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Stuart Macgregor

Road Map to Relevance - 0 views

  • The alternative is to build a company-wide rationale for information technology, bringing the internal supply (IT function) and demand (business unit) sides together to focus investment on the few distinctive capabilities that set the company apart. Most top executives understand this reality. They recognize the strategic value of visionary IT leadership, especially in helping their companies understand which strategies are most viable. Some companies have been able to achieve that kind of IT leadership. But many do not know, in practice, how to get there from where they are today.
  • Corporate capabilities and information technology are intertwined in every company, but the relationship between them is often misunderstood. A capability is the ability to reliably and consistently deliver a specified outcome relevant to your business. This capability is ensured through a combination of processes, tools, knowledge, skills, and organization that are all focused on meeting the desired result.
  • If you are a CEO, a CFO, or a business leader, you should insist that the IT function develop a complementary road map for its investments. Your business and IT leaders should develop this road map collaboratively. Conversely, if you are a chief information officer seeking to adopt this sort of road map, you may find yourself alone at first. You will need to influence the culture and governance systems of the larger company. You might, for example, seek to include the IT road map process in annual strategic planning exercises, set up joint business–IT governance councils, or establish new metrics for the performance and relevance of IT projects. You will need to insist on broad business participation in high-level IT decisions. Finally, you might seek IT oversight policies such as those imposed at Royal Dutch Shell PLC, where 80 percent of IT spending was dedicated to the 200 most strategically important applications. Now is the time to raise the bar on IT investment planning, to make sure investment capital is used to position the business for success. As a CIO or IT leader, you must focus on enabling the corporate strategy, not fighting about technology standards or managing budgets. As a CEO, a CFO, or a business leader, you must seek to understand how technology can enable your capabilities, instead of simply trying to reduce your unit service cost. The integral role of IT gives you a unique vantage point from which to help the business identify the right capabilities and bring them together across the value chain. With a well-designed road-mapping process, you can give IT the role that it deserves.
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    The alternative is to build a company-wide rationale for information technology, bringing the internal supply (IT function) and demand (business unit) sides together to focus investment on the few distinctive capabilities that set the company apart. Most top executives understand this reality. They recognize the strategic value of visionary IT leadership, especially in helping their companies understand which strategies are most viable. Some companies have been able to achieve that kind of IT leadership. But many do not know, in practice, how to get there from where they are today
Stuart Macgregor

Experts: Enterprise architecture key to IT security - 0 views

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    Enterprise architecture must be a key part of the strategy used to protect government computers and networks from cyberattacks
Stuart Macgregor

Gartner Says Hybrid Thinking for Enterprise Architecture Can Help Organisatio... - 0 views

  • Most enterprise architecture (EA) initiatives remain trapped in the IT department, and a new approach – hybrid thinking – is required to break EA out and into the wider organisation, according to Gartner, Inc. Adopting hybrid thinking is an excellent way to meld design thinking, IT thinking and business thinking, and achieve transformative, innovative and strategic changes.
Stuart Macgregor

A Corporate Climate of Mutual Help - 1 views

  • Better teamwork requires perpetual mutual helping, within and across hierarchical boundaries
  • But what I’m talking about is something much more profound and essential: knowing how to work with one another as equal partners in an operational setting.
  • Because they think that to change culture, you simply introduce a new culture and tell people to follow it. That will never work. Instead, you have to conduct a business analysis around whatever is triggering your perceived need to change the culture. You solve that business problem by introducing new behaviors.
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  • The types of teams that we need in organizations today are like cardiac surgical units. The surgeon, the anesthesiologist, the perfusionist, and the nurse are in immediate, here-and-now interdependence.
  • In that kind of team, subordinates have to help superiors regularly; everyone has to act as if they all have a stake in the outcome
  • “Is this just an individual resisting, or are group norms at play, based in a particular subculture?”
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    Edgar Schein, MIT's sage of organizational culture, explains why the quest for accountability should start with interdependence.
Pathyan Parker

Appropriate Strategy To Grab Bad Credit Installment Loans Easily And Swiftly Via Online... - 0 views

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    You can acquire just follow straightforward steps to obtain the online lending service that is accurate for your circumstances in absolute manner during emergency time. It is must that you read and appreciate the arrangement before signing in order to make sure you can truthfully afford it and it doesn't enclose any hidden terms for these financial sources.
Alex Parker

