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·IT Strategy Has a New Location--and RSS Feed
(CIO)After several months of development, CIO has launched its updated blog site, at blogs.cio.com. There youll find the new home of this blog, along with old favorites such as Meridith Levinsons Movers and Shakers, Lorraine Cosgrove Wares The Numbers Never Lie, Christopher Lindquists Tech LinkLetter and Venture Watch by venture capitalist Michael Jung. Youll also discover our newest blogs, including Elana Va ...
·Can Vendors Control Open Source?
(CIO)In the flurry of stories about Oracles purchase of Sleepycat last week, I was struck by a statement by MySQLsCEO Marten Mickos in an interview with Forbes: Forbes: Do open source firms that sell to large, proprietary software companies risk being dubbed sellouts by the community thats helped them develop their software? Mickos: Of course if someone sells out, everyone calls them a sellout. But whats importa ...
·Your Supply Chain and Your Stock Price
(CIO)One of the things that gets overlooked when the pundits talk about ITs growing importance in business strategy is the scrutiny that will come with it. Today, IT is opaque in most companies and is mostly ignored by Wall Street analysts. (Ask Wall Street analysts a series of tough questions about IT and theyll punt more often than the Houston Texans.) For companies that make or sell physical products I cant thi ...
·Does the Internet Make Software Better?
(CIO)The enterprise software market is becoming a battle of "platforms," big, interwoven networks of applications that form the basis of CIOs architectures and attract smaller companies to build secondary applications that work with the big platforms. The leaders in the platform races are, of course, Microsoft (operating systems and desktop software), SAP (and its big suite of enterprise applications) and Oracle (da ...
·Why You Arent Average
(CIO)All the discussion weve had lately about averages got me thinking about the ways in which your company is not average. Here are some suggestions, courtesy of Forrester, Gartner and Aberdeen Group: 1. Technologys role in products and services--High concentration of IT in products (insurance and financial products, for example) means higher spending 2. Business volatility--If you are absorbing an acquisition, yo ...
·The Really, Really Hard Software Architecture Strategy
(CIO)"Im not saying its impossible, but itll be really, really hard to be successful." Thats how a Forrester Research analyst described the task Oracle faces in integrating all its recent enterprise software acquisitions in this BusinessWeek story. It got me thinking about how the traditional vendor strategy for enterprise applications--big, integrated suites as a bulwark to assert dominance over customers softw ...
·The Cult of Leadership
(CIO)Two interviews that the folks at Wharton did last year offer a good yin and yang on leadership science. One, an interview with leadership author and consultant Marcus Buckingham, veers into the ditch of celebrity cult worship--an unfortunate channeling of our cultures fascination with Hollywood celebrity into the business realm. First, theres the usual "you got it or you dont" distinction between managers (lo ...
·Why Defend This Metric?
(CIO)There were many comments on the "Damaging Metric" posting a few weeks ago. Thanks. Many people defended the idea of measuring IT spending against total revenue by saying it is a starting point. I realize that old habits die hard, but saying it is a good starting point is like saying a transmission is a good starting point to building a car--by yourself, in your backyard. So much knowledge is required beyond that ...
·Enterprise Architecture vs. SOA: Pick the Winner
(CIO)What do you do when the organizing strategy for IT youve been selling for years--enterprise architecture--is threatened by a new order--SOA? Do you invoke revisionist history and erase all references to enterprise architecture? Or do you risk eye-rolling the business by telling them you have to do both at once now? The research I did for a recent story on enterprise architecture told me that EA is not very popu ...
·A Damaging Metric
(CIO)One of the most damaging metrics in IT today is spending as a percent of revenue. Its the only relatively easily obtainable benchmark on spending, yet it is hopelessly vague and compounds everything thats wrong with the word average. According to a survey by consulting company CSC done in conjunction with Financial Executives International, a professional association of CFOs, companies that spend according to ...
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