Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
State and local agencies are under constant pressure to provide high-quality services to citizens while managing budget reductions. While some economic indicators are improving, agency budgets are not forecasted to recover in the short term. According to an August survey by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), The 2010 State CIO Survey:…
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 —…
From Facebook feeds and YouTube videos to sales and customer data, individuals and enterprises have become constant generators of digital content. In fact, according to a 2009 blog post by Andreas Weigend in the Harvard Business Review, more data was generated in 2009 than in the entire history of mankind. This onslaught of data is…
Despite the apparent economic recovery, many companies continue to focus on cost-reduction and, in the process, persist in demanding reduction of already-stressed IT budgets. In this environment, creative approaches are required to ensure availability of funding for critical IT services and initiatives. One way IT executives can safeguard their IT budgets and preserve funding for…
Some think a converged infrastructure is nerd-vana. Some have never tried to build one. In this series of six articles, we’ll look at what a converged infrastructure is, and what it isn’t. You’ve read the stories about a dynamic data center environment consisting of pools of high-performing computing resources that can be centrally managed, readily…
I have always approached my role as CIO with the mindset that IT has to be more involved in the business in order to help the company. The Journey to the Future-State CIO framework from the CIO Executive Council immediately struck me as a good model with specific goals for advancing my own role and…
People with talent often make the rest of us believe that being a great artist is “easy”. Of course, what most people don’t think about is the years and years of hard work and dedication that goes into a seemingly effortless performance. Nor, more importantly, do they care. The same goes for IT. Unless you…
Every revolution throughout history has been the result of an evolution — evolving thoughts, needs and capabilities. The move to services thinking is no different. In today’s world, services oriented architecture (SOA) proposes more reusability across enterprises, which decreases development effort, time, and cost. These benefits can help organizations as they face budget shortfalls, are…