In the last past 20 years, CIOs have led the only business function which has cut unit costs many hundredfold. In storage, processing and other elements of service delivery, costs have tumbled as managers have taken advantage of improved technology and refined their processes.
In a single five year period, unit costs in client/server decreased by [...]
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Metering IT consumption
21.Apr.2010: News & Comment Digest
Posted Four things some VCs do that I don’t like.
Posted An analysis of an investment guru: Ron Conway Explained.
Posted Five Rules for Competing with Giants.
Posted Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring.
Posted McKinsey – Interview with Shell CIO Alan Matula.
Posted Gartner’s 2010 BPM Cool Vendor List.
Posted Screven Delivers on MySQL Promises, But Judges’ Votes Uncertain.
Posted [...]
Managing for Risk & Compliance
Strengthen compliance. Reduce risk. Improve security. And do all of this while cutting costs. These are all big priorities for CIOs, CEOs ad their counterparts in executive management. But how do you accomplish this? It seems like reducing costs while achieving better compliance, lower risk, and increased security are contradictory goals. However, you can make [...]
Does bad IT = bad CEO?
In an interview at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando 2009, HP CEO Mark Hurd was asked about the interplay between IT and business processes. His response was:
“At the end of the day, [the CEO has] gotta get this part [business processes] of the business right to be able to align IT throughout the company. It’s [...]
Zen and the art of change management
Just as John Sutherland, the narrator’s friend in the bestseller “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” refused to learn to maintain his expensive new bike, always hoping for the best and when problems occurred he became frustrated and was forced to rely on professional mechanics to repair the bike, many of today’s IT organisations [...]
Are the new generation of CIOs more communicative than the old?
I am not sure if it is a generation gap or just the demands of the world that we live in. Let me explain….
We all know about the necessity of aligning IT with business and the associated IT transformation programmes to support this alignment. The reality is that IT complexity drives specialised skills working in [...]
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