Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Most of us remember the admonishment from the heady days of the 1990’s Internet craze that “content is King.” Like most trite bits of purported wisdom from those days it has since been disproved, and in its debunking lies a lesson for savvy CIOs. It is difficult to think of an industry more tied to…
Cutting IT budgets may not be easy, but when you know where to slice, the savings can add up. Here are some tips from six experts on how it can be done: Do an inventory. Just maybe the biggest IT savings come from “cleaning out the closet,” says Peter S. Greis, principal, IT Planning &…
As we enter 2009 in a financial crisis, companies may be tempted to scale back and wait for a better day. Is this the right approach? Perhaps not, according to Bobby Cameron, vice president and principal analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research. Cameron, who predicts the recession will end in the second half of 2009,…
SAN FRANCISCO — What exactly is the cloud, and why should a company want to go there? That was the question put to four tech executives on a panel here at the Web 2.0 Summit Thursday. Cloud computing, the sexy name for Web-based applications, is a hot topic that’s been heating up even more recently…
The RACI model is commonly used in business to define responsibilities and accountabilities for project, however it is not often used to ensure all responsibilities are covered after a major organizational transformation. A RACI—responsible, accountable, consulted, informed—can be used to track a process flow and hand-offs, and as the foundation to effect change in behavior….
In a perfect world, the implementation of a service oriented architecture (SOA) in your organization will help better align IT services with those day-to-day business processes in which your colleagues, customers, and partners engage. Yet, in order to reap the promise of SOA, the prudent CIO must wrangle both organizational and technology oriented challenges—keeping an…
Despite the fact organizations worldwide are deferring capital expenditures, outsourcing continues to be the number one tool chosen to drive organizational change, according to EquaTerra’s Advisor and BPO/ITO Service Provider Pulse Survey 3Q08. The findings show demand for outsourcing is outpacing business investments in areas such as hardware, software or other types of more discretionary…
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect, speaking at PDC 2008 LOS ANGELES – The introduction of Windows Azure Monday at the Professional Developer’s Conference seems to put Microsoft on a collision course with every app hosting vendor on the market, in particular Salesforce.com. Doug Hauger, general manager of the cloud infrastructure services unit at Microsoft…
Although companies will reduce their IT spending because of the economic meltdown, it’s not going to be all doom and gloom for the IT industry. System integrators and consultants will get a boost from the crisis in the financial sector, say analysts, as institutions that have taken over or bought others seek to align their…
Staples, the world’s biggest office products supplier, is jumping into the IT sourcing market offering up security, on-site tech and data back-up services for small-to medium-sized (SMB) businesses. The move puts the $27 billion retailer shoulder to shoulderwith tech titans EMC (NYSE: EMC), HP and IBM that are battling to increase SMB market share given…