This week, the director of Terminator, Aliens and most recenty Avatar was asked about the Gartner Hype Cycle. See what he said in our Hype Cycle book blog post.
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James Cameron and the 3D hype cycle
by Mark Raskino | September 23, 2011 | Comments Off
The UK post-riot debate about banning social media was over simplified.
by Mark Raskino | September 16, 2011 | Comments Off
Early last month I had a minor personal experience of the sociological reaction to economic austerity that I hope will not become the norm in Western Europe, but I fear might. In the aftermath of the London riots the news media first started to provoke politicians and commentators into a simplistic knee-jerk reaction by asking [...]
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“Advanced” nations IT pros, should get some emerging markets attitude
by Mark Raskino | August 31, 2011 | Comments Off
This week I’m back at my desk, working on my “CEO concerns” presentation for the US and European Gartner Symposia. I’m reading and listening to endless economic and market analysis of the prospects for recession, double dip, and ‘the end of the West’. It’s a relentlessly doom laden outlook. It seems as if there is [...]
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Consumerized QR Codes: ‘new’ business trend?
by Mark Raskino | October 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
Last week, Google launched it’s URL shortener service goo.gl which competes with bit.ly and TinyURL , both of which have been around for years and are widely used. However, if you use goo.gl while signed in to a Google account, an additional feature is enabled. The service will generate a QR code as well as [...]
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What would you ask Cisco CEO John Chambers?
by Mark Raskino | September 28, 2010 | Comments Off
On October 20 at Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Ken Dulaney and I will be interviewing Cisco CEO John Chambers for a large audience – most of them CIOs. He’s been chief executive since 1995, growing Cisco to be one the the 100 largest companies in the world today. We get 45 minutes on stage, which [...]
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One way to get your business execs talking technology
by Mark Raskino | September 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
This week I had the privilege of speaking at the annual senior management off-site meeting for Oriflame – a large cosmetics company. These occasions should be a prime internal influencing opportunity for CIOs and other IT leaders. If you can see how the future of the company might benefit from technology change – this is [...]
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The oil spill reminds us: CEOs need real-time information
by Mark Raskino | June 4, 2010 | Comments Off
Back in 2004 my colleague and friend Ken McGee wrote a great book for Harvard Press called ‘Heads-up‘ – about the value of real-time, material information in the hands of senior decision makers. In doing the research for the book he came up with a really powerful question that CIOs and architects should ask when [...]
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Must leaders assume they are being recorded by default in the Digital Age?
by Mark Raskino | May 24, 2010 | Comments Off
Two incidents in UK politics in recent weeks remind us that recording technology is now so cheap and ubiquitous; only a thin veneer of social etiquette prevents our every conversation being recorded and possibly exposed. On 28 April, UK Prime Minister forgot that a press interview wireless microphone he was wearing was switched on and [...]
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M&A Slowly Rising – IT integration projects ahead
by Mark Raskino | March 26, 2010 | Comments Off
As part of our ‘Gartner Predicts’ we suggested there will be a rise in corporate M&A activity this year and next. It’s early days but we may already be seeing the start of that trend. This week, I ran a workshop with CIOs interested in this subject. There were some interesting sub-trends and observations. A [...]
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For all our sakes, corporate IT leaders must defend innovators NOW
by Mark Raskino | February 23, 2010 | 2 Comments
This week I was briefly discussing an application that helps people find ATMs. Someone quipped that usage would be so low, it would be cheaper for the bank to offer a personal concierge to walk individuals to the nearest cash machine. It was witty, it maybe true so far .. and yet it was a [...]
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