 Comments
Organizations are in crisis and many are unaware. Crisis in the sense that organizations are facing developments that will lead them to an unstable and dangerous situation which they all recognize, but few know why and even fewer know what to do. The crisis is silent driven by its absence rather than the presence of [...]
Category: Leadership Management Signs of weak management Tags: Change Management, IT management, Management, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | February 17, 2012 | 2 Comments
I don’t blog a lot about security. I leave that to the security experts like John Pescatore and others. But recently in the last three weeks security has become a question raised by CIOs and business leaders. Security is a big issue related to technology given recent security lapses at high profile companies and ongoing [...]
Category: CIO Leadership Management Personal Observation Technology Tags: Business Management, IT management, Security and Risk Management, Technology
