Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
The early November news had to rock the old computing industry titans: now Citibank and Bank of America both are eyeballing possible adoption of the iPhone. This comes on top of an already extraordinary year for Apple which, little by little, is sneaking into the biggest businesses. At Citrix Systems, for instance, employees who want…
IT’s alignment with the business is critical to the success of an organization. My experience as CIO of Mannatech, Inc., working with business executives to achieve results for our supply chain management project, confirmed this to me. Such alignment often entails the willingness of key leaders to collaborate and focus on the execution and delivery…
Vision: The art of seeing things invisible, as Jonathan Swift once wrote. Visionary executives, we submit, are those who not only see possibilities in plain sight, but who also possess a unique mixture of skills, abilities and leadership that can make the impossible happen. They are individuals who can marshal the resources and people around…
In my last post I promised this time I would describe my search for a definition of “our kind” of architecture that was not a fancy synonym for design and that could encompass varieties of architecture as diverse as enterprise, information technology, information systems architecture, solution architecture, infrastructure, network, software, application, management, security, process, service-oriented…
In the past few years, IT has enabled a sea-change in the way businesses are run. From green screens to Web 2.0, we have come a long way. But one concern that never goes away is whether the IT investments being made are worth the money, and whether they will stand the test of time….