Fordham CIO Roundtable: Global CIO survey (May 19th, 2010)

Marianne Cooper from IBM presented the findings of IBM's Global CIO Study, based on interviews of more than 2500 CIOs across multiple countries and industries.

The study identified profiles of CIOs like "insightful visionary" and "able pragmatist". Leveraging data and analytics across all business areas is a great opportunity and the top priority for CIOs. Other priorities are (a) Virtualization and Cloud computing, (b) Risk management and compliance, (c) Mobility. Centralization and standardization is another trend.

A more general lesson for CIOs is to proactively reach out to the business to co-create and champion innovation. Maybe the greatest untapped opportunity for tech leaders is to show the business side what is possible.

Links

- IBM CIO Study site

Fordham CIO Roundtable: Enterprise 2.0 (Nov. 20th 2009)

Abha Kumar from Vanguard Group gave an excellent presentation about Enterprise 2.0 in Vanguard at our latest Fordham CIO Roundtable meeting.

Enterprise 2.0 is about the use of Web 2.0 technologies (like social technologies and media, blogs, wikis, etc.) at the enterprise level. It is about communication, collaboration and knowledge-sharing. Fundamentally, Enterprise 2.0 is about "breaking barriers" within and across companies, and this is a journey that is just beginning. It is great to see financial firms--traditionally maximal-control organizations due to culture and regulations -- to consider openness initiatives and to have a strong conviction that this is "the future". Another great example of the power of IT to transform all aspects of business and to create the future!

The great presentation spawned a lively discussion about Enterprise 2.0 in Financial firms and related obstacles (e.g. legal department...), cost-allocation issues, and opportunities.

As usual, the meeting of the Fordham CIO Roundtable took place at Fordham's Lincoln Center location (Lowenstein Hall, 113 W. 60th Street). Participants include many CIOs and IT execs and managers from the greater NY area and faculty members of the Information and Communication Systems (ICS) area of Fordham U. Business Schools. The CIO Roundtable is co-ordinated by Professor Aditya Saharia and it meets once per month.

The promise of Open Source ERP

cio magazine discusses several examples of mid-size firms that are seeking to migrate to a new ERP system and have chosen an Open Source ERP (e.g. Compiere). Primary reasons? Avoid proprietary vendor lock-in, flexibility when it comes to customization (and cost savings at least for licensing).

As these early adopters had a very positive experience, open source ERP adoption may grow fast in the coming years.