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, I came away with a few key impressions. Pretty much everyone agrees that we are in transition from the tethered, connected world of PCs, browsers and classic data centers to the untethered, hyperconnected world of smart mobile devices and cloud computing. The emergence of the untethered enterprise will have major implications for IT, for business and for society in general. But lots of questions remain as to what those implications might be. This is to be expected in the early stages of such a major transition.
Two back-to-back panels explored what it takes to successfully transition to the untethered enterprise, one consisting of academics, and one of CIOs. Not surprisingly, each of these panels viewed the opportunities and challenges through somewhat different lenses.
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