by Mark P. McDonald | October 23, 2012 | Submit a Comment
In March of this year Polly Labarre from the Management Innovation Xchange (MIX) opened the Gartner EXP / Management Innovation Lab Hackathon at the Phoenix CIO Leadership Forum. Gartner and Gary Hamel’s Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) have invited a select group of IT leaders to crack a key issue: How IT can help organizations become more [...]
Category: 2013 Innovation Management Strategy Tags: 2013 Planning, Future of Management, Innovation, Management, symposium
by Mark P. McDonald | October 22, 2012 | 1 Comment
Every organization has an edge – a reason behind their future success. Having an edge is great, but customer expectations, competition and technology dull every edge. Sharpening these edges becomes increasingly difficult over time as technology makes it easier for competitors to copy, mimic, reverse engineer your edge. Executives need an edge that is self-sharpening, [...]
Category: 2013 Amplifying the Enterprise Digitalization Innovation Technology Tags: Digital Edge, Digitalization, digitization, Strategy, Strategy and Planning, symposium, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | October 21, 2012 | 3 Comments
It’s October. It’s Orlando. It must be time for Gartner Symposium. This year’s event represents a pivotal time for CIOs and IT particularly as the world makes the transition between a focus on IT and a broader focus on Technology. The Nexus of forces (Cloud, Mobile, Social and Information) is a focus of the event, [...]
Category: 2013 Amplifying the Enterprise CIO Customer Experience Digitalization Lean Thinking Management Small IT Strategic planning Technology Tags: 2013 Planning, CIO, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, IT and Business, Strategy, Strategy and Planning, symposium, Technology Leadership, Value of IT
by Mark P. McDonald | October 18, 2012 | 2 Comments
Digital technologies like mobile, social, analytics, big data, communications, etc. are an increasingly important part of formulating business strategy. Incorporating digital technology into strategic decisions raises a fundamental question – how do we use technology to grow the business? Executives face two basic choices in responding to that question. They can apply digital technology as [...]
Category: Digitalization Strategic planning Strategy Technology Tags: 2013 Planning, Business Strategy, Digital Edge, digitization, Strategy, Strategy and Planning, symposium
by Mark P. McDonald | October 16, 2012 | 1 Comment
A significant uptick in dissatisfaction with service providers is one of the trends I have noticed in the last six months. Many CIOs are either actively switching service providers, in the evaluation process of switching or questioning the skills and abilities of their service provider as a significant issue hampering their success. Is there something [...]
Category: 2013 Economy Lean Thinking Management Strategic planning Tags: CIO Leadership, cost cutting, Economic conditions, IT Leadership, Operational Leadership, Outsourcing, personal musing, Personal Observation, Strategy and Planning, symposium
by Mark P. McDonald | October 15, 2012 | 1 Comment
Last week more than 250 CIOs attended Gartner Symposium in Goa, India. This year’s event was the second symposium in India with last year’s held in Mumbai. In talking with CIOs and IT executives at the event it became clear that 2013 is going to be a transitional year for CIOs and for IT in [...]
Category: 2013 CIO Leadership Strategic planning Strategy Technology Tags: Business Leadership, CIO Leadership, IT strategy, symposium, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | October 12, 2012 | 1 Comment
The terms digital and digitize are related, one the noun and the other a verb. This creates confusion as they are often used interchangeably for example do you have a digital business or one that is digitized? Normally I dislike definitional posts that seek to refine terminology more often in an attempt to ‘brand’ a [...]
Category: Digitalization Technology Tags: Digital Edge, Digitalization, digitization, symposium, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | October 10, 2012 | Submit a Comment
When I was young you watched television, listened to the radio or read a news paper. Companies identified themselves with the technology of transmission. Television stations, radio stations and newspapers named the technology medium. Today they are all ‘media’ companies. The name changes reflect the nature of digital technology and its ability to readily provide [...]
Category: Digitalization Technology Tags: Digitalization, digitization, personal musing, symposium
by Mark P. McDonald | October 8, 2012 | 1 Comment
Note: a little while back I posted that IT needs an epic journey. Rather than talk about that journey in dry abstract terms, I thought I would try to illustrate the challenges via a story. There will be periodic installments as well as an invitation to add to it. John Delsey put down his morning [...]
Category: IT Epic Journey Tags: CIO Leadership, Epic Journey, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning, symposium, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | October 7, 2012 | 4 Comments
Gartner’s annual symposium season is gearing up. After an appearance in Cape Town South Africa in August, the next stop was Tokyo where more than 500 CIOs and IT executives gathered to discuss the current challenges and future goals for information technology. During the symposium I had the honor of meeting with a number of [...]
Category: 2012 Personal Observation Tags: CIO Leadership, Digitalization, Innovation, IT strategy, symposium, Technology, Technology Leadership
