Over at GigaOm last week, the excellent Barb Darrow (@gigabarb) put out a short and provocative article, “Do you really want your CMO in charge of IT?” In it, Barb cites research from Gartner, as well as interesting insight from…
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Conversations with CIOs: Leaving Technology Behind
The Wall Street Journal recently poked fun at “innovation” as an empty marketing buzzword. They might be on to something, according to the latest research from CA Technologies. Our study of 800 global business and IT leaders found a gap between…
Do you really want your CMO in charge of IT? — Cloud Computing News
Over at GigaOm today, the excellent Barb Darrow (@GigaBarb) put out a very interesting article on the changing role of IT pruchasing, especially in the age of consumerization and cloud. We had a chat on Twitter and email and she…
Public Cloud Saves The Day – Not That You’d Know
The hue and cry when public cloud services fail – which they do with some frequency – is almost deafening. What we rarely hear about is when the public cloud works the way we hope it will. To be fair,…
Stop following and start leading
Business leaders today are increasingly demanding many new IT services to support innovative business opportunities. For example: Sales leaders want their teams to access customer and sales applications anywhere, anytime, and from any device; Finance leaders need tight control over…
Are IT leaders just too busy for innovation? | ZDNet
I was a panelist and co-host of a fantastic broadcast from the HBO studios in New York recently. With smart and experienced colleagues from Gartner, Deloitte, Global Partners, and Comcast, we talked about consumerization, desktop virtualization, innovation, and a lot…
Who’s Who in Cloud, July 13, 2012 | Gathering Clouds
Wow, I have been name-checked in Gathering Clouds in their “Who’s Who in Cloud“. Wow. And check the other names in the list – that is a huge compliment! Barb Darrow: A timely dive into what Amazon’s recent outages really…
CA Technologies Andi Mann speaks to Sky News
I was interviewed by Sky News on cloud and innovation when I was at CeBIT Australia. Check it out!
Survivor: CIO Edition CeBIT Australia
I was thinking about the issues I will present at CeBIT Australia, and thought I would jot some thoughts down. The people at CeBIT thought it was interestign enough to publish in its entirety. How cool is that!? So here…
Survivor: CIO Edition – Will Cloud Computing Kill The CIO Role?
Today I published a new blog post on CA.com in the ‘Perspectives’ section of our community site – you can see the whole blog here. In this post, I discuss whether the CIO role is dead – and if it…
The CIO as a Business Service Conductor
A long time ago, someone asked me on Twitter what is the difference between automation and orchestration. It really got me thinking, and eventually I think I answered by using an actual musical orchestra as a metaphor. In this metaphor,…