In an early session we heard McKinsey outline their view of long-term mega-trends.  These ranged from the impact of differing world demographics and economies that point towards eventual convergence between the GDPs of Asia and Europe in some 15 years time; the concomitant pressure on commodities and natural resources especially water as consumption rapidly grows; [...]

Over the past three months, I have focused on running a high-profile campaign at Computing, aimed at discussing the future of IT leadership and the skills needed by the successful technology managers in the future.
After speaking with an extensive pool of top-class IT chiefs, the main traits of tomorrow’s IT leaders were identified and one [...]

IT Leaders are increasingly being called upon to deliver innovation within their organisations. A recent ’Strategic Insight Survey - an IT leadership perspective’ conducted by PA Consulting Group in partnership with Harvey Nash found that 84% of those surveyed indicated that the board looked to IT organisation to deliver innovation, but 78% reported only ‘limited’ or ‘reasonable’ [...]

How quickly sentiment changes. We all knew six months ago that the year was going to be tough. And yet we still talked assertively of the importance of innovating in tough times. Didn’t all those success stories begin in recessions? Google, Apple, etc. Aren’t recessions those times where you steal a march over your struggling [...]

There’s a lot of debate at the moment about the challenge of managing ‘Millennials’ or ‘Generation Y’. Does the arrival of the first true digital natives in the workforce really represent a defining moment in the history of management? Or is our anxiety over these demanding youngsters just another chapter in the record of inter-generational [...]