Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
I recently spent two days talking to Fortune 1000 CIOs at one of those swanky Sonoran desert summits that is probably best described as speed dating for geeks. Fifteen hours of focused conversations with a cross section of CIOs reveals a lot about the state of an industry and the state of mind for IT…
Anxious to read IBM’s 2011 biannual CIO study The Essential CIO? If you are, I can save you a lot time. At 72 pages, I found the report a slog overall. Although there’s lots of white space and diagrams that make the read a bit easier, the first 85% of the report was a trudge,…
LAS VEGAS: How do you transform IT, when your business is already IT? That’s the task that faces the CIO of Cisco. Rebecca Jacoby has been at Cisco for the last 16 years and has been the CIO for just over four years. During an in-depth discussion at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas…
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…
In my February column, Making the Case for Information Governance we looked at three reasons that information governance (IG) make sense: We can’t keep everything forever; We can’t throw everything away; and E-Discovery. In this column, I want to build on this list by adding three more reasons why CIO should be investing in IG:…
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…
I find it interesting is that most companies do one of two extremes when it comes to succession planning: 1. Nothing at all; and/or 2. A very cumbersome process with lots of documents and checkpoints for multiple candidates which never amounts to anything. Let’s find something in the middle … Get someone ready Think about…
The cloud has changed the role of IT, of that there is no doubt. But fears that the CIO will become extinct because of it are overblown. Instead, the role will likely be redefined. “The traditional CIO must shift his or her focus from cost efficient delivery of infrastructure to strategic utilization of infrastructure,” explained…
Face facts: CEOs do not trust CIOs. To them, a call from the CIO is like a call from their auto mechanic. Before he hangs up, the CEO knows he will be pressured to spend money on something he doesn’t understand but probably needs. He’s just not sure why. What’s a “valve job”? What’s a…
Data center migration day is a great excuse for getting rid of those things that just seem to be hanging on and taking up space. No, not your co-workers, but the old hardware, apps and data that no longer serve a purpose. In this fifth article in a six-part series, Logicalis technologist Brett Anderson helps…