What will the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) look like in 2020? The CIO role is one that really appeared during the 1990s in…
Most organisations reward their project managers for achieving scope, within a given timeframe for a specified budget. While scope is usually measured in terms of…
The nineteen century belonged to the engineers. Western society had been invigorated and changed beyond recognition by the industrial revolution through its early years and…
When the telephone was invented the first networks were private, typically between rich individuals and their industrial interests. Pretty quickly, though, people wanted to be…
Since the 1980s the costs associated with functions that are shared have been increasingly allocated to business units in such a way as to drive…
In the 1990s Philippe Kahn, a founder of Borland (a big name in programming languages), left and began a new enterprise called Starfish. He talked…
If you’re a Chief Information Officer (CIO) there are three things that your organization expects of you: 1) keep everything running; 2) add new capabilities;…
In my book, Information-Driven Business, I introduce a four layer model for information. You can also read more about this model in the MIKE2.0 article:…
It is easy to assume that access to massive amounts of information is good for society. Perhaps we should also look at the role the…
I was recently asked by ABC Radio National in Australia to explain the principles behind my book, Information-Driven Business. The following is extracted from the…