Bruce Stewart is a 39 year veteran of IT management and above. He is an executive advisor serving CIOs and senior executives in areas of governance, strategy, complex architectural transitions, portfolio yield and value generation.
If you look back a decade ago, when META Group Executive Directions analysts were mining the implications of their credibility-dependency matrices and Vivaldi Advisory founder Bruce Rogow was talking about long marches once the cleanup was done, it was clear … Continue reading
It’s the outcome Microsoft feared, and it’s coming to pass. Enterprise buyers are staying away from Windows 8. So much so, in fact, that the product will be “relaunched” in an attempt to break down the opposition. Windows 8 — … Continue reading
The technology game goes through waves. Some periods are filled with innovations; others, it seems fairly quiet. Right now it’s one of the quiet periods. The core models for getting work done are established. Public cloud, private cloud, server farm. … Continue reading
There are Apple fanbois. And there are Android fanbois, mostly around the Samsung Galaxy. Don’t get me wrong, both the iPhone and the Galaxy are good devices. But they’re also both maxed out. Several years ago I conducted research into … Continue reading
This could be a very good year for the buyers of technology products and services. It’s not necessarily going to be as good a one for the sellers. All the economic warning lights are lit, from slowdowns in job creation … Continue reading
Two companies exemplify one of the challenges for IT professionals trying to sort out information about market potential. In both cases, a great deal of the information that’s out there right now is actually driven by the stock market — … Continue reading
If you did a public opinion poll in enterprises on the subject of “bring your own device”, you’d find two very different results. Users, by and large, are in favour. IT professionals, by and large, are not. (Of course, when … Continue reading
Outsourcing of people, offshoring of functions. None of these is new. No one much bothered to make a big fuss about any of them, though. The affected employees here in Canada tarted up their résumés and eventually found something else. … Continue reading
Since 2009, when Chief Executive Officers are surveyed about what they want from their IT groups, the same answer has topped the list. Generate new value. Translated from the language of the executive suite, what this means is that they’re … Continue reading
In an ideal IT world, nothing would ever apparently fail. No matter what’s happening, everything would always be working. Changes would just flow into place (and could be backed out just as easily). Sounds impossible. If you use Amazon, Facebook, … Continue reading
I’ve been doing a number of prospecting site visits recently, brought in because the organizations involved are concerned about the economy. In each case, the CFO and/or COO are concerned that IT be optimized. The CIO is generally certain that … Continue reading
Wednesday night Oracle Corporation (ORCL) released its results for the previous quarter, a miss against expectations. The company blamed this on “cloud-based competition”. Well, there is cloud-based competition, but that’s not the whole picture. For IT managers, it’s the whole … Continue reading
Back in the 1990s, when the dot-com boom was in full swing, Geoffrey A. Moore published a series of books — Crossing the Chasm, Into the Tornado and The Gorilla Game — that swept the high tech community and got … Continue reading
Monday, Shane Schick posted his rebuttal to Gartner’s attempt to push the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) meme into the IT landscape, “The CIO will outlast all this CDO stupidity”. I couldn’t agree more. Moreover, let me put it as bluntly … Continue reading
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