Sometimes things happen that are seemingly unrelated but the timing and topics are alarmingly similar. I was speaking to a technologist about selling Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches to companies. The struggle is that it is very much an IT sell and it should be a business sell. Using my strategy mapping mentality I related […]
Supply and Demand Chain Executive’s article on “2008 Supply and Demand Chain Executives Pros to Know” related the story of James Polak, Director, General Purchasing, PPG Industries. My background in spend analysis revealed a difficulty in getting firms to understand that there are tremendous savings in enabling corporate wide visibility of spend. PPG originally believed […]
Manufacturing Business Technology wrote about “real world” BI acceptance as not matching predictions of think tanks and vendors. My previous post challenged them to consider how market acceptance works before doing surveys and reports of “reality”, i.e., what should be analyzed is the “early adopter” acceptance because they tend to drive acceptance by others. Here […]
Continuing with my comments on Manufacturing Business Technology’s article on BI hype, I can’t help but reveal what I think is the source of this skewering of BI vendors: an “ax to grind”. It appears that the author of the report does not like big BI vendors nor does he understand their role in introducing […]
What good is analyzing trends? Well, first of all you can determine whether you agree with them. Then decide if they will impact you. If so, you need to figure out how to deal with them. The last few posts have done this type of analysis from an “every company” point of view, and here […]
My sum up to CIO Insight’s Top IT Trends in 2008 related to MANAGEMENT reveals a need to focus on centralizing non-IT executive control vs. expanding the CIO role, and cleaning up and innovatively using data already out there for decision-making.
The CIO Insight MANAGEMENT trends of 1. No downturn for CIO role, 2. CIO role […]
Continuing with MANAGEMENT trends in IT from CIO Insight’s Top IT Trends for 2008 , we now deal with graduate shortages, sources of innovation, and one of the most interesting and impactful trends toward Master Data Management:
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CIO Insight: IT grad shortage changes the face of IT- CIOs expect fewer young people to enter the […]
CIO Insight’s Top IT Trends for 2008 were particularly interesting in the STRATEGY and MANAGEMENT areas. My last three posts dealt with STRATEGY. Now I’ll react to the MANAGEMENT trends . First up are the trends related to the role of the CIO and the metamorphosis of IT:
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CIO Insight: No downturn for CIO role- the […]
My sum up to CIO Insight’s Top IT Trends in 2008 related to STRATEGY reveals a need to focus on how projects are managed and controlled and how PMOs contribute to innovation.
The CIO Insight STRATEGY trends of 1. companies slipping into slow-down mode, 2. IT focusing on E-Service, 3. …and preparing for M-Commerce, 4. process […]
Continuing with my reaction to the STRATEGY trends from CIO Insight’s Top IT Trends for 2008 :
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CIO Insight: “Process improvement will drive IT adoption- CIOs see process modeling and management applications as the most important development five to 10 years from now.”
PM411: YES! Business process modeling will technology-enable the innovation process. Still need strong research […]
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