Rob Enderle

CIOs: How to Get Your Teams to the Next Level Gartner issued a series of interesting predictions this week. Upon looking at them, you might think they are overly aggressive. But over the last decade, technology decisions have moved back to being driven by line executives rather than IT executives. Gartner bases its predictions historically […]

CIOs: How to Get Your Teams to the Next Level Social responsibility is an interesting topic for a corporation. On one hand, it speaks to making the world a better place. You’d think these efforts would be easily justified, but because financial analysts rarely see much value in something they can’t measure, they are often […]

Automating the Intelligence of Business Intelligence Last week, I was at the IBM Analyst update and one of the presentations really caught my interest. It was on how Watson could be used to do a massively better job of targeting buyers by profiling them and then developing individually targeted campaigns that should have record-breaking conversion […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 I’m up at IBM this week getting an update. IBM is going through a massive pivot from its traditional hardware-centric, end-to-end company to more of a cloud services and analytics company. Its core stats are impressive in that it now has 77K developers, growing at 8K a week, […]

Five Barriers for Enterprise Mobility Around 15 years ago, Microsoft announced the Windows Tablet, and a lot of us forecast that this represented the end of notebook computers and that we’d all move to this new form factor. This forecast was only amazing in that it was totally wrong. It wasn’t that the idea wasn’t […]

A briefing earlier this week on Varonis adding proactive analytics and predictive threat models to its User Behavior Analytics (UBA) solution took me back to my days at IBM as an internal auditor. Much of what Varonis does automatically is superior to how we were doing audits of email IT systems back then. But one […]

I was just taken through an update on Microsoft’s coming holographic technology, HoloLens, and it still looks amazing. I’ve demoed it several times and it is obvious that it has game potential but I wouldn’t buy it for gaming, at least not in its current form. However, as a business tool, with the right applications, […]

Using Monte Carlo Simulations for Disaster Preparedness As we approach Halloween, it seems appropriate to talk about some of the brain-dead stupid practices that can destroy projects and technology companies with evil glee. These monstrous practices can be mitigated by shining heroes armed with the mystical sword of common sense, but only if IT buyers […]

Six Tips for Turning Customer Feedback into a Powerful Business Tool Tesla is basically a car company built on Steve Jobs’ Apple company model. They both have design-first concepts, they both dominate their chosen segments (electric cars for Tesla), they both sell premium products, and they both wrap those products with powerful services. However, where […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 As you would expect, the opening of Dell World had a lot to do with the announced EMC merger. The goal is for Dell to build the biggest IT infrastructure company in the world. Michael Dell’s opening keynote focused on the power of the EMC merger for the […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 Watching the Dell/EMC story, as with any big merger, a lot of misinformation is being tossed about, particularly with regard to what is going to happen to parts of EMC once Dell buys them. Much of this is coming out of the various research firms and is being […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 I was chatting with Michael Dell the other day about what resources were critical to his turning around Dell. He declined sharing his turnaround experts, I think because he doesn’t want anyone to recruit them, but he did share that Jeff Clarke was critical to the effort, and […]