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 | 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 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
by Mark P. McDonald | October 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee have created a powerful, concise and informative discussion of the impact of technology on employment, income distribution and macroeconomics. Do not be fooled by the title, Race Against the Machine is not a neo luddite treatise on the evils of automation and technology. The title is more about generating buzz [...]
Category: Book Review Economy Strategy Technology Tags: Book Review, Business Leadership, Economic conditions, Economic Recovery, Economy, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | October 26, 2011 | Submit a Comment
You would think that we were past all of this. If you live in the U.S. chances are you have seen one of the commercials for an insurance broker eSurance. The company’s tag line is “technology when you want it – people when you don’t.” The ads consist of a series of feature-function laden banter [...]
Category: Personal Observation Technology Tags: personal musing, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | October 20, 2011 | 3 Comments
Today I have delivered a talk at Gartner Symposium in Orlando on the subject of Digitization: the next wave. Here are a few thoughts: The definition of digitization is changing and creating new ways of thinking about business, innovation and opportunity. The standard and first definition of digitization centers on the representation of things with [...]
Category: 2012 Strategy Technology Tags: Business Strategy, digitization, IT strategy, Technology, Technology Leadership
