Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
By Samuel Greengard CIOs can boost their odds of success by considering these five approaches: View resistance as an opportunity.By now, it’s clear that consumer technology has turned IT upside down. It’s tempting to bemoan the loss of control and complain about the growing challenge of dealing withshadow ITand ageneral defianceto abide by polices. But…
By Samuel Greengard Once upon a time, we were told a wonderful tale about technology simplifying work. It makes sense because a word processor is far more efficient than a typewriter and a Website is much simpler and faster than managing millions of pieces of paper. However, the reality is that today’s technology simply creates…
by Ernie von Simson Apple’s integrated business model is rattling last year’s IT leaders just as minicomputer companies were rattled and ultimately destroyed by the PC and the PC’s “layered” business model two decades ago. When the market moves, even the soundest business strategy cannot withstand such shock waves. And the market is obviously moving…
Just when you thought the iPad could be safely ignored as unimportant to the enterprise, suddenly two related facts have emerged to change our perspective. The first is that a small army of executives now are, dare I say it, proudly, carrying only iPads on business trips. “That’s what I usually do,” said Marc Siry,…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (a very thick rock perhaps built of wireless signal blocking steel-reinforced concrete), you’ve noticed a recent explosion in the number of mobile apps. While most apps are targeted directly at consumers, many enterprises are beginning to see value in custom developed apps designed to increase employee productivity. According…
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple’s betting big that the iPad will be the next great “must have” consumer device. So far, that bet’s looking pretty good as Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) selling about as many iPads as it can make . But the tablet PC is finding a home in businesses too, with what one Google (NASDAQ:…
When I was given this assignment it was posited as a question: Should a CIO consider implementing WAP? My immediate response was absolutely not. My experience with WAP was roughly eight years ago. Back then, it was a light-weight protocol for displaying modified versions of webpages on a small text only screen. To “WAP-ify” a…
Today’s software industry buzzword is “Cloud.” We all know what it is, and some of us are already leveraging Cloud platforms to reduce resource consumption on-premise. Right now, many ISVs are making a black-and-white distinction between Cloud and on-premise platforms. When you’re evaluating software platforms, there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground because many…