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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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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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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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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by Mark Raskino | January 25, 2010 | 3 Comments
It may be tempting to use up a chunk of your precious reading and browsing time this week watching the media-fest surrounding the launch of Apple’s new portable device. However,there are bigger issues. The direction of the economy is volatile and the recent bullishness of your business team may start to waver. So as a [...]
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by Mark Raskino | January 11, 2010 | Comments Off
Most people have been back at work for a week after the holidays… so what will you do with 2010? Despite better economic news it’s going to be another fairly tough year. Though growth is back, your business still needs more cost cuts – but there’s no low hanging fruit left. So how about picking [...]
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by Mark Raskino | January 8, 2010 | 8 Comments
There’s been a lot of news about e-book reader devices coming out of CES this week. Amazon’s Kindle seems to have the market lead so far and they recently added the DX to their international range. Since October, the Kindle International version has allowed people living outside the United States to use the wireless capability [...]
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by Mark Raskino | December 17, 2009 | Comments Off
At the beginning of 2009 we noticed a pattern in CEO story-lines. Announcing annual results, business leaders would comment on the unexpected banking bombshell of 3Q 08, the consequences for their industry and the sudden loss of business. An emergency cost cutting action plan was already underway and the company was safe and stabilising in [...]
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by Mark Raskino | December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
This week the Business Roundtable (an association of the Chief Executives of large companies) posted it’s quarterly confidence index. The number was positive, in line with the belief that the US is coming out of recession and a return to growth is on the cards for 2010. However expectations of a US employment increase have [...]
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by Mark Raskino | October 29, 2009 | Comments Off
I’ve noticed a distinct change of business attitudes to e-commerce in Europe this year. A lot more companies that didn’t take it seriously in the past are now making it key to their strategies. For example in September Inditex said it will be bringing its Zara brand into e-tail next year and H&M made a [...]
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