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Rafa Nadal’s game is Digital to the Core – is yours?
This is this first week of Wimbledon and Rafael Nadal is on form. #2 in the world singles rankings and fresh from his win at the Roland Garros French Open on clay, this time his target is winning the...
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Why CEOs should test big digital business ideas in tiny countries.
Last week the very first regular commercial drone delivery service commenced. It’s likely you have heard of many such experiments around the world over the last few years, but this was the first...
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Why CEOs should hang tech-washing out to dry
During his address to the American nation on April 30th 1973, President Richard Nixon provided his now famous line “there can be no Whitewash at the White House”. The analogy of using white paint to...
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CEOs Must End Digital Business Planning Paralysis
Something I’ve noticed in a few interactions this year, has been too much planning for digital business innovation. We meet with some technology and business executives who have been strategizing and...
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Why are CEOs not driving productivity?
Economists across the world are both puzzled and concerned about an apparent dip in long term productivity growth. Their worries are giving rise to frequent business news editorials about the issue. It...
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Ten Video Examples of Digital Product Remastery
As we have said many times over the last few years: every industry will be digitally remastered. That means its products and services will become significantly digital. The digital proportion of what...
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What’s most important to digital business success?
“What do you think is the single most important factor for digital business success?”. I was asked that question recently. It was half way up a mountain, at an executive retreat in a beautiful meeting...
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CEOs – Use Three Questions To Find Your Leapfrog Digital Business Strategy
Recently I read a business news article about a techquisition. A large traditional model company bought a smaller online-only company that had invaded its sector. They paid a high price. The writer...
View ArticleThree questions CEOs should ask on the iPhone’s 10th birthday
Reading the tech news today, I learned that it is the 10th anniversary of the launch of the first Apple iPhone. That decade really did fly past quickly didn’t it? I remember the decade before that as...
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Rafa Nadal’s game is Digital to the Core – is yours?
This is this first week of Wimbledon and Rafael Nadal is on form. #2 in the world singles rankings and fresh from his win at the Roland Garros French Open on clay, this time his target is winning the...
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Why CEOs should test big digital business ideas in tiny countries.
Last week the very first regular commercial drone delivery service commenced. It’s likely you have heard of many such experiments around the world over the last few years, but this was the first...
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Why CEOs should hang tech-washing out to dry
During his address to the American nation on April 30th 1973, President Richard Nixon provided his now famous line “there can be no Whitewash at the White House”. The analogy of using white paint to...
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CEOs Must End Digital Business Planning Paralysis
Something I’ve noticed in a few interactions this year, has been too much planning for digital business innovation. We meet with some technology and business executives who have been strategizing and...
View ArticleWhose cloud? The business strategy question every CEO should consider.
Before we get into this important issue I have to declare a disinterest. I’m not a cloud analyst at Gartner. I don’t cover the vendors or their offerings. I can’t tell you which one is best under...
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A story chart of the corporate information age
It was nineteen-eighty-something. “Information technology, is a societal, epochal technology” said my university lecturer, quoting a translated Japanese author (that made the insight seem even more...
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CEOs should stop saying this about tech
Here’s something that I sometimes hear CEOs and other business leaders say – and seemingly without much forethought. “Of course, the technology is the easy bit..” It’s one of those trite phrases that...
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A CEO Question: Start With Culture OR Tech?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pestoverde/26666393696/ Recently I was asked this rather smart question by the CEO of a financial services company. He knows they must embark on a digital transformation...
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If there’s a double dip ahead, CEOs should refocus – not reverse
I recently published a Gartner research note of suggested technology related ‘resolutions’ for chief executives (paywall). It’s a list of pointers to things they can consider doing, to help improve...
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Three observations on the B word
Just a quick reminder – what follows is one senior analyst sharing some thoughts. It is not a Gartner position. Blogs are un-reviewed personal writings, not published research. In my job as a Gartner...
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CEOs might ponder… is there no IT anymore?
Might the term “IT” become lost in the sands of time? Nearly one fifth of the 21st century is behind us already – gosh time flies. Generation Z, those who were born in the 2000s, are now entering the...
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