Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
The consumerization of IT has been occurring for a number of years now, and it is one of the most disruptive tends the CIO faces; yet it offers amazing business benefits. Will the consumerization trend continue? The answer is yes! Consumerization is a hard trend that will not only continue, but it will accelerate. So…
By now, most firms recognize that data is a business asset, and many are investing millions of dollars in cleaning, managing, securing, and harvesting it. These companies are realizing hard cost reductions and competitive advantage, but these benefits come at a cost because defining and implementing an enterprise data strategy is hard. Over the last…
by Daniel Burrus of Burrus Research One inevitable byproduct of advancing technology and every changing competitive landscape I talk about in part one of this article is commoditization. Someone makes an innovative breakthrough, and by doing so they stand out as unique in their field. However, because of the breakneck speed of technological advance, soon…
In Part I of this two-part report, Seeing the Tech-Tsunami Before the Impact Futurist and CIOUpdate columnist Dan Burrus explored the eight streams within the technological wave — the hard trends of technological advancement: Dematerialization; Virtualization; Mobility; Product intelligence; Networking; Interactivity; Globalization; and Convergence. In Part II, Dan explains the drivers behind those trends and…
As the CIO, you’re responsible for staying abreast of technological changes and making sure your company is using them to increase productivity and efficiency in all areas. But in this second decade of this new century, improving these areas will no longer be enough to provide the competitive advantage your organization will need to stay…
At a time when the cost of doing business has taken a harder hit than almost any other time in recent history, one of the greatest challenges faced by most — if not all — CEOs is the ability to remain focused and true to the vision of an organization while surviving financial stress long…
Cloud computing seems to have struck a chord in a way that application service provider (ASP), On Demand, SaaS and all the previous incarnations never have. Every analyst is blogging and tweeting about it not to mention a slew of conferences around the topic. A surprising number of books have already been published on the…
Building a company that is structured and organized to continuously transform itself as opportunities and threats appear is somewhat of an urban legend these days. This nirvana-like company repeatedly maintains three characteristics: 1. Ongoing assessment of activities: eliminating those that don’t serve the core business strategy; 2. Continual refinement of activities for greater efficiency and…
When a company hires a consultant to assess their systems, they are really asking if everything is being done well. They’re also asking is there anything that should change — and therein lays the rub. Change is difficult for many people and particularly hard if you don’t know why things should change. I’ve had the…
If you want to get your team to actually implement your IT strategy, key initiative or change agenda, watch out for the following: Lack of Clarity – Everyone is clear on the big picture, but really fuzzy about what specific actions to take, what projects to prioritize and what things to measure. They might be…