A New Playbook for Enterprise IT: A Get Out of Jail Free Card
You cannot successfully transform your company into a true digital enterprise if you keep your IT Group under house arrest. The pace and magnitude of digital transformation disruption mandates that your company must figure out how to deploy technology-enabled innovation as a critical driver of new revenues and profits. This doesn’t mean you need to […]
Unlocking trapped value to fund critical new IT investments
One of the resounding truths of the past few years is that more and more companies are tightening their IT purse strings and mandating that CIOs and their teams better optimize the costs and returns on the company’s technology spend. Some of this belt tightening is understandable as 80% of most corporate IT budgets are […]
Why a Good IT Governance Model Is Essential to a Good Digital Transformation Process
I have previously stated that the ability of CEO’s, C-suites and Boards to transform their companies from analog to digital business models will be the defining leadership challenge of the next 10 years. When tackling a challenge of this breadth and scope, it is often difficult to gain the necessary alignment, support and commitment to […]
Technology-Enabled Innovation is the New Source of Competitive Advantage
Everywhere you look technology-enabled innovation is the driving source of new competitive advantage for companies of all sizes across all industries: From Uber redefining the taxi user experience by utilizing the GPS function on your smart phone to find you rather than you finding a cab and then billing you afterward so you don’t need […]
The Third Era of Enterprise IT: Why companies need to develop a new resource allocation strategy and game plan
The last 10 years have seen the emergence of consumer IT and its impact on how companies need to fundamentally change the way they engage with their employees, customers, supply chain partners and other key stakeholders. Driven by the oft-used acronym SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics & Cloud), these new models and tools are ushering in […]
The Role of IT in Big Data & Analytics: Myths, Realities & Practicalities
By: Peter D. Moore President Wild Oak Enterprises, LLC There has long been a challenging relationship between IT and its key internal line of business partners and other key stakeholders. Everywhere you look today someone is trying to undermine the CIO and the role and value of corporate IT: Shadow IT, technology purchases that bypass […]
Building a New Digital Business Model is Not a Functional Expertise Problem It’s a Collaboration Problem
Everywhere you look today someone is trying to harpoon the CIO and the role and value of corporate IT: A recent Forrester study showed that by 2015 for the first time in history IT departments will lead only a minority of IT projects. Pundits galore are pontificating on the need to replace the CIO with […]
The Role and Value of an Outside Facilitator in Helping Well-Established Companies Successfully Deal with Disruptive Innovations
As I have discussed in earlier blogs, the Evolution of Enterprise IT from Systems of Record to Systems of Engagement is the kind of transformative shift (disruptive innovation) that has already started to rearrange the competitive hierarchy across multiple industries from advertising to financial services to health care to retail. In fact, from my vantage […]
Leadership Development is an Oxymoron
Short term performance vs. long term power As I’ve written in earlier blogs, the single biggest challenge facing CEOs and other C-Suite leaders in well-established companies is how to find the right balance between funding the businesses they have versus making significant enough investments in next generation businesses so they can deliver material revenues and […]
Crossing the Chasm in the Belly of a Whale: How Well-established Companies Can Adopt New Rituals to Successfully Launch New Businesses
A Little History: In 1991, my brother Geoffrey wrote his first book called Crossing the Chasm which provided a framework along with models and tools to help technology startups successfully launch and scale new products and services into the high tech market. Twenty two years later, it is still the bible for most startups in […]
