Great CIOs identify the great IT endeavor of their time
I’m often asked whether the CIO should report to the CEO and why. About 40% do; the majority don’t – even in this digital age when tech seems so important to everything. Looking back at the last 15...
View ArticleFrom CIO to CEO – holiday gift ideas to inspire digital thinking
At this time of year I am busy co-writing our annual CIO resolutions report and analyzing the early data returned from our new annual CEO survey. It made me think about the relationship between the...
View ArticleWhen 30% of mainstream company news is tech-related – it’s going to be an...
Wednesday January 15th 2014 was a classic dull, grey, wet day across the UK – as seen from my airplane window, on a day trip from London to Glasgow. The flights gave me the luxury of time to properly...
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Hype cycle visualization reveals some insights on the state of technology
Recently I returned to one of my amateur hobby projects: data visualization. The dataset from all of Gartner’s published hype cycle reports, is a good size to play with. There are over 2000 technology...
View ArticleTwo new data officer appointments confirm the main trends but challenge another
This week I have noticed two new major Chief Data Officer (CDO) appointments, showing that this C-suite trend is continuing to progress steadily. We do not believe it’s a fad. As enterprises slowly...
View ArticleWhy it might be time to gracefully retire “digital native”
My conversations with Gartner clients over the last few months have usually centered, one way or another, on the big shift to digital business and how to organize for it. The interactions are usually...
View ArticleOur 2014 CEO survey found many say D, but think E
Last week we published the Gartner CEO and senior business executive survey. This is an annual global survey of over 400 of the most senior business executives at large companies. The findings are...
View ArticleAt our “CRM” event I’ll suggest marketing will be disrupted again, this time...
Recently I have been developing the keynote for Gartner’s annual “CRM” Summit event in London. I place CRM in quotes because though this event has been running many years - it isn’t actually called...
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Six data points from the 2014 Gartner CEO and Senior Executive Survey
We have just about completed our collection of published research from the 2014 survey. Clients can find the various reports full of analysis and actionable advice, via this ‘top view’ report Here...
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My new camera illustrates digital business issues
Last week, I went out and bought a new camera for myself. I’m a frugal kind of guy – this doesn’t happen often. Once a decade really. I knew what I wanted, did my homework and I was very pleased with...
View ArticleThree examples of the future cost of being a digital business laggard
Nobody is a digital business laggard yet. True digital business as Gartner sees it, involves blurring the physical and virtual worlds in ways that have only recently started to become possible as a...
View ArticleCEOs – if the “Googazon” can reinvent your industry’s products and services,...
Some news items from this year, so far: Google announces cars that will one day drive themselves. Amazon gets serious about drone delivery experiments Google partners with Luxottica to develop AR...
View ArticleCEOs take note: it’s an Internet of Products too.
The Internet of Things is a curious name for what happens when objects other than computers, start to become electronically networked. With this capability we might take sensor data from them, to...
View ArticleThe digital disruption of tobacco. Part 1: all CEOs must learn from this.
My son is currently reading “Being Digital” by Nicholas Negroponte. He’s already impressed by how well it predicted the digital disruption of the media and music industries. But that is now a very old...
View ArticleIs Digital vs IT a generational leadership divide?
Recently I was interviewing a couple of digital leaders about what drives them and what digital means. They mentioned several things that separate digital from IT but one surprised me. It was a sense...
View ArticleA big strategy question for CEOs: how many cloud places will consumers need?
Recently I took a photo of Copenhagen airport on a beautiful sunny morning, shortly after take-off. I used my phone of course. When I landed and the device connected again, that photo joined all my...
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South Africa has Digital Officers too.
Last week I attended Gartner’s annual Symposium in Cape Town. It’s always one of the most enjoyable events on our global circuit. The thoughtfulness and positive energy of South African IT leaders is...
View ArticleWill the internet of products need digital ownership certificates?
Recently, some suspicious cell phone towers were discovered in the United States. It is believed they are spy towers – listening in on calls and or tracking people. It’s not known who put them there....
View ArticleCEOs should note this week’s Air France story, when designing digital...
Yesterday, the CEO of Air France KLM tried to end a very damaging labour dispute with these words : “With the withdrawal of the Transavia Europe project, there is now no reason to strike because there...
View ArticleBusiness leaders: in the Internet of Things, remember products need names.
Recently, I was using a gym in a hotel I visit once a year. The management had replaced all the fitness machines and I was keen to discover what the latest equipment can do. There was better...
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