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jdodge just created content IT spending growth cooling off: IDC

Here's IDC's press release....

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 18:13

jdodge just created content 10 reasons why you have to quit your job this year

Well, I, for one, do not plan on quitting my job. After all, a community manager's job is both interesting and thoroughly relevant in the online world. For the moment, anyway...

Writer James Altucher, a managing partner of a hedge fund and book author, makes some great observations. Here's three: the middle class is dead; money does not buy happiness (and he's in hedge funds!!??); and corporations don't like you. His post is a good read.

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 17:56

jdodge just created content A snapshot of what is keeping CIOs awake at night...

There are no surprises in this list from this ZDNet post, which with its strategic and tactical lists seems comprehensive. Is anything missing? What keeps you up at night?

Author Steve Ranger notes that there's "not much technology" on the lists. Indeed, the work of a CIO is changing.

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Tue, 05/14/2013 - 15:43

jdodge just created content What Nate Silver knows about Big Data

Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge expounds on political oracle Nate Silver's contention that too much [big] data is not always such a great thing. Dodge also explains why he thinks big data and marketing are soul mates.

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 15:24

jdodge just commented on Of course, much depends on in Applications

Of course, much depends on the apps that are being developed for it. There's quite a bit of interest from that community. I give it a cautious yes. Here's my most recent post on the subject.

http://www.enterprisecioforum.com/en/blogs/jdodge/should-cios-pay-attention-google-glass

Also, here's some good perspective on Glass from E.G. Nadhan:

http://www.enterprisecioforum.com/en/blogs/enadhan/byod-gets-new-definition-%E2%80%94-be-your-own-d

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 13:58

jdodge just created content Is Google Glass a game changer?

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 13:36

An IT Service Strategy for the cloud leveraged by ITIL V3

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 19:34

Cloud Computing is here. Powered by mature and robust virtualization technologies, both public and private cloud initiatives are well underway or implemented at best of breed enterprises and solution providers. For enterprises just getting started, it might be that your users are wondering why they can get cloud services in minutes or hours while getting similar services “in house” is dreadfully slow, painful, and often more expensive.

Do you leverage your Shared Service Center effectively?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 18:05

The reson that you build a shared service center is often to ensure competency but also to optimise cost. In order to validate if the implementation meets expectations you would need to set a clear BC before you start off.

For the IT Department to become a full fledged business partner with the means (and the ends) to deliver to the business strategy together with the professsions (business lines) we need to instore Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with Cost, Consumption and Chargeback as point of departure (to ensure the necessary means and ends).

How do you leverage your mobile devices?

Wed, 04/06/2011 - 10:40

The workforce is moving to mobile devices that provide an ideal interface to “keep the business running” as the work force is on the road.

The IT Department as a full-fledged business partner?

Wed, 04/06/2011 - 10:34

For the IT Department to become a full fledged business partner with the means (and the ends) to deliver to the business strategy together with the professsions (business lines) we need to instore Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with Cost, Consumption and Chargeback as point of departure (to ensure the necessary means and ends).

We also need to define a clear “IT Business Model” (“This is how we deliver IT services to the business”) and “Business (IT) Value proposition” (“This is how we suppo

How much of a black hole (that is how broken) is your outsourcing / cloudsourcing operation?

Fri, 04/01/2011 - 11:44

Article by: Martin Palmgren, CIO/ IT Strategy and Transformation Executive @ .communicate martin.palmgren@pscommunicate.com http://fr.linkedin.com/in/martinpalmgren

Aligned with business objectives, black box or pandoras box.

Fri, 04/01/2011 - 09:46

Aligned with business objectives, black box or pandoras box. How is your IT department preceived by your stakeholders?

Article by: Martin Palmgren, CIO/ IT Strategy and Transformation Executive @ .communicate martin.palmgren@pscommunicate.com http://fr.linkedin.com/in/martinpalmgren