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What I learned at the Japan Symposium 2012

Gartner’s annual symposium season is gearing up.  After an appearance in Cape Town South Africa in August, the next stop was Tokyo where more than 500 CIOs and IT executives gathered to discuss the...

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Welcome to the first day of the rest of 2012

It’s the day after Labor Day in the U.S. and the semi-official end of summer.  Financially it is the last month of the third quarter.  It is also the first month when all the tourists have gone home...

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An IT Renaissance is the last thing we need. We need IT Enlightenment.

Conventional wisdom, beliefs and ideas concerning information technology crumble in the face of fundamental technology innovations such as Mobile, Social, SaaS, Big Data and the like.  Removing the...

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What is the average age of your customers?

It is an interesting question and not one most companies consider on an ongoing basis.   The average age of your customer is increasingly important, not just in the Consumer Products industry but in...

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Living in Appland

Appland exists where the availability of technology solutions exceeds your organizations business capability.   Technology becomes greater than IT in Appland as commercially accessible technologies...

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Living in Gapland

The relationship between IT functionality and business capability sets the context for technology in a business.  The prior post “Technology, IT and business in the lands of Apps, Gaps and equilibrium”...

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Technology, IT and Business in the lands of Apps, Gaps and Equilibrium

Take a step back and consider the fundamental assumptions behind IT and it become easy to see IT’s current challenges and future failures.  One of those assumptions is the relationship between IT...

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Digitalization creates new dimensions for disruption

Disruption is the interruption of normal work or practice according to Wikipedia.  In business disruption is the result of deliberate strategies and practices as companies seek to exploit differences...

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2012’s CIO Leadership Challenges — the focus of the forum

Yesterday final CIO Leadership Session finished in Phoenix wrapping up sessions in Dubai and London. Each session concentrated on regional challenges from expanding growth in the gulf, to addressing...

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CIOs express their interests at the 2012 CIO Leadership Forum in Phoenix

After an inspirational story of leadership and building high performing organizations by Pete Goss, the CIO leadership forum kicked off with opening sessions that concentrated on the theme of...

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What I learned at the Japan Symposium 2012

Gartner’s annual symposium season is gearing up.  After an appearance in Cape Town South Africa in August, the next stop was Tokyo where more than 500 CIOs and IT executives gathered to discuss the...

View Article

Welcome to the first day of the rest of 2012

It’s the day after Labor Day in the U.S. and the semi-official end of summer.  Financially it is the last month of the third quarter.  It is also the first month when all the tourists have gone home...

View Article

An IT Renaissance is the last thing we need. We need IT Enlightenment.

Conventional wisdom, beliefs and ideas concerning information technology crumble in the face of fundamental technology innovations such as Mobile, Social, SaaS, Big Data and the like.  Removing the...

View Article


What is the average age of your customers?

It is an interesting question and not one most companies consider on an ongoing basis.   The average age of your customer is increasingly important, not just in the Consumer Products industry but in...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Living in Appland

Appland exists where the availability of technology solutions exceeds your organizations business capability.   Technology becomes greater than IT in Appland as commercially accessible technologies...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Living in Gapland

The relationship between IT functionality and business capability sets the context for technology in a business.  The prior post “Technology, IT and business in the lands of Apps, Gaps and equilibrium”...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Technology, IT and Business in the lands of Apps, Gaps and Equilibrium

Take a step back and consider the fundamental assumptions behind IT and it become easy to see IT’s current challenges and future failures.  One of those assumptions is the relationship between IT...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Digitalization creates new dimensions for disruption

Disruption is the interruption of normal work or practice according to Wikipedia.  In business disruption is the result of deliberate strategies and practices as companies seek to exploit differences...

View Article

2012’s CIO Leadership Challenges — the focus of the forum

Yesterday final CIO Leadership Session finished in Phoenix wrapping up sessions in Dubai and London. Each session concentrated on regional challenges from expanding growth in the gulf, to addressing...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

CIOs express their interests at the 2012 CIO Leadership Forum in Phoenix

After an inspirational story of leadership and building high performing organizations by Pete Goss, the CIO leadership forum kicked off with opening sessions that concentrated on the theme of...

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