Don Tennant

Fifty Technology Start-Ups to Watch If you’re a woman and you’re thinking about starting a business venture, you need to do whatever it takes to become tech-savvy first. And you need to go it alone, because business partnerships, like marriages, far too often end in acrimonious divorce. That’s the advice of Frances Kweller, a successful […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths I wrote in a previous post about a data center survey that found that CEOs, not CIOs, are the ones who most frequently make data center-related purchasing decisions. I noted that I wasn’t particularly surprised by that finding, but there was another finding in the same survey that did […]

Tensions Between IT and Business Leadership Force New Approach to Delivering Technology According to a study recently released by Forrester Consulting, data center related purchasing decisions in companies of all sizes are more likely to be made by the CEO than by the CIO, or by any other IT executive. I recently had the opportunity […]

Reduce Risk: Six Vulnerable Points Enterprises Need to Consider Last week’s reemergence of Edward Snowden into the news cycle, following his interview with NBC News and the subsequent debate about the extent to which Snowden had worked within the system to convey his concerns about NSA’s intelligence-gathering activities, was valuable for IT professionals. The debate […]

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges Massive security breaches, like the Target breach last December, and the infamous TJX breach in 2007, have something conspicuously in common: The data that would have enabled the companies to detect those breaches existed in their environments, and proper data analysis would have found them. The reason companies […]

Technology Strategy No Longer Just an IT Responsibility The increasingly crucial nature of building engaging relationships with customers is also changing the relationship between CIOs and chief marketing officers. The role of the latter has become so core to the business that it might well make sense for the CIO to report to him. That […]

Seven Data Obstacles You Need to Overcome to Drive Cross-Channel Marketing A surge in technology IPOs in the first quarter of 2014 was driven in large part by China, following the reopening in December of that country’s IPO market, PwC has reported in a newly released study. According to the PwC study, “Global Technology IPO […]

Tensions Between IT and Business Leadership Force New Approach to Delivering Technology Last week, I wrote a post that addressed the question of whether CIOs need the help of a chief strategy officer (CSO). Let’s say your company decides to give the CSO idea a shot. What do you look for, and how does this […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 Last week’s IPO filing in the United States by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba was a shot across the bow of U.S. digital properties like Google, Facebook and Twitter to step up their pace of innovation to remain relevant in a global digital marketplace. That was […]

Tensions Between IT and Business Leadership Force New Approach to Delivering Technology In a previous post, I wrote about Matt Tenney, a leadership consultant with a fascinating background that included five-and-a-half years in prison. In an interview, Tenney shared some inspiring lessons he learned from that experience, and offered some simple advice to IT leaders: […]

Seven Evolving Leadership Qualities for the Twenty-First Century A CIO is nothing if not the chief strategy officer for IT. That being the case, what happens when the company hires someone to fill a corporate chief strategy officer (CSO) role, as increasing numbers of companies are doing? I discussed that issue earlier this week with […]

Transforming IT from a Department of ‘No’ to a Business Enabler If you’re an IT leader who aspires to achieve success and fulfillment in your career and in your personal life, here’s a tip: Rather than focusing on what’s in it for you, focus instead on how you can be of service to others. That’s […]