
Should There be an IT Leadership Maturity Model?
If there are maturity models for the technology paradigms IT leaders adopt, wouldn't it be possible to develop a maturity model for IT Leadership as well? That is, an IT Leadership maturity model that...
21 Mars 201258min

How Do You Secure Your Extended IT?
Today, organizations are outsourcing more and more of their IT applications, systems, and infrastructure, and moving to the cloud. But can their IT leaders depend solely on the vendors' promises and c...
14 Mars 201257min

Financial Services: From BI to Big Data
While Bi and Analytics are not relatively new concepts for financial services organizations, based on rapidly changing business models, shifting regulatory reforms, the expansion into new markets, and...
7 Mars 201255min

Is Mobility Improving Healthcare Delivery?
Mobility presumably offers advantages in delivering healthcare, and so investments have been made to improve it. What has been the result? Have the investments returned a significant ROI? What specifi...
29 Feb 201255min

Transforming Traditional IT Into Cloud IT
With Cloud computing bringing disruptive and progressive approaches to business transformation, it would seem naïve to think we could adapt Cloud to traditional Enterprise IT norms. Any such attempts ...
22 Feb 201255min

Should Customer Input Govern Innovation?
Traditional wisdom claims that working closely with customers will stimulate innovation but contrarians suggest that working closely with customers yields the predictable, stifles creativity, and misd...
15 Feb 201256min

Looking for a "Demand-Driven" Supply Chain
The old traditional supply chain "pushed products to market." How achievable would it be to turn this around and make it into a "demand-driven" supply chain where all the supply chain partners were al...
8 Feb 201255min

I & O Investments: Technology or Operational excellence?
Today's tight IT budgets have not slowed the rush to adopt cloud, virtualization, etc. But in our rush to spend money to save it, perhaps we may be overlooking the biggest question of all: "What is mo...
1 Feb 201257min





















