Articles on Technology Strategy

Your 18-month technology roadmap assumes certainty that doesn't exist. Plan for capabilities instead of tools, and build plans that survive reality.

Everyone has an AI platform and a polished demo. Here are the questions that separate real AI solutions from sales theater in 30 minutes.

AI coding tools feel like they're working, but the data says otherwise. The best engineers aren't coding faster — they're asking better questions.

Cloud migrations, CDO hiring sprees, and AI pilots all followed the same pattern: unanimous agreement, then expensive reversals. Consensus is a warning sign.

New research reveals experienced developers are 19% slower with AI tools, exposing the hidden process problems that actually control development speed.

That 'just ship it fast' decision created a $100K maintenance headache. Your developers aren't slow — they're paying interest on your shortcuts.

Technology trends expire. Vendors get acquired. But solid decision processes, adaptable teams, and good judgment compound over time. Build those.

The boring stuff wins: infrastructure, data governance, change management. Successful tech strategy is the iceberg below the waterline.

That crusty ERP from 2005 handles 80% of your critical processes. Before you replace everything, here's why legacy systems deserve a strategy seat.

While everyone focuses on shiny new technologies, these foundational decisions quietly determine whether your company thrives or struggles.

Tech decisions without business input build capabilities nobody asked for. Business decisions without tech input create impossible expectations.

Real-world lessons on balancing speed with stability and how tracking technical debt like financial debt can transform your development process.

Three warning signs your technical debt is critical: devs leaving, simple changes need refactoring, bug fixes create new bugs. Here's a fix framework.

The cost of indecision exceeds the cost of imperfect action. Technology decision paralysis drains productivity, morale, and competitive position.

Marketing departments have too many choices today. Without proper governance and selection processes, getting things done becomes impossible.

Will marketing continue to grow their technology budget? I think so.

The technology debate is usually the wrong debate. Focus on what value you will deliver with whatever technology you have or might acquire.

The cloud isn’t perfect but with the right planning, architecture and partners you can do quite a bit with the cloud that you might not be able to do without.

You don't need Hadoop for big data, but it is a great fit. Hadoop provides the underlying platform for analyzing very large data sets at scale.

Convergence delivers fast, efficient implementation of processing power, storage, and networking in a contained system that can be managed together.

Converged systems allow organizations to easily scale processing power, storage, and functionality to meet future data center needs.

There’s been much discussion of the concept of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) over the last few years. While the topic has been written about by many

Isaac Sacolick recently wrote a post titled Dear CIO, Here's How To Help the CMO with Marketing Automation where he talked about the need for CIO's and

Sponsored by Dimension Data. I just finished reading through the Dimension Data Secure Enterprise Mobility Report.The report is a nice report on how

Sponsored by Dimension Data. In Thinking about Robust Strategies for BYOD and Mobile, I wrote:  A robust strategy for BYOD and mobility requires a

Sponsored by Dimension Data. BYOD is a reality today. Organizations have been trying to figure out how to manage this new 'bring your own device' (BYOD)

We've all been there. Sitting in a meeting listening to a vendor pitch their solution. They bring a team in to your organization and spend a few hours

Open cloud technology lets companies build their own cloud platform while making it available to partners and other organizations for collaboration.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Note: I love technology...believe me I do.  I just really liked this photo :) I Just finished

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just finished watching an interview titled Cloud benefits are speed, simplicity and resource

I've been playing around with the idea of User Personas for use in technology selection projects.  I've used user personas while building various websites

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Application Modernization....only two words...but two words that denote a big undertaking for most

In the IT world, we tend to take a single-minded approach to our technology platforms.   We have email systems. We have web systems. We have HR and

Can all of the information technology assets within a small business be outsourced?  Could we see the IT desks within small businesses be as empty as

Short answer?  Nope. Long answer?  Read on :) Vince Kellen does a great job arguing the point in a post titled "Echolalia: The CIO is Dead! Long Live the

I'm a bit slow on my reading lately....so bear with me as I catch up. Just read through the 2010 State of the CIO Survey published by CIO.com. A few

Gene asks "Is Cloud Computing part of your Strategic Plan?" While Gene's question is a fair one, I have to ask a much simpler question....do you have a

I ran across a press release from Progress Software, that I though worth sharing with my regular The New CIO series readers. Below, you'll find an excerpt

Just finished reading Chris Curran's article on CIO.com titled How to Improve Your IT Planning in 2010 - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership.  Good

Just finished reading Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges My review in two words: Excellent book! Whether

Intuition vs. Data-Driven Decision-Making: Some Rough Ideas by Bob Sutton on Bob Sutton - Work Matters CIO and the Art of Decision Making by Arun

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. I just completed

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. I just read a 'call

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. My wife and I took a

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Are you agile? I'm

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Innovation. That's a

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Earlier this week, I

“None” is Not a Social Media Strategy by Chris Curran on CIO Dashboard Web 3.0 Is Coming – Are CIOs Ready? bt Dr. Jim Anderson on The Accidental

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. I've seen many

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Today's CIO is

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Ahhh...Social

What happens when you create the best strategic plan in the world but don't have a plan to implement it? Lots of wheel spinning and very little progress.

The Business of IT Blog has an article titled "3 Secrets That Oil Companies Use To Run A Great IT Department" that has some interesting insight from

In November 2008 I was asked to take a look at Leading IT Transformation: The Roadmap to Success from Oulette & Associates (O&A) and thought the

According to Information Week, the Top 10 issues for CIO's in 2009 are: Customer-Facing Innovation Attacking the 80/20 Ratio The Challenging Economy The

I ran across an absolutely amazing blog post from Mark Masterson titled 'The Enterprise Cloud' that really shed a lot of light on Cloud Computing in the

This is the last "Sunday Links" post for 2008...hope you find it a good one! Using Information to Develop Productive Relationships by Michael McKinney at

The Cutter Consortium blog has an interesting post titled "IT Trends and Antitrends for 2009".   Some interesting items listed...I've reproduced

Mike has a great post (that also mentions me...shameless plug?) titled Selling Web 2.0 to IT (also on Forbes here) that expands on a previous post of mine

Web 2.0.  A term that is overused and often misunderstood.  And one that has been touted for years by consultants as the 'next big thing' coming to

Mike Sebastian, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at SourceCheck....and a great guy to boot, has recently had an article published on InsideARM titled "The

Discusses the need to lead information technology