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Digital transformation: CIO / CMO and the crisis of confidence

Digital transformation: CIO / CMO and the crisis of confidence

By Michael Krigsman on July 14, 2014

A few years ago, Gartner analysts predicted, “by 2017, the CMO will spend more on IT than the CIO.” As you can see from the opening slide on their presentation (registration required) about the topic, Gartner trumpeted this prediction loudly: Although Gartner phrased its prediction to gain attention, the detailed explanatory presentation offers vague and rather inconclusive data to support the core […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged #cxotalk, Avanade, Chief information officer, CMO, gartner

Research: CIOs and the 'digitalization' of business

Research: CIOs and the ‘digitalization’ of business

By Michael Krigsman on January 24, 2014

New research from Gartner and CIO Magazine describe the shift from infrastructure to digital transformation. But, not all organizations are ready to change.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud computing, esteban kolsky, gartner

Mobile Shows That The World is Not for Dummies

Mobile Shows That The World is Not for Dummies

By John Taschek on November 18, 2013

It’s far too easy to hate statistics and use them to make a point simultaneously. Let’s use them to show that the world is not comprised of dummies and idiots. Beginning with the trends published by Mary Meeker about mobile adoption. She shredded some statistical constructs about the PC industry and its projected growth by […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged enterprise software, gartner, Mary Meeker, personal computer, smartphone | 2 Responses

The Machiavellian CIO: Morality versus reality

The Machiavellian CIO: Morality versus reality

By Michael Krigsman on October 29, 2013

The discrepancy, or gap, between doing and achieving is a persistent problem in business. Although every experienced leader knows that functional success is fundamental to sound management, doing a good job doesn’t necessarily lead to career recognition or personal reward. Niccolo Machiavelli, one of the most intriguing political philosophers in Western history, focused relentlessly on […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged ethics, gartner, machiavelli

Who are you, Cloud Broker?

Who are you, Cloud Broker?

By Ofir Nachmani on July 17, 2013

Cloud brokers were recognized and described by Gartner analysts as the `Intermediary services that support fast cloud adoption`. From their customers’ perspectives cloud brokers are the system integrators (SI) or the `cloud enablers` that support fast adoption and maintenance of cloud technologies. For example, the independent software vendor (ISV) can benefit greatly from a cloud […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged accenture, amazon, amazon cloud, Amazon Web Services, business, cloud, Cloud Broker, Cloud brokerage, cloud computing, Cloud Ecosystem, gartner, IT MSP, managed services, reuven cohen, system integrator | 1 Response

CxO Talk guest Hinchcliffe proclaims, 'IT is dead'

CxO Talk guest Hinchcliffe proclaims, ‘IT is dead’

By Michael Krigsman on May 13, 2013

During the latest episode of CxO Talk, my weekly video talk show with co-host Vala Afshar, social business expert Dion Hinchcliffe made provocative assertions about IT. Dion is chief strategy officer of consulting firm, Dachis Group, an experienced enterprise architect, book author, and fellow ZDNet columnist so we should examine his comments carefully. In our discussion, Dion […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged #cxotalk, dachis group, dion hinchcliffe, gartner | 1 Response

Gartner: CIOs and CMOs must 'turn sparks into flame'

Gartner: CIOs and CMOs must ‘turn sparks into flame’

By Michael Krigsman on April 10, 2013

In the most recent episode of CxO Talk, Vala Afshar and I asked Gartner group vice president, Mark P. McDonald, to advise CIOs who face declining IT budgets despite higher overall technology spend in their organization. Mark’s comments shed light on reformulating IT strategy to reflect changing corporate needs and the evolving relationship between the CIO and […]

