Thornton May: Renaissance lessons for modern CIOs
The Renaissance has relevance to IT, and not just because IT is constantly being reborn.
Stories by Thornton A. May
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Thornton May: The path to big data mastery
While the path-to-mastery pattern is conceptually simple, successfully executing it requires courage, perseverance and patience.
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Thornton May: Caught between mobility's rock and hard place
The rock: Users want to use their smartphones for work. The hard place: Security is deficient. All CIOs are caught between the two.
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Thornton May: The future will need CIOs
For the CIO job, things are going to get bigger, better and different on a massive scale.
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The one thing we know about the future is that it's coming
In the history of computing, enterprise IT has rarely ever been prepared for the future. But we can't go on that way.
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Thornton May: Stalking the elusive data scientist
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)
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Looking ahead: A year for stories and storytellers
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.
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Thornton May: Futuring should be job No. 1 for IT
Futuring is not what you do when you are finished with the imagined real work of operations.
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IT Needs to Aspire and Really Make a Difference
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.
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The CIO Enters the Era of Disruption
Welcome to the age of disruption.
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What You Need to Know About ECM
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).
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The look of post-cloud IT
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.
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IT must address its identity crisis
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.)
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Most CIOs 'dinosaurs,' heading for career Ice Age
Most CIOs are dinosaurs: out of place in the world that is taking shape, and headed for mass extinction.
