by Mark P. McDonald | May 16, 2013 | 3 Comments
This all started back in January 2009 and 718 posts latter with more than 3,700 comments it is time to conclude this blog. During the past four years, the blog has sought to present and share ideas about technology in the enterprise, the role of the CIO and the changing nature of IT leadership. During [...]
Category: Personal Observation Tags: personal musing, Personal Observation
by Mark P. McDonald | May 1, 2013 | Submit a Comment
How can you tell the difference between hype and reality? This was the question the President of a Business Unit asked me in front of the corporation’s entire leadership team. Answering this question was a matter of professional and credibility risk. After all Gartner knows a lot about hype. Gartner has been known to foment [...]
Category: Leadership Personal Observation Signs of weak management Tags: Leadership, personal musing
by Mark P. McDonald | April 19, 2013 | Submit a Comment
The intentional use of older, often obsolete cultural artifacts may be regarded as anachronistic according to Wikipedia. What are you going to do with those ducks? By Seth Godin is just that. A more than three-inch thick compendium of Godin’s blog posts seems like a duck out of water in a digital world. But it [...]
Category: Book Review Personal Observation Tags: Book Review, personal musing, Personal Observation
by Mark P. McDonald | April 17, 2013 | 1 Comment
The relationship between business and technology is complex and confusing for both executives and their IT peers. I believe that much of the reason behind this has to do with the very nature of technology and how business makes sense of that nature. Beware this is more of a thought piece than a set of [...]
Category: Digitalization Personal Observation Technology Tags: Digitalization, personal musing, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | April 16, 2013 | 2 Comments
That was the thought running through my head this morning. The more I look around, the more I see what was a diversity of opinion, ideas, backgrounds, ethnicities, religion etc. become division and destruction. Diversity has become division in so many areas, social, lifestyle, politics based on class warfare, geo political conflicts, religions wars, economic [...]
Category: Personal Observation Tags: personal musing, Personal Observation
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 18, 2013 | Submit a Comment
It is President’s Day in the U.S. a public holiday recognizing the 44 leaders of the United States. Who is the greatest President? How do the President’s stack up? How do they rank against each other? Responding to these questions is the work of academics and political pundits. I asked this question back in 2009 [...]
Category: Personal Observation Tags: personal musing, Personal Observation
by Mark P. McDonald | January 21, 2013 | Submit a Comment
In the United States we have a public holiday to honor the life, lessons and leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, perhaps the most significant leader in the U.S. Civil Rights movement. I was a child when Dr. King and others were leading the movement toward greater equality and we are the beneficiary of his [...]
Category: Personal Observation Tags: personal musing, Personal Observation
by Mark P. McDonald | November 21, 2012 | Submit a Comment
Thanksgiving is upon us. It is a uniquely American holiday, in the sense that it remains somewhat exclusive to the U.S.. Other cultures and countries have similar holidays and festivals that are not practiced in the U.S. but the nature of Thanksgiving is part of the nature and culture of being an American. 2012 has [...]
Category: Personal Observation Tags: personal musing, Personal Observation
by Mark P. McDonald | November 19, 2012 | 15 Comments
This blog post is going to get me into trouble, but I think that the issue is worth discussing, so I wince as I hit the publish button, but here goes. Recently I had the opportunity to listen to an Enterprise Architect describe enterprise architecture, its importance and role in an organization. It was an [...]
Category: EA Personal Observation Technology Tools Tags: architecture, CIO Leadership, enterprise, personal musing, Personal Observation, Signs of weak management, Technology Leadership