Posted in Featured Posts | Tagged #cxotalk, gartner, Social Enterprise

Blueprint to Re-Cycle the much Hyped MagiK Kvadrant

Blueprint to Re-Cycle the much Hyped MagiK Kvadrant

By Zoli Erdos on March 25, 2013

Fellow Enterprise Irregular and HfS Research Founder Phil Fersht introduced their new Blueprint with an appropriate title: Step aside Magic Quadrant, hello Blueprint. I think such a milestone warrants a historical overview of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, Hype Cycle, Magic Cycle, Magic Hype, Hyped Magik… or any other variation you prefer.  And since it’s just a few […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Just for fun | Tagged Blueprint, gartner, Gartner MQ, HfS Research, Horses for Sources, humor, hype cycle, magic quadrant, research

Moving PaaS Beyond the Sound Bites in 2013

Moving PaaS Beyond the Sound Bites in 2013

By Guest Authors on January 2, 2013

Most of the discussion around PaaS these days tends to focus on the rapid application deployment capabilities. That’s the easiest thing to demo in a 3-minute video so it tends to get the headlines. I believe that in 2013 we will move on from this eye candy and dig into some of the higher value […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged application inventory, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, enterprise software, gartner, holy grail, paas, platform services, private PaaS | 7 Responses

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On Organizations’ Real Requirements Around BigData

By Ben Kepes on December 10, 2012

Every time another vendor takes the “big data” moniker and applies it to some legacy system a cat somewhere on the internet dies. Like “cloud” a couple of years ago, big data has become the term de jour – and vendors seem to think that simply using it will give them some magic power to […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, cloud computing, data mining, Data Warehousing, databases, gartner, Vocus | 2 Responses

Enterprise Software Needs Flow And Not Gamification

Enterprise Software Needs Flow And Not Gamification

By Chirag Mehta on December 1, 2012

I don’t believe in gamifying enterprise applications. As I have argued before, the primary drivers behind revenue and valuation of consumer software companies are number of users, traffic (unique views), and engagement (average time spent + conversion)…

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged Brian Burke, enterprise applications, enterprise software, Game design, Gamification, gartner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

BMC Launches MyIT – Bridging the IT/Business Divide

BMC Launches MyIT – Bridging the IT/Business Divide

By Ben Kepes on November 1, 2012

Cross posted from the BMC blog. I spend most of my time talking to technology vendors, IT folks and business people all in an effort to drive organizational benefits through the use of technology. Over years of doing this, I’ve noticed a stark divide that exists within an organization between

Posted in Application Software | Tagged bmc, employment, Forrester Research, gartner, Information Technology, ipad, MyIT

Gartner’s Latest IaaS Magic Quadrant Released–Meh With a Bit of Interesting

Gartner’s Latest IaaS Magic Quadrant Released–Meh With a Bit of Interesting

By Ben Kepes on October 22, 2012

I’m not usually big on Gartner’s crystal-ball-gazing Magic Quadrant methodology – some people claim it’s pay-for-play writ large. I don’t know about that, it just seems to be a somewhat hokey, albeit scientifically-based, prediction of what might occur or, more often, hat already is. Anyway – with that said, the latest IaaS MQ is pretty […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Bob Gill, cloud computing, dell, fujitsu, gartner, magic quadrant, OpSource, platform as a service, simon wardley | 1 Response

It Takes at Least 7 Years in SaaS:  Can You Do The Time?

It Takes at Least 7 Years in SaaS: Can You Do The Time?

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 5, 2012

I was recently at a dinner with a founder of a pretty successful web company, and he asked how long I had worked on EchoSign, and he nodded his head, and he said “Yeah same for me.  It takes about 7 years”. People know SaaS takes longer than consumer web to scale.  But it’s not […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship | Tagged cloud computing, echosign, gartner, ipo, revenue, software as a service | 1 Response

On Open Source Cloud Adoption

On Open Source Cloud Adoption

By Ben Kepes on October 3, 2012

Last week Lydia Leong from Gartner published an analyst report with some opinions on Open Stack. I’ve been critical in the past about traditional analyst firms and I’ve also gone on record as being positive about open source (and, for full disclosure, the CloudU program I run is sponsored by OpenStack member Rackspace) but notwithstanding […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged gartner, Krishnan Subramanian, openstack, rackspace, Redmonk | 3 Responses

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