by Mark Raskino | June 15, 2012 | 1 Comment
Management book signing is sometimes a bit like disco dancing. Middle aged men don’t feel comfortable doing it – at least at first. Last night I asked Sir Terry Leahy, who stepped down as CEO of Tesco last year, to sign a copy of his new book. It was at the end of an excellent [...]
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by Mark Raskino | June 11, 2012 | 1 Comment
In an echo of the offshoring hype of the early 2000s it now seems we are facing a double barrelled threat to the future of the IT department. At the front end there’s consumerisation and ‘BYOD’ and at the back end, the cloud seems to portend a future where large companies no longer need anything [...]
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by Mark Raskino | May 23, 2012 | 6 Comments
For Gartner Symposium last year, I wanted to convey some high level points to CIOs about the future of information in business strategy formation and how their role needs to change. Humour helps with challenging messages and I was inspired by this hilarious You Tube cartoon explaining quantitative easing. So I learned to use Xtranormal [...]
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by Mark Raskino | May 14, 2009 | 2 Comments
This week the EU took a big swipe at Intel with a very large fine. Forget about the details of the case, who was right or whether the penalty will stand up after appeal – just think of it as one megatrend data-point. A recent piece in Business Week suggests that Barrack Obama is breaking [...]
Category: Analyst Life CEO Economy Enterprise 2.0 Management Recession Regulation Strategy Uncategorized Tags: anti-trust, creative destruction, EU, Intel, Obama, Recession, Systems extrication, too big to fail
by Mark Raskino | May 9, 2009 | Comments Off
My colleague Jorge Lopez and I research and write about CEO issues – the major concerns in business and the economy that weigh on business leader’s thinking and future actions. After a few months – the ramifications of these issues end up on the CIO’s desk one way or another. In 2006 and 2007 we [...]
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Category: CEO Economy Recession Strategy Tags: oil, prices, Recession, volatility
by Mark Raskino | May 7, 2009 | Comments Off
With the announcement of its third version of the Kindle, now an 18 month old product line, Amazon seem to have created a very American stage for the opening act of the new e-book era. There are still no announcements about Kindle appearing in Europe or elsewhere. Leaving the ‘RoW’ gap open for so long, [...]
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Category: CEO Innovation Strategy Tags: Co-opetition, Consortia, e-book, Future of Capitalism, Kindle, Strategy
by Mark Raskino | April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
The last recession, in the early 2000′s was milder than this one and its epicenter hit a few industries particularly hard (such as IT and Aviation) while leaving others only slowed and for a relatively short time. This recession has caused a deep and often very sudden fall of revenue in many industries and right [...]
Category: CEO Recession Strategy Tags: Divestiture, Recession, Systems extrication
by Mark Raskino | April 15, 2009 | 4 Comments
Over the last few weeks I have noticed an increase in ‘green shoots’ stories and of course there has been another stock market rally. When economists and business analysts are commenting, the US debate often seems to centre on whether the stimulus will be inflationary further down the line. One side says the stimulus is [...]
Category: CEO Recession Tags: Economy, Recession, Unemployment
by Mark Raskino | February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
One of the great pleasures of being a Brit working for an American company is the exchange of interesting words, phrases, and colloquialisms. For example I recently had to explain ‘cream crackered‘ to someone. This week a great new term arrived on my news alert doorstep from across the pond: ‘shovel ready’. I love it! [...]
Category: CEO Economy Management Recession Strategy Tags: CFO, Economy, Shovel Ready
by Mark Raskino | February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
Are we half way through yet? That’s a question about the recession fewer commentators seem to be asking. Perhaps that itself is a good sign (bull capitulation). Those looking for the half way marker and the turning point will often remind us that government unemployment figures, while interesting, are a lagging indicator. So instead they [...]
Category: CEO Economy Management Recession Strategy Tags: Add new tag, CEO, Jobs, Recession, Unemployment
