by Mark P. McDonald | November 17, 2011 | 3 Comments
Business relevance and alignment is a persistent issue in IT and a challenge for CIOs. In this year’s CIO agenda presentations at Gartner Symposium these issues were discussed and measured based on CIO business priorities and plans. The 2011 CIO survey looked at this issue and we described it in an analogy that IT believes [...]
Category: 2012 CFO CIO IT Governance Leadership Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, Business Strategy, IT and Business, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | October 20, 2011 | 3 Comments
Today I have delivered a talk at Gartner Symposium in Orlando on the subject of Digitization: the next wave. Here are a few thoughts: The definition of digitization is changing and creating new ways of thinking about business, innovation and opportunity. The standard and first definition of digitization centers on the representation of things with [...]
Category: 2012 Strategy Technology Tags: Business Strategy, digitization, IT strategy, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | October 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
Experience is the new goal for products and services. Experience replaces traditional goals related to feature and functionality. Factors that can readily be copied. In their place, experience seeks to create a broader set of value that cannot be readily substituted and gets better through repeated use. Why? Well, in a world of global supply, [...]
Category: IT Governance Leadership Re-imagine IT Tags: CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, IT strategy, RE-imagine IT
by Mark P. McDonald | September 6, 2011 | Submit a Comment
The U.S. Labor Day weekend marks the official end of summer and the starting gun for FY 2011 close and planning for 2012. Unless you are deploying a new solution this month, your organization is going to finish the year with the capabilities it already has—there simply is not enough time for new capabilities to [...]
Category: 2012 Leadership Management Re-imagine IT Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, CIO Leadership, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning, Value of IT
by Mark P. McDonald | August 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
Every organization knows about its front office that generates revenue and its back office that operates those processes. Few recognize the capabilities within the space between – the middle office – capabilities that determine your effectiveness and comparative advantage. Executives know how to improve the performance of their front and back office processes. They change [...]
Category: CIO Innovation Leadership Management Strategic planning Strategy Tags: Business Strategy, IT strategy, mid-office, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | July 7, 2011 | 2 Comments
One of the reasons CIOs face the need to re-imagine IT is that most companies are pursuing a dual track strategy calling for growth and cost cutting. These two goals are often seen as being mutually exclusive – creating a duel rather than a dual set of requirements. You are either supporting growth or you [...]
Category: IT Governance Management Re-imagine IT Tags: CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, cost cutting, IT organization, IT strategy, RE-imagine IT, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | May 11, 2011 | 11 Comments
I was in a meeting last week where people were talking about the evolution of what we now call IT. At the start it was called Data Processing, then it evolved into Management Information System (MIS) and now we call it Information Technology (IT) or Information Management (IM). I would like to raise the question [...]
Category: CIO Leadership Management Re-imagine IT Strategy Tags: Business Strategy, IT strategy, RE-imagine IT
by Mark P. McDonald | March 21, 2011 | Submit a Comment
IT’s strategic relevance is always the subject of great debate. It is interlinked with issues of business alignment, the strength of the business relationship and the value of IT. It is an area ready for re-imagination in order to reduce strategic inflammation. CIOs responding to the Gartner 2011 CIO Survey indicated that they felt their [...]
Category: 2011 Re-imagine IT Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, CIO Leadership, IT strategy, Reimagine IT, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | March 18, 2011 | 6 Comments
Re-imagining IT involves changing a few fundamental assumptions and factors that reset the context of IT, its operations and contribution to the business. Re-imagining reflects the reality of the technical, business and management changes facing CIOs. The cloud, drive for growth and need to accelerate cycle times all require keeping much of what makes IT [...]
Category: 2011 Leadership Management Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, Business Leadership, Business Strategy, CIO Leadership, IT strategy, RE-imagine IT, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | February 17, 2011 | 2 Comments
Imagination creates new ideas based on asking what could be. Re-imagination opens new opportunities by asking what would be possible if? Its time to re-imagine IT, by that I mean that its time to recognize that some of the fundamentals of IT are changing and those changes open the door to new possibilities. Re-imagination is [...]
Category: 2011 CIO Innovation IT Governance Leadership Management Re-imagine IT Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, CIO Leadership, IT organization, IT strategy, RE-imagine IT
