My latest Forrester CIO client visits tell me economic uncertainty is actually helping IT leaders accelerate plans for the future. Sounds counterintuitive, right? Perhaps it’s just because I started in Europe, where the hourly ups and downs of sovereign debt…
The corporate bridge too far, the one needed between CIOs and chief marketing officers, is now seen as attainable and, in fact, inevitable. Social media, which is remaking firms of all sizes in fundamental ways, is forcing 360-degree roles on…
I work with a lot of CIOs and heads of strategy in Australia and the Asia Pacific area – particularly concerning the development and updating of their IT strategies. As a part of our strategy document review service, I have…
There is plenty of talk about cloud computing, wholesale colocation, and other ways to solve your data center problems. If you listen, you’ll soon be convinced that you should 1) get rid of all your hardware and put your server…
Takeaway: Scott Lowe says CIOs need to be business leaders first and technologists second, but there needs to be a good balance. CIOs need to be business leaders. That is an incontrovertible fact. Over the years, however, much has been…
