If you didn’t have the chance to attend either of Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo conferences, TechTarget had teams at both the US and European shows.
Read all the news, tips and advice that was generated from the Barcelona and Orlando based conferences.
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Barcelona, Spain
Intelligent augmented reality demonstrated by Autonomy's
CEO
Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy, used a poster of Mona Lisa and film posts of Harry Potter and
Despicable Me demonstrate how the company’s technology could capture images of the posters
whilst running on an iPad.
Find out what took place during Lynch’s “The biggest transition in the history of IT” where Lynch
discussed the future of interactive technology.
Cloud won’t make it on the squad, says London
Olympics CIO
London Olympics CIO, Gerry
Pennell, feels cloud computing is a far cry from being ready for any mission-critical
applications during the 2012 games. Discover why in a presentation, at Gartner Symposium, he said
“It would be a very brave man who would use cloud computing to measure athletic performance.”
Visa
Europe CIO talks IT challenges at its banks after separation from US
Steve Chambers, CIO at Visa Europe, shares how the separation of Visa
Europe from Visa Inc required a new IT system. Read why Chambers took the decision to revert
back to the US system, after the new version had finally gone live.
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando, Florida
Top
10 tips on how CIOs can demonstrate the value of IT
Since the CIO job title was invented the CIO has stressed over trying to close the gap between IT
spending and tangible business results. New research released will do little to lower the CIOs
anxiety levels, so read these 10 tips on how to demonstrate the value of IT.
CIOs talk enterprise
technology and money money money
More than 100 CIOs and IT professionals discuss their main concern with enterprise mobility at
ITxpo – money. Other concerns included security
and how the employee push to use consumer grade technology is unstoppable.
Gartner
tells CIOs to generate more revenue for the sake of their budgets
CIOs must drive and generate new
revenue or risk losing their budgets and maybe even their departments, according to Gartner.
Find out what Gartner has put in its "new CIO manifesto."
Kaplan’s CIO aims to makes data dance for mobile
app digital users
Bernardo Rodriguez, CIO of Kaplan, discusses a challenge that has become a top concern for CIOs:
Making data dance for the digital user. Rodriguez tells how he needs to make his company a more
digitally centric company, and a more user-centric company.
CIOs share views on value of a good leader and gaining
power with common sense
Stop being an order taker and start using your common sense, was the advice from an IT director at
a large US pharmaceutical company. Find out his views on too many IT departments giving power away,
by only taking orders, instead of remembering to treat end users like customers.
Creative destruction encouraged at Gartner
Symposium/ITxpo
Read why Gartner analysts are urging CIOs to embrace creative
destruction and to “re-imagine IT.” According to the research house, CIOs need to take a step back
and occasionally embrace a little imperfection.
More tips and news for the CIO
Enterprise
virtualisation guide for CIOs
CIO predictions for
2012
CIOs are improving business processes through automation
What CIOs don't know about vendor
relationship management can hurt
Information security policies and practices
for CIOs
Email Alerts
This was first published in November 2011
