Guest post by Phil Garland I had the opportunity to have lunch with 8 chief financial officers in Denver last week. Our conversation started with why the CFO should care about IT and what they need to know about technology. Our discussion…
Only a few years ago corporations issued corporate-sanctioned devices to employees like the army issues uniforms to new recruits. They sourced them, dispensed them and controlled how they were used. They also called the shots in how they communicated with customers. Back…
The CIO is in a great position to lead sustainability initiatives at a corporation. Why? Because like information technology, corporations must weave sustainability into the fabric of the enterprise to generate the opportunities that companies like The Dow Chemical Company, SAP and…
To see what lies ahead in the coming years for user interfaces, some of my colleagues at PwC recently visited the MIT Media Lab. The researchers behind the “Fluid Interfaces” project are toiling away on dozens of intriguing prototypes that leverage breakthrough…
As you’ve probably heard, it’s happening again. Corporations are decentralizing IT and calling the role of the CIO into question. Between social networking, cloud computing and digital mobility, business units are demanding more than ever from IT. As IT struggles to keep…
When I was setting my clocks back this weekend for Daylight Savings Time, I started thinking about how some CIOs are at risk of getting left behind on social media. The current situation is similar to what transpired at the dawn of e-Commerce back…
In the October 2011 Wired, Steven Levy writes about how the scroll bar has disappeared in Apple’s latest desktop operating system, code-named Lion. Instead of using a mouse to point and drag to move the page up and down, Lion changes the…
Last year, I posed the question if Apple’s barrier to business adoption of the iPad was handwriting recognition. In fact at the time I thought that without a better data input method, the iPad would only be really useful as an information…
Every summer, I spend a week camping with my kids’ Boy Scout troop. This year, we had the opportunity to camp, hike and fish in the Colorado Rockies near Pike’s Peak. A by-product of a week away from constant email, phone calls…
I was recently at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (where PwC is a Patron) for their summer briefings. Andy McAfee, is one of the regular guests and told some stories contrasting the degree of difficulty in finding the information we…
How often do the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) have common cause to work together? More often than you might think. The IT department and the technology resources and skills they contain are among those most in demand…
Guest post by Dan Eckert In my last post about going mobile in the enterprise I talked about some fundamentals for going mobile in your business. In brief, I said there were three things you should know about mobile in the enterprise…
