Entries Tagged as 'Strategy and Planning'
by Mark P. McDonald | April 4, 2012 | 3 Comments
Lightweight technologies are transforming equations in both the tech industry and every IT organization. A lightweight technology is one based on creating value through Internet based services. The Cloud, Mobile Solutions, Apps, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS are all examples of these technologies. These lightweight technologies represent more than a substitute or alternative to traditional IT. They [...]
Category: Management Strategic planning Strategy Technology Tags: Strategy and Planning, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | March 30, 2012 | 1 Comment
Yesterday final CIO Leadership Session finished in Phoenix wrapping up sessions in Dubai and London. Each session concentrated on regional challenges from expanding growth in the gulf, to addressing macro economic realities in Europe and leading in times of transition in the Americas. Regardless of location, CIOs around the world face a new set of [...]
Category: 2012 CIO Cloud Customer Experience Distortion Re-imagine IT Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, Business Leadership, CIO Leadership, CIO-Forum-NA, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | March 26, 2012 | Submit a Comment
After an inspirational story of leadership and building high performing organizations by Pete Goss, the CIO leadership forum kicked off with opening sessions that concentrated on the theme of Amplifying the Enterprise. During the sessions, the audience of more than 300 CIOs provided their initial thoughts on the role of IT, their priorities and key [...]
Category: 2012 Amplifying the Enterprise CIO Leadership Strategic planning Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, Business Leadership, CIO-Forum-NA, Strategy and Planning, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | February 23, 2012 | 2 Comments
Culture can be your organization’s greatest strength. Too often it is the most powerful source of rigidity as cultural change takes time, disrupts operations and can be difficult. This leads many to see culture as a constraint on strategy and a barrier to transformation. Literally hundreds of books have been written about culture and the [...]
Category: Social Media Social Organization Strategy Tags: Change leadership, Change Management, Culture, Social Organization, 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 | 5 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 budgets Economy Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, CFO, CIO strategy, CIO-Forum-NA, cost cutting, Economic conditions, Strategy and Planning
