A change agent CIO, his real strategic stake.
CIO contribution is often assessed on the basis of IT value indicator which most of the time is improved when costs lower, quality of service rises, and risk level is acceptable. Furthermore,Read More…
CIO contribution is often assessed on the basis of IT value indicator which most of the time is improved when costs lower, quality of service rises, and risk level is acceptable. Furthermore,Read More…
In my previous post, I addressed the point of view that IT Strategy is not only business alignment, but should rely on a strong vision of IT role in the company. Then,Read More…
Holidays ending up shortly, it is time to rise up a little bit our views and to start discussing about Strategy. When reviewing papers regarding IT Strategy, they often talk about ITRead More…
I use to read Yves Caseau’s blog on which the author scans enterprise organisation issues, tries to identify appropriate optimisation levers, and tests models which helps to validate control efficiency. Involved inRead More…
At a UK IT conference, a senior IBM analyst provided some clues on what IT services will become in the future which were in short : 70% of 2005 CIO budget wasRead More…
The $13,9 billion acquisition of Electronic Data System (EDS) by Hewlett-Packard (HP) and is qualified by Gartner as the biggest computing services company acquisition never done. After the hard experience of CompaqRead More…
Here is, below, some thoughts I exchanged with a consultant in the Paris metro, regarding CIO life. Does it match your knowings ? Once you have stepped in as CIO, you areRead More…
In the 80’s and the 90’s, information systems viewed the world as enterprise centric. All business facts and events the enterprise ought to manage, were entered into the system by employees orRead More…
In the life as in computing, things should remain simple. When costs of ownership exceed acquisition costs, application have to be riengineered. As this statement appears to be clear, CIOs use toRead More…
When defining IT strategy, CIO ought to balance Business Division requirements and Enterprise global strategy. Sometimes it fears strategic swings which may wipe out some of his achievements. He usually keeps atRead More…