I was recently at Gartner Symposium and ITxpo 2013 in Orlando Florida. Another great Symposium, with some excellent speakers, centering on the topic of “digitalization” – fascinating stuff! While I was there, I presented with the great Ken Piddington (@kenpiddington),…
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Richard Branson on Staying Ahead
From travel to entertainment, Virgin Global always aims to be one step ahead of its competition. The CEO of the company, Sir Richard Branson, has learned that innovation is the key to remaining on top. I recently sat down with…
How Large Companies Are Driving Innovation
There is this myth that large enterprises can’t be innovative. Nothing could be further than the truth, and to prove it, I recently gave a videotaped talk where I ran through my top ten examples of the IT-led innovation that is…
How to Succeed with a Mobile-First Strategy
In my last post, I shared my initial impressions of CA World 2013. Today I’d like to drill a little more deeply in to something I saw at the show. Based on the conversations I had with customers at CA World,…
What Happened at CA World: Mobility, DevOps and, Yes, the Mainframe
After attending at least five CA Worlds over the years, the most recent show in Las Vegas hummed with a new kind of vitality. Here are some of my first impressions of what I saw and heard at CA World…
Five Things I Learned About Innovation from Sir Richard Branson
I still cannot believe I had the opportunity to interview Sir Richard Branson one-on-one for our Luminaries video series – in which we interview prominent business, technology and government leaders. If you have been following along, you know I was hugely…
Nick Carr’s ‘IT Doesn’t Matter’ still matters – Network World
I recently spoke with one of my favorite commentators, Network World journalist/editor Ann Bednarz (@annbednarz), on the 10th anniversary of the publication of Nick Carr’s seminal article, “IT Doesn’t Matter’. Carr’s article shook the foundations of IT – not entirely…
CIOs Must Break Down Knowledge Barriers To Spur Innovation – Heller Report
Today I had the honor to have a guest blog published over at The Heller Report’s regular column, “You and Your CIO Career“. This is an excellent blog for CIOs from Martha Heller, President of Heller Search Associates (‘the premier…
Live Interview – The Changing Role of IT and the CIO
Last week at CA World, I had the privilege to be interviewed by Al Perlman, one of the excellent Tech Target moderators who hosted the Broadcast Center – part of the CA World Virtual Conference. Al and I discussed my…
Trying to Be Brilliant in 5 Minutes or Less
Mark Twain famously said “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” I wonder what Mark Twain would say today in the era of tweets and vines. These new platforms challenge us…
Let’s Redefine “IoT” to Mean “The Innovation of Things”
When pundits first began talking about the Internet of Things-also known as “IoT“-the buzz was around applications consumers would use as zillions of devices connected to the Internet. Who doesn’t remember the breathless articles about how our refrigerators would scan…