Mike Lynch wants to fix digital supply – European CEOs must fix demand
I read an interesting article this weekend about what Mike Lynch (founder and former CEO of Autonomy) is doing now. He’s continuing what one might call his life’s work – creating highly successful,...
View ArticleIT enabled competitive leaders are sometimes 15 years ahead of laggards
Over the last few weeks, I have been reminded just how far ahead some businesses are in the great race of the information age. We are now at that stage of the marathon where the field is stretching out...
View ArticleObservations on Glassdoor’s top CEOs list
Last week glassdoor.com, a business social networking site, published its 2013 listing of the top 50 CEOs as rated by their own employees. The list is always interesting to review. It has limitations...
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Executive search consultants tell us digital leadership skills are hot
At our CIO leadership forum event in London in March, Dave Aron and I ran a panel discussion session with 4 top executive search consultants who specialise in information and technology leadership...
View ArticleCIOs can learn from our experience – as the international press reports our...
[ Update - more articles added, from the FT, WSJ and others ] Our new survey results show that half of CEOs can’t name a company in their industry that they admire for its use of IT. That’s not a...
View ArticleWhy Enterprise Architects should pay very close attention to their CEOs
“We use words like honor, code, loyalty…we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use ‘em as a punchline.” Colonel Jessup ( Jack Nicholson ) in the movie A Few Good...
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Is American science and technology slowing down?
It is one of the big anxiety questions in modern business thinking. On the one hand economists like Tyler Cowan believe the fundamental rate of innovation is slowing. On the other hand economists like...
View ArticleShouldn’t we be seeing a rise in industry collaborative platforms?
Recently I noticed a Bloomberg news story suggesting that Visa Inc. might buy Visa Europe. Visa was founded decades ago as a cooperative organisation by many banks, to manage payment processing...
View ArticleSpanish hopes, fears and technology
Last week I spent a couple of excellent days in Madrid and Barcelona. In my conversations with people, I was quickly reminded that this is a country in deep and continuing economic trouble. Some told...
View ArticleDublin’s new direction: from destruction to digital
I’m a bit uncomfortable with the destruction part of the Schumpeter term “creative destruction”. Many economic thinkers believe it is a required process and that progress cannot be made without...
View ArticleThe 2013 Gartner Hype Cycles are coming soon
The Hype Cycle is one of Gartner’s longest standing research tools. Our clients use it annually, to help filter the deluge of new technology and innovation opportunities they might choose to adopt....
View ArticleHow much do chief strategy officers matter, to CIOs ?
“Leaders who put their faith in strategy units are abdicating their responsibilities” [ Sir Terry Leahy, former CEO of Tesco ] I chose Terry Leahy’s quote because he has been regarded as one of the...
View ArticleSoon perhaps, there will be no good “undigital” paths to growth
This week my colleague Ken McGee pointed out an article in the Wall Street Journal that provides more evidence of the end of the great BRICS story. Western business belief in BRICS as the big growth...
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Should services companies switch from Innovation to R&D?
This week I have been finalizing our new annual CEO research survey. One of the questions asks about investment intent for next year, in various areas of the business – marketing, operations, capital...
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CEOs must invest declining un-digital revenues wisely
Have you ever heard of “Chapter 33“? It’s a sarcastic Wall Street joke term for a company that has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy 3 times. The fact that this has ever happened, serves to remind us of...
View ArticleThe return of strategically inventive IT leadership – at last.
With enormous relief, over the course of this year I have come to the conclusion that we are at last returning to the idea of truly, strategically, inventive IT leadership. It’s an idea that has been...
View Article5 Facts About Chief Data Officers
Whenever a new job role or title emerges in business, the reaction is usually a mixture of confusion, misinformation, conflation and denial. My role as a Gartner analyst is to help in creating...
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Every Industry Will be Digitally Remastered
The title of this post, is the title of a presentation I have been giving at our Symposiums in the US and Japan. Next week I will deliver it in Barcelona ( session link here ). It’s a position. It’s...
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Another CEO declares: we will be a technology business
This week I attended an interview presentation at the UK’s Institute of Directors ( IoD ) . The interviewee was Simon Calver, the CEO of Mothercare – a 52 year old British high street retailer with...
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“Every company is a technology company”– more and more evidence..
The quote in the title of this post comes from Peter Sondergaard‘s section of the Gartner Symposium keynote 2013. I just keep on seeing more examples that show how it is true. This week I noticed 3...
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