Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs – The Impact of Technological Change
The rate of change in the IT industry has increased dramatically in recent years, but overall technological change has moved ahead even faster. Such is the pace that it’s been imposing a disruptive forward drag on enterprises and it’s been…
When Buying and Selling in “Local Currency” Takes on a New Meaning
When we usually think of buying in local currencies, most procurement and finance minds think about denominating contracts in local currencies (e.g., RMB) rather than in the dollar or Euro. But the concept of local currency takes on an entirely diffe…
Cloud-Based BPM Vendors: Geography Matters
Image via Wikipedia I’ve spoken with a lot of cloud-based BPM vendors over the past few years, and I inevitably ask where their services are hosted. Since almost all of these are American companies, or are primarily targeting the American market, the answer is, almost inevitably, in the United States. I continue to point out [...]
Can IBM POWER 7 hit the C-spot?
I attended a briefing last week in London with Rod Adkins, SVP IBM Systems and Technology Group, and Robert LeBlanc, who runs IBM’s middleware business. The subject at hand was the new POWER7 chip. If you’re not a hardcore IBM server customer you’ve possibly never heard of POWER. It runs IBM’s mainframes, Unix boxes and [...]
CFO Supply Risk Ignorance is Not Bliss — Looking Forward While Gauging the Damage
With a hat-tip to Bob Ferrari, I came across a December study conducted by CFO Research Services and American Express. The study surveyed finance executives on their views on economic recovery, and on their corporate behavior during the downturn. The…
