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2012 CIO Summit of America Highlights Crucial Role of IT as Driver of Business Growth

 

 

 

 

 

The 2012 CIO Summit of America held last week at the Harvard Club in New York was packed with great presentations, lively panel discussions and prime networking opportunities. If you were there, you know that I’m not exaggerating.

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Leveraging the Cloud to Drive Integration

 

The upside of free markets is that they typically bring out the best in everyone. The downside is that free markets are crowded with vendors who compete for your business. That’s good and bad for CIOs. The good part is that you have more choice and more leverage over pricing. The bad part [...]

The New Value Generators

 

This past week, I heard several people talk about the new role of the CIO as a generator of value for the business.  Their comments reminded me of a conversation I had a few weeks ago with Kim Hammonds, Vice President of IT Infrastructure at The Boeing Company. Kim told me a great [...]

Focusing on the Top Line

 

My good friend Tim Crawford is Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at All Covered, a division of Konica-Minolta Business Solutions USA. Tim has spoken at several of my CIO Executive Leadership events, and his message is always clear: Transformational CIOs don’t just “create value” for the enterprise, they drive [...]

It’s All a Question of Perspective

 

Last week, I had a long conversation with Mark Hillman, Vice President, Strategy and Product Line Management at Compuware Corporation.  Our conversation ranged far and wide, but one of Mark’s observations about cloud computing really struck home.  We were talking about all the usual concerns around the cloud. Security, of course, topped the [...]

Replacing the “Perpetual Pendulum” with a Virtuous Cycle

 

On Monday I had the pleasure of chatting with Randy Spratt, the EVP, CIO and CTO of McKesson Corporation, one of the world’s leading healthcare services and information technology companies.  McKesson is currently ranked 14th on the FORTUNE 500. McKesson is a company worth knowing about. McKesson’s primary business is helping hospitals, physicians, and [...]