Don't be shy - tell us about YOURSELF

I was disappointed to read Charlie Feld's responses as Computerworld interviewed him and other industry "rock stars" about what's in store for 2007. As I have written before Feld definitely qualifies as an industry rock star. But nothing in the interview talked about how EDS is innovating. I have the same complaint about the EDS blog about "The Next Big Thing" - it's all about others innovations - little about how they are themselves changing.

It is frustrating to see Charlie, Sam at IBM, Mark at HP, Ivan at Verizon, Hennig at SAP and on and on talk about CIOs and their customers can do to  innovate - but do not talk much about what they are doing to internally innovate.  Big vendors represent 75% of all IT spend. What an individual CIO can do is peeing in the wind compared to what Charlie could do for the industry if EDS redefines what customers get for the $ 20 billion it charges a year, IBM $ 90 billion etc.

Tell us how you are innovating - delivering more utility computing, more virtualization, more efficient maintenance, global delivery etc. That could be the best marketing you do for yourself.