05Dec/08

Service industry productivity is the current challenge for Europe

05/12/2008IT technology, Web2.0innovation, productivityadmin

The term “post-industrial society” was first coined by Daniel Bell in 1973. He predicted things like the global diffusion of capital, the imbalance of international trade, and the decline of the manufacturingRead More…

30Oct/08

Should companies appoint a CTO ?

30/10/2008Enterprise architecture, Enterprise IT, IT Strategy, IT technologyCTO, technology strategyadmin

Strictly speaking CIO extent is around company information asset management, even if he encompasses often operations management as well. Larger companies which would like to lead processes on its own, may feelRead More…

12Oct/08

Productivity in IT Divisions

12/10/2008Enterprise architecture, Enterprise IT, IT Strategy, Web2.0knowledge worker, tacit workeradmin

I thought some years ago that Enterprise information system growth was more or less linear, according to a size factor. But getting experience, I soon discovered that inserting a new application inRead More…

25Sep/08

Harsh times are coming for IT divisions. What to do ?

25/09/2008Enterprise IT, IT Strategy, IT technologyhuman capital, human resource, IT managementadmin

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…

17Sep/08

IT Strategy is not enough, what’s about men ?

17/09/2008Enterprise architecture, Enterprise IT, IT Strategy, IT technologyhuman capital managementmots

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…

31Aug/08

A change agent CIO, his real strategic stake.

31/08/2008Enterprise IT, IT Strategy, IT technologyArchitecture d'entreprisemots

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…

18Aug/08

IT Strategy and IT alignment

18/08/2008Enterprise architecture, Enterprise IT, IT technologyAlignment, Strategyadmin

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…

02Jun/08

Services management and SOA infrastructures may be the best investments for IT

02/06/2008Enterprise architecture, Enterprise IT, IT technology, SOA, Web2.0composite applications, datacenters, IT trendsadmin

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…

18May/08

Hewlett-Packard, one step beyond again ?

18/05/2008Enterprise architecture, Enterprise IT, IT technologyBusiness, cloud computing, EDS, HPadmin

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…

07May/08

A dreamed CIO life ?

07/05/2008Enterprise IT, IT technologyCIO, CIO life, leadershipadmin

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…