Orange goes smart, deploys LoRa IoT network - 1 views

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    Company plans to generate €600 million in revenue by 2018 from doing IoT business.
Alex Parker

What came first: the data or the tech? - 1 views

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    The evolution of data, in-memory technology, and the future it holds.
Alex Parker

BBC branded national champion for digital tech - 1 views

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    News: UK Department for Culture, Media & Sport to carry out consultation for reviewing the network's credibility as a public broadcaster.
Alex Parker

Windows 10 ecosystem expands with Lumia & Surface devices - 1 views

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    News: Lumia devices, Surface tablet and new wearable steal the show.
Stuart Macgregor

Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 - PC World - 0 views

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    Gartner senior analyst and mobile guru, Nick Jones, presented the strategic technologies, and defined them as the ones which will impact CIOs within the mainstream enterprise between the next 12 to 36 months. "Strategic technologies will drive significan
Stuart Macgregor

Creating competitive advantage with IT architecture - McKinsey Quarterly - Business Tec... - 0 views

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    The transformation required Shanghai Mobile to dismantle the existing architecture and to replace it with a new IT blueprint based on service-oriented architecture (SOA), which created a unified business-service layer for different front-end channel syste
Stuart Macgregor

Rethinking knowledge work: A strategic approach - McKinsey Quarterly - Organization - S... - 0 views

  • It’s time for companies to develop a strategy for knowledge work—one that not only provides a clearer view of the types of information that workers need to do their jobs but also recognizes that the application of technology across the organization must vary considerably, according to the tasks different knowledge workers perform.
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    We live in a world where knowledge-based work is expanding rapidly. So is the application of technology to almost every business process and job. But to date, high-end knowledge workers have largely remained free to use only the technology they personally find useful. It's time to think about how to make them more productive by imposing a bit more structure. This combination of technology and structure, along with a bit of managerial discretion in applying them to knowledge work, may well produce a revolution in the jobs that cost and matter the most to contemporary organizations.
Stuart Macgregor

An interview with Lenovo's CIO: The IT factor - McKinsey Quarterly - Business Technolog... - 0 views

  • need to have a top-down view of how the business actually runs in order to navigate all the complexities and to make fact-based decisions on trade-offs affecting businesses and IT implementation.
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    The IT factor in a global business transformation: An interview with Lenovo's CIO
Alex Parker

Top 5 reverse image search engines - 1 views

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    Reverse image searching is similar to regular web searching, but instead of key words, phrases, or questions, you provide the search engine with an example of an image, and it will search for similar images to the one that you have provided.
Alex Parker

Clark International Airport - 1 views

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    Previously known as Diosdado Macapagal International Airport. It is the fastest growing airport in the Philippines with a recorded 71% growth in passenger traffic from 2011 to 2012.
Alex Parker

Mildura Solar Power Station - Power Technology - 1 views

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    Mildura Solar Power Station is a concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) project being built in Carwrap, south of Mildura in the state of Victoria, Australia. The project will use high performance solar cells used to power satellites. The plant was proposed to have an installed capacity of 100MW initially to reduce the annual greenhouse gas emissions by 396,000t.
Alex Parker

Star-spangled super power- the ten biggest power stations in the US - 1 views

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    Six of the ten biggest power stations in the US are fossil-fuelled, while the other four, including the two biggest Grand Coulee and Palo Verde, are hydro -and nuclear-powered. Power-technology.com profiles the ten biggest power stations in the US based on installed capacity.
Alex Parker

July's top stories: EU-funded software, AIRCOM Server Flight Tracker in India - 1 views

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    European researchers developed a new software and sensor system to lower carbon emissions and energy costs in airports, while SITA planned to deploy its AIRCOM Server Flight Tracker in India for efficient aircraft tracking.
Alex Parker

Too high a price? The risks and rewards of airport privatisation - 2 views

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    Privatising airport operations can be a boon for wider economies - but is privatisation really to the benefit of all aviation stakeholders?
Alex Parker

Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH/OMAA) - Airport Technology - 1 views

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    Abu Dhabi International Airport, which is located in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE, completed expansion projects in 2002. These involved a new 4,100m runway and taxiway, a new satellite terminal, a rapid transit shuttle and a series of 18 new...
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