Joel Dobbs.GIF Joel H. Dobbs is the CEO and President of The Compass Talent Management Group LLC (CTMG), a consulting firm that assists organizations with the identification and development of key talent and with designing organizational strategies and structures to maximize their ability to compete in the business worlds […]
‘Ensure that IT is tied to business processes’
– Home > In Person In Person: Technology in Business ‘Ensure that IT is tied to business processes’ Many organizations feel they haven’t spent their rupees on IT wisely enough. They have seen projects with very high investments fail. Gartner analyst John Roberts who is […]
Cloud Computing Seen Cutting 2014 IT Industry Sales
Greater corporate use of cloud computing services will drag down revenue growth for information technology hardware and software suppliers, says Barclays in its 2014 global technology outlook. “We believe the deflationary impact from the cloud ($1 spent on cloud infrastructure actually results in several dollars coming out of other […]
Making the Leap: Creating the Next Generation CIO
by Angelia Herrin | 3:21 PM November 4, 2013 Corporate IT functions and IT leaders are entering a radically new era. Major new developments–including cloud computing, big data/analytics, mobile technology, and a distributed workforce–mean that CIOs and their staffs are being asked to lead and support businesses in very different […]
Running IT Like a Business
Rob Webb, CIO, TBM Council A few weeks ago, I caught up with Robert Webb, former CIO of Hilton Worldwide and Equifax before that. Rob has recently been named CEO of TBM (Technology Business Management Council ), a non-profit organization of CIOs who work together to define a decision-making […]
IT Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Its Users
by Aaron Levie | 12:00 PM November 14, 2013 The history of enterprise technology has been fairly unforgiving to the people intended to use it. For the past half-century, most information technology models propagated two unassailable truths: that enterprise technology was purchased by a select few , and the technology was bought for the company . As for the delight of the […]
Running IT Like a Business
Rob Webb, CIO, TBM Council A few weeks ago, I caught up with Robert Webb, former CIO of Hilton Worldwide and Equifax before that. Rob has recently been named CEO of TBM (Technology Business Management Council ), a non-profit organization of CIOs who work together to define a decision-making […]
Gartner Identifies Four Futures for IT and CIOs
Analysts Examine Key Technology Issues Affecting CIOs at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2012, November 5-8 in Barcelona, Spain The changing shape of IT is causing CIOs to question the role of IT in the organization and the part they will play in it, according to Gartner, Inc. As businesses confront […]
Think Of UC&C Like You Would ERP
This is the second post in a monthly series from Dimension Data and Cisco Channels looking at user adoption and integration of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions. Findings stem from Dimension Data’s 2013 Global UC&C Survey , developed with ICT researcher Ovum and featuring responses from more than […]
Delivering Customer-centric Innovation Through Strategic IT Delivery
“If I had listened to what my customers said they wanted, I would have developed a faster horse.” These words from Henry Ford are perhaps more valid than ever in our current world of the Digital Business. If one is used to IT serving as a means to simply […]