Vinnie Mirchandani
CEO of Deal Architect, a top advisory boutique recognized in The Black Book of Outsourcing, author of a widely praised book on technology enabled innovation, The New Polymath, prolific blogger, writing about technology-enabled innovation at New Florence, New Renaissance and about waste in technology at Deal Architect. Previously Analyst at Gartner, Partner with PwC Consulting. Keynoted at many business and technology conferences and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, CIO Magazine, and other executive and technology publications.
Lean in many different directions
Kudos to Sheryl Sandberg on her new book. She is a great role model to my daughter and a number of other young ladies. But a reality check comes from freshman US Senator Mazie Hirono “I’m a woman. I’ll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate. I am an [...]
If I were a CMO
I would bask in all the attention the IT world is paying to me seeing that I am going to be spending lots of $$$ in the next few years. If Gartner says it is true, the IT world usually jumps, correct? But I would be pissed that many IT vendors treat me like an [...]
The Fall and Rise of Verticals
In the late 90s, Gartner used to grade outsourcers on a poster with scores for verticals, horizontals, geographies. Couple of those years, I was on the team which graded the offerings. A provider gave us the same reference client for the rows for the media and entertainment vertical, finance and accounting processes and for ERP [...]
The Mythical Traditional CIO
Dion Hinchcliffe talks about the growing shift of tech dollars to the CMO, and even more shrinking of the CIO’s role. Several reactions: a) Marketing is only the latest buying center to come to the attention of tech market watchers. Few people seem to acknowledge the CMO has long used TV audience monitoring, POS data, [...]
Infor: a grown-up stealth start-up
I have known Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor for going on 2 decades now. He was a polymath way before I wrote a book celebrating them. He has computer science and law degrees in addition to an MBA. He is on the board of a media company, a museum, a jazz organization and a charity. [...]
The Incumbents Advantage
I am a big fan of Clayton Christensen’s “Innovator’s Dilemma”. and his other writings. My blogs and books similarly celebrate disruptors and innovators. But, “Dilemma” first came out in 1997, and I think we need to acknowledge how companies which should long have been disrupted and dead continue to survive and, in many cases, even [...]
Win8 like a first time visit to WalMart
I have been playing with my Win8 Ultrabook for the last week, gradually exploring its features. My friend Louis Columbus tells me Microsoft has bought into “Personas” in its development philosophy simulating how different roles navigate its software. I think they forgot one persona – that of a tourist who enters a US WalMart on [...]
The end of the social enterprise?
Peter Goldmacher at Cowen and Larry Dignan/Dennis Howlett at ZDNet have painted in the last few days a bleak view of the social enterprise. It is interesting to read their comments in a week which starts with the Connect event which showcases IBM’s attempts to reposition Lotus Notes as social, and ends with the Super [...]
SAP cloudwashes its image
Watching the playoffs this weekend, I chuckled when I saw SAP is the NFL’s Official Cloud Software Solutions provider. Not sure how much it cost SAP but they are clearly eager to be considered “cloudy”. Since the revenues show a tiny cloud profile (prelim 2012 results show cloud revenues at EU 270 m in IFRS, [...]
May the math and stat majors inherit the tech world
I started my career at PW as an accountant. I have a long since expired CPA certificate as memory. It was good business grounding for an MBA and required experience back then before you could move into PW’s consulting arm. But I was bored as hell and tried to get a job on Wall Street [...]
