CIO Strategic Advisors
Last week, IBM announced a few significant leadership changes that put a lot of things in play. First, is IBM’s sheer leadership challenge as it…
Continue reading → Assessing the impact of the IBM leadership changes
Amazon continues to drive forward with innovation at a blistering pace. At their annual re:Invent confab, Amazon announced dozens of products to an audience…
Continue reading → Amazon drives cloud innovation toward the enterprise
While 2016 is quickly coming to a close, it offers plenty to reflect on. For the CIO, IT organizations and leaders who work with technology,…
For years now, different communications solutions have come and gone. Just about every major enterprise player has had a solution at one time or another.…
Continue reading → Understanding the Communications Conundrum: What is the goal?
A recent post on changing the language of IT is getting quite a bit of attention among CIOs. Continuing the theme around changing the language…
Continue reading → Shifting the mindset from projects to products
Over the past few years, I have outlined my thoughts for the upcoming year. You can read those from past years here: Cloud Predictions for…
The subject of IT relevance is a hotly contested subject. According to Forrester, 41% of business decision-makers believe that IT is an impediment to accelerating…
Continue reading → #CIOitk: Is IT still relevant? The conversation is heating up!
Over the course of a career, employees may take part in one or two acquisitions. Over the course of my career, I was part of…
For those that follow my writing, this post may have a familiar ring to it. Unfortunately, there is a reason I’m writing about this yet…
For twenty years, IT pitched itself as the ‘change agent’ in the company. More specifically, IT was positioning itself as the provocateur to bring increased…
Continue reading → Will the real change agent please stand up?