Over the past couple of years we’ve all heard more and more talk about the potential for IT to transform business and drive innovation and profitability – and hand-in-hand with this, the potential for CIOs to be seen as in charge of IT groups that are true ‘strategic business enablers’ rather than simple cost centres. [...]
Posted on Friday, September 9, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonUncategorized
The “G” word is one of those words that’s bandied about with increasing abandon these days – but for many, “governance” is just a more sexy way of saying “management” (in the same way that “architecture” is quite often used as a sexy way of saying “design”). So how much are organisations really walking the [...]
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 by adminA few days ago the results of our second CIO UK poll were published in this piece – CIO Debate: Collaboration is building momentum in 2009. The poll corroborated earlier research that we carried out for our Collaboration advisory service in the summer of last year, in conjunction with the guys at Freeform Dynamics. The [...]
Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 by adminA few weeks back I highlighted that we’d just started running the first in a series of short polls in conjunction with CIO UK (part of the international network of CIO magazines) – with a poll focused on how CIOs expect their spending to change in 2009, given the current economic climate. The first poll [...]
Posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 by adminThat’s the title of a short online poll that we’re now running, in conjunction with CIO.co.uk – the online presence of CIO Magazine in the UK (the sister of the “big brother” CIO Magazine in the US). If you’re in a senior IT management role, we’d really like to hear about how the economic situation [...]
Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Over here is the first of what we hope will be a series of podcasts with CIOs who’ve instigated work to improve IT-business alignment in their organisations. The interview is with New Zealand-resident Peter Burggraaff, until recently the CIO of NZ retail chain Farmers Trading Company. It follows on from the work we did last [...]
Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 by admin
