What it takes to be a successful CIO today

Four different views from Mike Tonkiss, Adam Burstow, Colin Beveridge and Dave Hansen

IT – last one out please turn off the lights

I stand by my assertion that nobody needs a Chief Information Officer because I believe we need to move forward from the redundant IT-centric paradigm towards a world of truly effective systems. My campaign is to coagulate the necessity for change into a concrete vision of the future state.

Please note that I am proposing an even more important future for Continue reading article »

Open Source vs the global downturn?

Confused of Calcutta is JP Rangaswami ‘s popular blog and a fixture on my own blogroll. JP has put forward some thoughts on survival strategies for dealing with the economic downturn. His argument describes how the corporate immune system switches effortlessly into a “not invented here” mindset and JP then exhorts CIOs to embrace opensource solutions as a cost reduction strategy, Continue reading article »

Long Live the CIO!

No, I haven’t done a spectacular u-turn. In my earlier posting (Nobody needs a Chief Information Officer) I promised to write more about my vision for the future role of the CIO as Chief Integration Officer so here it is as a summary view…

There are probably as many interpretations of the role of Chief Information Officer as there are Continue reading article »

Survival of the quickest

In my view, the worldwide financial crisis is clear evidence that many fundamental parts of our global economy lack effective information systems. The circumstantial evidence for this is the dreadful ease with which so many have been blind-sided so quickly by events.

That’s why I was pleased to see Richard Dennison’s blog this morning, which makes a clarion call today for Continue reading article »

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