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Enterprise Architecture (EA) starts out being misunderstood, like an adolescent suffering an identity crisis. In the last article, we discussed what EA is, and how organizations can it as an effective tool to create a blueprint for a business aligned &…
Without exception all industry sectors and corporations are seeking the means to achieve Smart IT. One which delivers effectively, within budget, continues to be relevant, impacts business outcomes positively and provides a competitive edge. This is a …
In an increasingly global marketplace, the decision to outsource, and more than often than not, to offshore based service delivery centres, has become a strategic choice for many organisations. These offshore service delivery centres could be external …
A typical modern organization depends on Information Technology (IT) to keep track of its customers and transactions, automate processes and disseminate information to its stakeholders. This implies that a growing organization necessitates an ever-in…
Cometh the moment, cometh the man! The biggest challenge in front of the modern CIO is to wade through all the clutter and hype, to create a robust IT infrastructure which efficiently supports the business goals of his organization. There are disr…
Growing a multimillion dollar corporation during a recession is no small feat and it’s no accident. Companies that are swimming against the economic tide are doing things differently than those that are treading water, or worse, drowning. So, what exactly separates the best from the rest? In a world of tech-empowered consumers and employees, companies that are bucking the economic trend exhibit key behaviors that allow them to exploit technology and weave it into their […]
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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 quickly got to the topic of the roles of the CIO in this changing world of cloud, mobility and social networking. These enabling technologies have made technology much more accessible to non-IT users […]
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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 Intel have orchestrated. Their successes are featured in: “Sustainability: Moving from Compliance to Leadership.” To generate revenue, Dow Chemical created a Sustainability Chemistry Index, which increased its sales of sustainable chemistry products between […]
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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 technologies such as gestures, haptics, wearable computing, 3D, projection, and data visualization, to name a few. While some of the user interface designs are useful but not necessarily transformative, such as the digital […]
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Early this morning, while glancing through the latest tweets on my iphone, I was attracted by last post from Richard Veryard on slideshare: Preamble Good slideshow though, but since I felt that it is going a bit in many different directions, I felt that I had to react on this one, directly on my blog to […]
There are many challenges that CIO’s are facing in today’s cloudy, jargony, swirling maelstrom of Information Technology. But isn’t there something missing in the conversation that totally supersedes these challenges?