Ade McCormack's Latest Articles

• Implementing Poly-modal IT - The role of the CIO in creating new business models

  How CIOs can help transform the organisation from a factory format to a portfolio of experiments

• Brexit and Europe 2.0 - Pressing 'reset' Button on Europe

  Transitioning from the industrial to the digital era, is Brexit an opportunity to press reset button on Europe?

• A data-driven world? Industry 4.0 and the return of the tech-savvy CIO

  The 'dark assets' of Tinder, AirBnb and Uber - the IoT data brokerages and return of the CTO

• Disrupting Bimodal IT - The CIO as Poly-modal business innovator

  Opportunity for CIOs to become the portfolio CEO for a series of disruptive business models

• What is the IT function for and what will it become? The CIO as a strategic demand creator

  As the CIO and IT functions evolve, tack towards the strategic end of the business-relevance sprectrum

• Chief Why Officer

  Challenge everything within reason to become a Chief Why Officer, before reinventing yourself as the Chief Why Not Officer

• What is digital?

  CIOs need to be leading the digital conversation if a business is going to return more than just short term gains

• Chief Intelligence Officer

  The value proposition of your IT function needs to be revisited as more and more gets sucked into the cloud

• CIO, you are spoiling us!

  Does your boardroom see you as something of a Liberace; a flamboyant spender focused on acquiring stuff

• Life after prison - From Warden to Hotel Manager

  What type of model is more appropriate for overseeing the technology estate at your organisation?

• The Innovation Virus

  Set up an innovation centre - an exercise in expectation management where you show users the art of the possible

• The lean startup career

  The market is moving at a rapid pace - make career planning a daily rather than an annual activity

• The rough CIO travel guide

  The key phrases for CIOs to use if their desired destination is the boardroom

• CIO as a change agent and 'internal' start-up CEO

  Can the CIO lead a new business based on the digital economy alongside the existing model, ready for a big switch?

• Merging the CIO into the boardroom

  Those in a position of influence need to consider what role the CIO is to play going forward