Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
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…
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…
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,…
CIOs are used to be told to “do more with less”. It’s an annoying, frustrating cliché, yet it’s one CIOs must live up to. Budgets can only be slashed so far, though, and in a terrible economy like this one, jobs are a cost center that sometimes can’t be sustained. Or at least that’s the…
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…
The war is over and, in case you missed it, IT lost. The once ferocious attempts to guard the corporate perimeters against unapproved devices and applications is sputtering to an end because, frankly, all but myopic IT diehards recognize this is battle that’s already over. “Workers are adopting the tools they believe will help them…
Credit the iPad with this: it has triggered a huge hunger for tablets inside corporate America and, guess what, you cannot ignore this, not now. With Apple selling 3.3 million iPads in just its most recent quarter, suddenly tablet mania has hit the nation. “IT has lost control,” said Patrick Sweeney, vice president of product…
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:…
Microsoft updated its Bing search client for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad on Tuesday. The upgraded client, Bing 1.2, adds combined status updates for users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts within Bing, according to a post on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bing Community blog. “Now when you search for something using our Bing app, you’ll…
Today we’re in the midst of several technology paradigm shifts that are spreading faster than anything we’ve seen before ― and that greatly impact organizations and CIOs worldwide. First, there’s the computing hardware shift. Previously, you could only use a computer by accessing a mainframe using a terminal. Then came desktops. Mainframes did not go…