Entries Tagged as 'Strategy and Planning'
by Mark P. McDonald | February 8, 2012 | 3 Comments
Amplifying the enterprise is the theme for this year’s CIO agenda reflecting the expanding role of technology in the enterprise and its role in raising the power of enterprise strategies and performance. The notion of technology as an enterprise amplifier goes beyond traditional notions of IT and the administration/automation of back office processes. Technologies such [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise Strategic planning Strategy Tools Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, IT and Business, Strategy, Strategy and Planning, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | January 24, 2012 | 3 Comments
In a prior post I raised the point of what happens when frugality fails? This leads to the question of where IT goes from here. While the future of IT is an ongoing concern, re-imagining that role starts by recognizing your IT mindset and the mindset of other enterprise leaders. What do you think when [...]
Category: 2012 Technology Tags: IT strategy, Strategy and Planning, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | January 20, 2012 | 3 Comments
For the past 10 years, cost has been the mantra facing CIOs and IT organizations. Cost benefits are a factor in just about every major technology wave in the past 10 years. Cloud, the current theme, is presented as a cost play so is sourcing, services, virtualization, open source — if I did not know [...]
Category: 2012 Economy Leadership Management Strategic planning Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, CIO-Forum-NA, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | January 18, 2012 | 2 Comments
Last year, CIOs responding to the Gartner Executive Programs CIO Agenda indicated that it was time to re-imagine IT. Re-imagining IT meant recognizing that business priorities and technologies had changed enough for IT to rethink its role in the enterprise and its value proposition. For some this meant adopting cloud technologies to reallocate resources from [...]
Category: 2012 Leadership Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, Strategy and Planning, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | January 12, 2012 | Submit a Comment
Amplifying the enterprise involves turning up the value of technology in the enterprise. Eliminating distortion is one of the ways that technology amplifies the enterprise. Distortion refers to the internal complexities; costs, duplication and redundancies that make it harder to get work done. Think about the things that get in the way, make it difficult [...]
Category: 2012 Strategy Technology Tools Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CIO-Forum-NA, cost cutting, Economic Recovery, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
In times of economic adversity, conventional wisdom calls for conserving cash and capital. Firms have amassed record amounts of cash as governments face deep cuts in the fourth year of five-year plans. Leaders know that the future requires re-imaging the enterprise rather than repeated waves of belt tightening. Nowhere is this more evident than in [...]
Category: 2012 Economy Strategic planning Strategy budgets Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CFO, CIO strategy, CIO-Forum-NA, cost cutting, Economic conditions, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | January 3, 2012 | 3 Comments
Every year is important and pundits, myself included, contribute to the annual strategy and planning cycle that is based on the premise that the coming year must be the most important year. That position makes sense when you consider that without a compelling plan for ‘next year’ the CIOs and IT organization will not get [...]
Category: 2012 Leadership Management Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, Business Leadership, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, Strategy, Strategy and Planning, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | December 29, 2011 | 3 Comments
A new year brings anticipation and the promise of innovation and 2012 is no exception. Rapidly evolving technologies like mobile, analytics, social and the like are opening the doors for new answers to new and old questions about growth, efficiency, value and innovation. This is setting the stage for significant innovation in the coming year. [...]
Category: 2012 Management Personal Observation Tags: 2012 planning, Business Leadership, Business Management, Personal Observation, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | November 28, 2011 | 3 Comments
Just about everyone is talking about or moving into the cloud and that is ok. But when it comes to your IT strategy, the cloud is a red herring. A red herring is distraction, something that deliberately draws attention away from things that are more important. In the case of the cloud, it is taking [...]
Category: 2012 Cloud Strategic planning Strategy Technology Tags: 2012 planning, cloud computing, IT and Business, IT strategy, Strategy, Strategy and Planning, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | November 25, 2011 | Submit a Comment
This past week marked a milestone as Gartner brought its symposium format to India for the first time. More than 1,000 Indian IT professionals met in Mumbai to learn, discussion, participate and contribute to each other on issues ranging from cloud computing to the future of IT itself. Between the presentations, workshops and 1 on [...]
Category: 2012 CIO Economy Leadership Management Strategic planning Tags: 2012 planning, IT strategy, Leadership, Personal Observation, Strategy and Planning, symposium
