McGehee Ken

McGehee Ken

Ken McGee is vice president and the analyst of Gartner. 21 years work in the company and at the moment is a part of group of top managers. Specializes in interaction with top managers of the enterprises (investigates their expectations from IT), in influence on IT of the main business trends and social trends and also in use by persons and the organizations of information in real time for achievement of bigger competitiveness. Before joining Gartner, McGee was the vice president and the director of the international communications of Salomon Brothers in London (4 years) and also the director of communications of Goldman, Sachs & Co (8 years). The graduate of the Polytechnical university of New York, to the university graduated from Dowling College, New York.

On taking place in Los Angeles in the first of April, 2012 of Business Intelligence Summit Ken McGee, the vice president and the honored researcher of Gartner, during the performance made rather strong statement in relation to implementable IT projects. According to him if business divisions act as the initiator of projects, most of them do not meet fully the priorities designated by the top management – chief executives and to board members.

In the conditions of limited IT budgets, on the one hand, and the growing business needs, with another, reduction of projects in strict compliance with the development strategy of the company is a key task of heads of IT services. Representatives of Gartner provide rather sad statistics: for the last 11 years global IT budgets rose no more, than 3%. In the foreseeable future it is not necessary to expect higher growth rates – McGehee is sure. Slightly better the situation with outsourcing budgets is, they grow much more in high gear.

Gartner suggested to list priority tasks to representatives business and IT departments. The first indicated deduction and development of the customer base, involvement of highly qualified specialists, retrainings existing of increase in flexibility of response to needs of clients the need. Chief information officers are concerned by tasks of IT management, strategic planning, search of methods of extraction from IT of additional value for business, project management. As noticed McGehee, nobody is sure for 100% that as a result project deliverables will be measurable and transparent for audit for the purpose of assessment of pecuniary benefits for the company.

At the same time one of paramount priorities of any chief executive is increase in profitability indicators of the company. If business does not show growth, in the opinion of clients its value inevitably decreases. "The trouble is that Chief information officers in most cases did not manage to find a common language with heads of the companies and to learn to think of them of categories".