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At its recent Symposium/ITxpo 2012 in Orlando, Gartner predicted that by 2015, about a quarter of all organizations will have created a new seat at the senior executive table – the Chief Digital Officer. Gartner’s prediction is based on the major transformation underway as companies are digitizing both their sources of revenue as well as…
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At the end of August, IBM announced the latest member of its mainframe family, the zEnterprise EC12. As pointed out in the announcement, the new system is a result of more than $1B in R&D investments over the past four years, resulting in major improvements in performance, security, availability and other key enterprise features. But…
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I recently read an intriguing article in the NY Times: In the Ordinary, Silicon Valley is Finding the Next Big Thing, by columnist and Ohio State professor Steven Davidoff. The article focused on the recently announced deal between Starbucks and Square, the San Francisco-based mobile payments startup. Under the deal, customers will be able to…
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A few weeks ago I had an interesting discussion with Bob Kahn. Along with Vint Cerf, Bob is recognized as one the key fathers of the Internet, for which they both received the 1997 National Medal of Technology and a number of other top prizes. The occasion was a board meeting of the Corporation for…
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A few weeks ago I attended the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. The theme of this year’s Symposium was Piloting the Untethered Enterprise: “In today's world of mobile, big data and the cloud, how does a CIO successfully pilot his organization towards its goals?” After listening to a number of talks and panels throughout the day,…
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The Internet era was born in the mid 1990s. On August 9, 1995, Netscape’s IPO caught the world by storm. It marked the passage of the Internet from a network primarily used by universities, research labs and geeks in general, to a platform with a vastly expanded reach and connectivity. Anyone with a personal computer…
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Earlier this year, IBM’s Institute for Business Value published a very good report – The Power of Cloud: Driving Business Model Innovation. Along with the Economist Intelligence Unit, the IBM study surveyed 572 business and technology executives around the world to learn how organizations use cloud today and how they plan to use it in…
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In June of 2008 I participated in a conference on cloud computing. After a full day of talks and discussions, the sense of the meeting was that cloud computing has the promise to bring a real paradigm shift to the IT world, although, as the conference organizer succinctly put it in his closing remarks: “There…
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Much has been written about the future role of the Chief Information Officer in the last few years. Many opinions have been put forward. All pretty much agree that fundamental changes, already underway, will take place over the next few years in how the IT function is organized and managed. Some feel that the CIO…
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Last week I wrote about the workshop I recently attended in IBM’s Almaden Research Lab on The Co-Evolution of Future Technologies, Skills, Jobs, and Quality-of-Life. In particular, I discussed the talk on the IT-based transformation of services given by John Zysman, professor of political science at UC Berkeley and co-director of the Berkeley Roundtable on…