Big Data is the start of Systemless Information
Big data is being talked about today, but few IT organizations are grappling with it, yet. Part of this is a chicken-and-egg problem: they don’t have a specific request to respond to, yet, that needs a...
View ArticleThe CIO of the next ten years
I was asked the other day if I thought the Chief Information Officer role would disappear in the decade ahead. After I finished a good, hearty laugh, I explained why I thought all the work done by...
View ArticleCloud futures cloudy without IT rethinking applications
How many more reports pointing out the productivity gap between the promise of IT and the results actually seen in the economy are we going to have to listen to before we get the message? Whatever...
View ArticleBringing beauty to bear to create value
There’s a big problem with technology, and it’s one that CEOs are grappling for a way to express their demand that it change. It’s driving value generation. As Nicholas Carr pointed out (Does IT...
View ArticleThere’s an impulse in IT to bring order to everything. Ignore it.
There’s a constant temptation in management more generally, and IT specifically, to presume that everything not only can be ordered, but that it ought to be. Perhaps, for IT people, it comes from the...
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