There is a lot of attention today on the plethora of user devices entering the workplace. CIOs are at best coping with the onslaught. But a focus on BYOD is not dissimilar to a focus on thunder when it is the lightening that one should worry about. Byod is merely a symptom of the transition […]
Do you know what you are worth? That is do you know what the market is willing to pay to secure your services? And do you know what steps you might take to increase your worth? Rather than consume brain power fretting about job security and scheming how to side step the boot, why not […]
I am encountering many IT leaders who are concerned that they cannot reconcile the need to support every new user device that hits the market. This most likely reflects the world they grew up in, whereby users were spoon-fed and developed the lazy habit of seeking help rather than opening the user manual or just […]
Big data is the talk of the town. It converges the themes of data, information, video and social media amongst others to provide the vendors at least with a model to sell more services. Big data presents a danger in that soon many organisations will be awash with data flowing into the organisation like sewers […]
The enterprise end-game is in full swing. The main players including IBM, Cisco, EMC, Microsoft and HP to name a few are jostling for a piece of the datacentre and.the Cloud. They figure that the game is to be one of a handful of super-utilities serving mips and megabytes to the world's largest corporations. However […]
In the information economy organisations need to have information governance in place. The role should sit within the CIO's remit, given the second letter of the acronym. The fact that the CIO does not typically sit in the senior management team suggests that many organisations are unaware of the importance of information and its value […]
Gartner introduced us to the concept of digital natives and digital immigrants. The former were born into a web-centric world, the latter were not. This model helps us to understand how the needs / aspirations of the younger generation might differ from their parents. But as we move deeper into the digital economy, simply being […]
Mankind from a consumer perspective has generally benefited from the Industrial era; more choice and lower prices. But from a work perspective the benefits have been less obvious. Prior to the Industrial revolution (approximately a quarter of a million years) we were paid on what we produced, eg. caught rabbit, reared cow, built cart. Then […]
There is a reason that the Chief Marketing Officer has the ear of the CEO and CFO and that the CIO doesn’t. The CMO is responsible for the organisation’s brand, but her number one priority is the brand of her department. A strong departmental brand captures the attention of the c-suite which in turn allows […]
I attended a very interesting breakfast seminar on outsourcing hosted by AT Kearney. A number of key points emerged including the importance of treating the relationship between the buyer of the outsourcing services and the supplier as a marriage as opposed to a purely commercial arrangement. This clearly requires a great deal of trust and […]