Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Faced with this latest period of tumult and uncertainty in the tech industry (and the economy in general), how should CIOs respond? Almost certainly, some emerging companies with promising products or services, will run through their cash or otherwise fail to achieve reasonable scale. Or they’ll fall victim to first mover dis-advantage and be eclipsed…
While the IT world has largely embraced the cloud as an enabler of innovation and an efficient ax for cost cutting, traditional software vendors are left reeling. For one thing, the switch to cloud means an end to front-end licensing and ongoing maintenance revenues and a steep increase in short-term costs associated with re-architecting. In…
Some love a few of them. Many hate a whole lot of them. And some that used to love just one now detest them (or vice versa). Yes, it is a thin line between love and hate when it comes to the CIO and the software vendors they depend on. One possible approach is to…
While world-class procurement organizations continue to outperform their peers in driving supplier diversity spending according to a new study by The Hackett Group. The study identified several critical ways that most companies fail in their supplier diversity programs. Hackett’s latest research found that companies with world-class procurement organizations commit 33% more of their spend to…
Almost overnight it would seem Twitter has come out of left field to take over the micro-blogging world (or, depending on your perspective, create it). From CNN to the Fortune 500, Twitter is making huge in-roads into the our culture. You can use it to post whatever’s on your mind or search it like a…