Dead MeatSooner or later, CIOs will become roadkill as a new kind of business technology convergence allows other business executives to do what CIOs did in the past. | Strategic ExecutiveThe CIO role is maturing as leadership and corporate vision are emerging as critical skills CIOs need to have. CIOs are needed to help the firm compete by leveraging technology. |
No Pain, No GainIT governance requires a rigorous, structured approach to ensure IT’s delivery of value. There are no easy answers. | Keep It SimpleIT governance should be simple, involve business, and apply common sense. It shouldn’t require comprehensive frameworks and complex processes. |
This installment of CBR focuses on an often-neglected issue: reverse logistics. To help us better understand the potential of the reverse logistics process, and keeping with our standard process, we recruited both an academic and a practicing professional. Our academic on this issue is a returning contributor, Kathryn Brohman, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (Canada). Our practitioner on this issue is Eileen Brown, an Associate Partner in IBM Global Business Services. Eileen has a wealth of experience in supply chain and operations issues having spent more than two decades in this space.
EA Is Catching Up with RealityEnterprise architecture is finally becoming a mature, mainstream activity in large organizations. This includes controlling complexity and aligning to the business in light of current realities such as outsourcing. |
Outsourcing can be an important asset in the firm's arsenal, but it is no panacea, and it must be proactively managed. This very realization is what motivated our interest in an issue entirely dedicated to the client-vendor relationship in the IT outsourcing context.
