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Monthly Archives: April 2011
‘Who’ and ‘what’ the extended CIO role must support
As it becomes ever clearer that the subject of innovation of business models is actually all about a disruption of the technology model as it is currently defined, the role of the CIO becomes an increasingly hot topic. (My colleague Christine Hodgson wrote a neat summary of the challenges recently in CIO Online). Ever since Web 2.0 started to make its presence felt, and application users have become ‘browsers’, this topic has been around in …
Innovation gives way to disruption as scale of change starts to show
Disruption is beginning to beat innovation as the most used word to describe what is happening. My belief is that the scale of the shift in the way we do, or will, or are, doing things is starting to become all too apparent. The term ‘innovation’ sounded much cosier, just something really interesting we found in a corner of our market or business, something that felt much more like an evolution in truth and didn’t …
Top 10 Tips to improve your Applications Landscape
In case you missed: we recently released the 2011 edition of the Application Landscape Report. You may find it quite interesting, because it clearly demonstrates that most organizations – global or local, medium or large – have application landscapes that are in desperate need of rationalization. In order to be able to work on a new generation of applications that deliver more value to the business (think mobile, cloud, social, intelligence, process) we need to …
Enterprise architecture plus business model generation
It’s usually bad form to question some aspect of enterprise architecture which over the last 15 years has rightly come to be seen as essential. Enterprise architects are suspicious of attempts to undermine a role that has taken some time to really be understood and accepted as a core requirement for enterprise IT. However given that enterprise IT is normally based on a client server, close coupled and state full systems environment then maybe we …
App Stores (if Apple permits the term) or Open Source?
It’s been an interesting week for headlines. First and the most controversial is George Cooney, the head of Forrester Research, publicly stating that Apple revenues will overtake IBM and HP as it moves into being a $200 billion company. (IBM is at $99 billion and HP at $126 billion currently). What George didn’t comment on was the Apple business model that drives not only these revenues but a very high profitability model, but then that’s …
