The last few decades have witnessed a massive investment of talents and resources in technological advancements, as various companies strive to realize their mission and vision. To this end, most businesses have created IT departments for their corporations, and have continued to fund them, to enhance the installation and operation of various software and technologies. […] Read More
Top Five Tech Trends for 2015
Every business desires to be the leader of their industry in 2015. It will take time to study and make prepare for every opportunity that will present itself for their gain. Technology has proved beyond reasonable doubt that it offers the necessary leverage when used strategically for magnificent performance. In this blog we share the […] Read More
Customer Centric Companies: Guidance for today’s CIOs
For a long time now IT has been serving the internal business customers who then serve the organization’s customers. Well there has been a great shift. Such days are long gone, CIOs are now in the era ‘the Age of the customer’. When compared to the age of information that lasted for almost two decades, […] Read More
IT Leadership Transparency
The current market has taken a shift for the IT leadership. Gone are the days when information about leaders and their practices was a preserve of the top and mighty. The shift in the digital divide has literally changed goals posts. People have information about their employers, companies and products just a click or a […] Read More
Communication of IT Costs
As discussed in our recent post, IT cost transparency is defined as the knowledge of how business usage impacts the costs that are associated to IT. With the transition of IT into the new cloud and virtual systems, it is seen as a critical requirement for acceptance both inside the organization as well as outside. […] Read More
Business Alignment: Requires IT Cost Transparency
While IT cost transparency has been the quest for many CIOs, one is tempted to say that so far, it has been elusive to many. So how do we define the term ‘IT cost transparency’ when used in the context of enterprise IT and its operations? IT cost transparency is defined as the knowledge of […] Read More
IT Relevance for Future Success: Agile and Adaptive
This year, the reading of the budget in Britain brought with it great anxiety as the OBR expects Britain’s economy to be larger than when it collapsed into a recession six years ego. You can be sure the last six years have been challenging-there were the high and mighty companies that commanded great respect in […] Read More
Managing Your IT Budget
“Could you trim down your costs?” this has often been the response to many CIOs when they present their budget for the economic year in their company. The pressure to deliver value in the organizations cannot be any higher than it is with each passing day, but even greater is the pressure to decrease the […] Read More
Success when working with Silos – Follow the IDEA
Management is well aware of the silo effect. This is due to the lack of communication and connections across the many layers and levels of employees and efforts. While organizational structure and processes are critical to success in many companies, we want to avoid the feeling of walls and division of information that might limit […] Read More
Changes are predicted for the CIO
Possible removal of the “C” in the CIO role There have been several researches done in the IT world that have sent serious messages across the IT world. There are warning signs to the effect that the CIO role could be undergoing major changes that may lead to a decline in the power attributed to […] Read More