by Mark P. McDonald | February 17, 2012 | Submit a Comment
I don’t blog a lot about security. I leave that to the security experts like John Pescatore and others. But recently in the last three weeks security has become a question raised by CIOs and business leaders. Security is a big issue related to technology given recent security lapses at high profile companies and ongoing [...]
Category: CIO Leadership Management Personal Observation Technology Tags: Business Management, IT management, Security and Risk Management, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | February 13, 2012 | Submit a Comment
According to the 2012 Gartner CIO Survey, 61% of companies plan on improving their mobility capabilities. Of those about half are planning to become the innovation leader in their industry. This creates a situation where a sizable group of people is all trying to be ‘well above average.’ Lake Wobegon , where all the children [...]
Category: Strategy Technology Tags: Consumerization of IT, mobility, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | February 10, 2012 | Submit a Comment
Whenever I am moving through an airport I have to take three bins to get through the metal detector. I need a bin for my shoes, toiletries, etc., one for my personal computer and one for my iPad. More often than not I get a funny look from the others standing in line, first for [...]
Category: Personal Observation Technology Tags: iPad, personal musing, Personal Observation, Technology
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 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 4, 2012 | 1 Comment
Business Week, Wired and the Economist published articles in December about social media and its role in social unrest. The articles described how social media has enabled everything from peaceful protests to looting via ‘flash robs’ that actively monitor and coordinate their actions around police movements. Executives reading these articles could understandably equate social media [...]
Category: Innovation Social Media Social Organization Strategy Technology Tags: Social Computing, Social Organization, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | December 14, 2011 | 6 Comments
I doubt that anyone has lugged their personal desktop computer into the office and demanded that it be connected to the network. Equally I doubt anyone has brought in a pile of CD’s asking to load their own enterprise software on the network to run their part of the business in their own way, giving [...]
Category: Applications Technology Tags: CIO strategy, Consumerization of IT, mobility, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | December 2, 2011 | 1 Comment
Strong interest in mobile technologies and the plethora of ‘apps’ available on smart phones is driving intense interest and demand for mobile applications. Some of this demand is being driven by ‘fashion’ as having an iPad/Pod or Android application is the in thing to have. Separating the ‘glam’ from the genuine need for mobile applications [...]
Category: Strategy Technology Tags: 2012 planning, Innovation, iPad, mobility, Technology, Technology Leadership
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 21, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Digital technologies are changing reality in ways that we cannot predict and at an ever increasing pace that leave even the digital generation in the dust. Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAffee discuss this in their new book Race Against the Machine (link to a review) and offer the prediction that we have not really seen [...]
Category: 2012 Strategy Technology Tags: Business Strategy, digitization, IT strategy, Technology, Technology Leadership
