Every Shade of Grey – The New Reality For CIOs

"Grey" is the reality for the modern CIO

It wasn’t long ago that the CIO mandate was simple to define. The role was clear and operational, customers were internal and IT was transactional.  CIOs managed a necessary cost center; not yet the competitive differentiator it has become.  The role of business IT was “clear,” well defined, and not particularly ambiguous. It was black and white. All of that has changed. The business technology role, and the decisions CIO’s face today are anything but black and white. “The cloud” is...

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Why? The delta between innovation objectives and abilities

The delta between innovation objectives and abilities

A recent survey by the Palladium Group found that 93% of respondents believed that excellence in innovation would be critical to their success in the coming years. However, just 36% of the almost 1400 companies surveyed believed that they were good at innovating. In fact, most felt that they were poor at all forms of innovating – such as product/service and process innovation as well as business model innovation.  Why? (more…)

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