Thornton May: Renaissance lessons for modern CIOs
The Renaissance has relevance to IT, and not just because IT is constantly being reborn.
The Renaissance has relevance to IT, and not just because IT is constantly being reborn.
While the path-to-mastery pattern is conceptually simple, successfully executing it requires courage, perseverance and patience.
The rock: Users want to use their smartphones for work. The hard place: Security is deficient. All CIOs are caught between the two.
For the CIO job, things are going to get bigger, better and different on a massive scale.
In the history of computing, enterprise IT has rarely ever been prepared for the future. But we can't go on that way.
Since it is virtually impossible to find all needed analytical skills resident in the same human being, it might be wise to adopt an 'ensemble' approach to your organization's deficit in those skills. Insider (registration required)
Here's my No. 1 forecast for 2013: We will start telling better stories. In the new year, the IT career guillotine will sever the necks of those less facile in the narrative arts.
Futuring is not what you do when you are finished with the imagined real work of operations.
Victor Hugo, the great writer of 19th-century France, said, "You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come." The same can be said of technologies.
Welcome to the age of disruption.
We are awash in information. Our organizations house stupendous amounts of it , and even more of it is all around us, freely available to those who can find it. That's why IT leadership has been shifting its focus from deploying technology to extracting value from information. And it's why organizations intent on driving change and maximizing value are increasingly talking about enterprise content management (ECM).
I recently surveyed the vendor, analyst and trade-show landscape seeking to get a snapshot of current thinking about cloud computing . I came away with two visceral conclusions. The first is that vendor marketing on this topic is terrible. One would be hard-pressed to find more gibberish per pixel than the typical vendor or analyst PowerPoint presentation on cloud computing. The second conclusion is that no one really knows anything about what will happen to IT after the cloud becomes a mainstream reality.
A celebrity caught breaking traffic or substance-abuse laws is apt to haughtily ask the arresting officer, “Do you have any idea who I am?” It’s hard to imagine any IT professional doing the same. (A very good thing, too, since I doubt that query has ever done an offender an ounce of good.)
Most CIOs are dinosaurs: out of place in the world that is taking shape, and headed for mass extinction.
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