Financial Insights, a research subsidiary of IDC, forecasts that top 10 american financial institutions will cut their IT budgets by 30%. Money is becoming dearer worldwide and investments harder to make. EuropeRead More…
IT Strategy is not enough, what’s about men ?
A recent survey commissioned by the Society for Information Management gave the following concerns for CEO, CIO and enterprise top managers : 1) IT/business alignment 2) Building business skills in IT 3)Read More…
If you transform, align
I already wrote in a previous post how the number of papers discussing IT alignement suprised me. Indeed, for me, priority should be given to deciding, to planning and to setting upRead More…
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…
IT vision and IT Strategy what is the difference ?
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…
IT Strategy and IT alignment
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…
Is organisation the raw material for enterprise architecture ?
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…
Services management and SOA infrastructures may be the best investments for IT
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…
Hewlett-Packard, one step beyond again ?
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…
A dreamed CIO life ?
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…