Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
The first article in this series, Understanding the ROI of Value Creation, is about safeguarding IT budgets shared an approach to protecting IT budgets by reallocating non-value creating IT spend to efforts creating tangible business value. The second article, How to Recapture IT Spending, then explored ways to recapture non-value IT spending as a means…
The first article in this series about safeguarding IT budgets shared an approach to protecting IT budgets by reallocating non-value creating IT spend to efforts creating tangible business value. While that approach can protect or even expand IT budgets, it may not be enough. A second approach — recapturing non-value creating IT spend — can…
Biz Stone, a co-founder of Twitter, recently spoke at one of our conferences. According to Biz, he and his team first knew they had something at the SXSW conference in Austin, TX. His friends were using an early version of the micro-blogging service to let one another know what bars they were moving to —…
No one knows better than the CIO and IT department how quickly technology is evolving. For that reason, it’s imperative that CIOs be focusing not just on the changes that are happening today, but also on the technological trends that are emerging and shaping the future of your company and your industry. Why? Because the…
If I could offer one idea that will have a huge impact on your success and your satisfaction with work it would be that you give yourself time to think — with purpose. (You can stop reading here if you accept that point!) I work with so many executives that tell me they would be…
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Last month,I wrote about being more relevant by basing your discussions with the business on things they already know and care about. If you need to educate people on what you are doing … you are not relevant. Recently, I’ve come across some data from Gartner which illustrates this issue loud and clear. It shows…
Next-generation asset management (NGAM) was conceived around the idea that enterprise IT is becoming more and more of a business as business services and IT services become more closely intertwined. At its core, the NGAM vision is a simple one: IT services are “products” and so all capex and opex assets associated with IT are…
For some time now, data has been moving around the enterprise at faster and faster speeds. Banks, retailers, communications companies, healthcare providers, and high-tech firms, etc. all have an urgent need to share data across business applications, end-users, and core systems. The emergence of new technologies, most notably message bus solutions, facilitates these new levels…
When I was asked to participate in this series of articles on the alignment of IT within the larger business structure of an organization, my goal was to drive home the overarching impact that cross-functional alignment can have on organizational success. Much like the law of physics which states that inertia is accelerated when forces…