This post is a long time coming. In the past few weeks, it has come to a point. Since the start of the year, I have taken part in a number of conversations with fellow CIOs, vendors and those in…
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Proposal for the formation of a US Technology Advisory Council (TAC)
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The CIO Playbook for 2021
The CIO Playbook for 2021. A guide for CIOs to navigate uncertainty in 2021 and beyond.
Unpacking the challenges for SAP and the broader enterprise market
Unpacking the challenges for SAP and the broader enterprise market
Looking into the next decade for the CIO
As we enter the next decade, I thought I would take a slightly unconventional approach to the top eight issues facing CIOs. CIOs are in a unique position to lead their company into new opportunities, and technology is at the…
Assessing the impact of the IBM leadership changes
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 pertains to culture. Second, is the impact to customers including existing IBM customers, Red Hat…
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Five things critical to the future of SAP and their co-CEOs
Just a few days ago, SAP announced earnings and a significant change to their CEO leadership. After a good run leading SAP, Bill McDermott is stepping down to make way for Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein to take co-CEO roles.…
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Throwing more people at the problem no longer works
Technology is hard. Change is hard. And business requirements are changing faster than ever. Yet, as IT professionals, we sit in the nexus of these three things. Our lives are sophisticated, complicated and mixed with a strange inertia that drives…
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How cloud is changing the business and IT landscape
Enterprises around the globe are facing disruption from a number of different directions. To combat this disruption, they increasingly turn to cloud computing. Cloud computing is the single biggest opportunity for organizations to dramatically change how their business operates through…
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IT has a serious credibility problem and does not realize it
One challenge for many IT organizations is that of credibility. In a recent post, I discussed the importance of credibility and the network effect in IT. What is credibility? According to Merriam-Webster, credibility is ‘the quality or power of…
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