SAP’s New CIO on The Power of Information

SAP announced today that Oliver Bussmann will be taking over as CIO from September 1, 2009, reporting to the SAP COO Ernie Gunst. Bussmann will be moving to Walldorf from the San Francisco Bay Area where has been working as the Regional CIO of Allianz for North America and Mexico. His prior roles include other posts within the Allianz Group in Germany and the United States, as well as at Deutsche Bank. He began his career at IBM in Germany. Bussmann... [Read More...]

Economist CIO and Technology Leaders Forum, London

I presented yesterday evening at an executive dinner forum for CIOs at Claridge’s in London. The event was part of The Economist Conferences’ CIO and Technology Leaders forum, which brought together CIOs from a diverse range of companies including Rentokil, Rolls-Royce, the Salvation Army, Tube Lines, BAA, and Aston Martin Lagonda. Carla Rapoport of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) took the attendees through the highlights of a new study... [Read More...]

Economist Research: Decision-Making in Turbulent Times

Technology is indeed the answer! Or at least, that’s what is suggested by a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, Staying the course? Technology decision-making in turbulent times. The study shows that the current climate provides a good opportunity to drive through major initiatives, that business leaders are looking to technology as in important instrument to prepare their firms for recovery, and that the key importance of better information... [Read More...]

Who’s in Charge of Information?

According to a recent InformationWeek article, CIOs aren’t very visible in today’s Fortune 100 companies, at least measured by their tendency to appear on the company’s management team web page. Even at companies like Google and eBay, where information is the lifeblood of the organization, the CIOs don’t appear among the other  top execs (at Business Objects, CIO Sheri Andersen makes the cut, but she’s shown... [Read More...]