Given all the volatility we have been seeing over the last 12 to 18 months many business leaders must be tearing their hair out in frustration trying set a plan they can keep hold of and work to. Plans need to be revised because key indicators are heading in the wrong direction and some metrics [...]
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Be cautious of a “Single version of the truth”
by Mark Raskino | February 9, 2009 | 3 Comments
Tech doom, gloom and job loss… exaggeration?
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
Could recession speed up lawyer automation?
by Mark Raskino | January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment
The Gartner Fellows maintain an occasional research report for clients called ‘the Research Incubator’. Its a journal of unconventional thinking. We use it to capture leading edge analyst research thinking that is partly formed, challenging, orthogonal or is important but simply doesn’t fit into our existing structures and coverage. In the July 2007 edition (G00150326) [...]
Category: Innovation Recession Strategy Tags: Automation, Expert Systems, Jobs, Lawyer, Recession
Did recession arrive 18 months too early for Cloud?
by Mark Raskino | January 30, 2009 | 5 Comments
In conversations I’ve had with vendors and more leading edge IT users over the last 6 months, most have agreed with this hypothesis. The US recession may have started in the last quarter of 2007, but it took nearly a year to feed through to IT budgets. The need to cut IT costs hit with [...]
Category: Economy Enterprise 2.0 Innovation Strategy Tags: Cloud, Recession
This is what thought leadership looks like
by Mark Raskino | January 21, 2009 | Comments Off
Daryl Plummer didn’t become Chief Gartner Fellow by accident. His most recent post is a ‘must read’. It is personal and it is brave. It would be so much easier for an African American in his position to simply remain quiet and ‘not rock the boat’ or ask awkward questions of us. He challenges the [...]
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Category: IT Industry Management Strategy Tags: Diversity, Gartner Fellows, IT Industry, Thought Leader, Thought Leadership
I saw the future – it was called ‘pay-as-you-drive’
by Mark Raskino | September 22, 2008 | 3 Comments
This month, my pay-as-you-drive car insurance policy finally ends because the provider has terminated the product (the tracking itself was switched off a couple of months ago). For those who didn’t hear of it, this was a radical and futuristic breakthrough business model, which involved tracking the car location by wireless relayed GPS location, in [...]
Category: Innovation Management Strategy Tags: Aviva, GPS, Norwich Union, Pay-as-you-drive, Real World Web, Telematics
How will technology change the way business is done?
by Mark Raskino | September 18, 2008 | Comments Off
That’s my personal ‘key issue’- the question that drives my research and when I look back, it was also at the heart of my career direction prior to joining Gartner 8 years ago. Blogging is a great example. In the end every company will use it to their own particular advantage. They’ll each use it in different ways. [...]
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