A CIOs Christmas Gift Wish List To Santa

Its the time of the year where I act like a 10 year old with glee and hope in my eyes, as I draw up a gift list hoping Santa will deliver them. As a CIO I absolutely would love any kind of divine intervention to help me out as I deal with various issues. 

My wish list goes as follows:

Dear Santa,

My list is as follows:

1. I want Google to make up their mind, whether they want to remain a consumer services organization or they want to be an enterprise solution company as well. If they decide to get into the enterprise space as well, I want them to price their services in a manner they can sustain enterprise offerings, build a team that can understand and manage enterprises and commit resources to mould a part of Google that is compatible with the way enterprises want to run their IT.
2. No man is an island, and technology is here to serve mankind. No technology can stay relevant if it operates in isolation. Its funny that everyone talks of collaboration, team work and productivity while Apple, Google and Microsoft have built walls around their proprietary platforms. Dear Santa, I want you to give a contract to Leonardo DiCaprio to go back in time and invade the minds of Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Steve Ballmer and plant the thought of creating a standard for interoperability between iOS, Windows 8 and android mobile platforms, helping enterprises to carry more effectively and efficiently a safe , secure and sustainable mobility strategy with heterogeneity as an integral feature.
3. I wish for divine intervention to clear up the mobility space and drive clarity. If some need to die, please make it quick and painless (for everyone). Please bestow sustenance for the existing virtues of creativity, sense of purpose, social relevance and enterprise adaptability with all the players in the mobility space.
4. Dear Santa, please give Leanardo DiCaprio a second contract to invade the dreams of all cloud service providers, planting the thought of creating a standard for interoperability and data exchange between clouds and for creating a standard framework and template for shifting data and workloads across clouds.
5. I wish for the gift of the ability to quickly unlearn and sit in a discussion without carrying the burden of having to accept or reject everything being; for my team and me and for the world at large. I wish this for all politicians specifically.
6. I want CISOs to get more business friendly and find ways to support adoption of new invasive initiatives rather than fight it!
7. I wish for Microsoft to realize that mail, messaging and collaboration is availably free of cost thru social networking sites and get off their high horse and find a way to have more meaningful dialogue with the enterprise. I hope Microsoft's global leadership realizes this and re-structure their organization to operate more meaningfully in the current context and become pace setters in time to come.
8. Dear Santa, please help me understand why I feel so hollow for Windows 8 as the next enterprise desktop computing platform. I am not able to analyse this hollowness in me effectively!
9. I wish apple store infrastructure becomes available to the enterprises as a service enabling deliver enterprise app stores to our customers, partners and employees riding on apples creation.
10. The last wish is a more personal one. Santa, I wish for the next new apple offering to be a personal device that can transport people across time and space. I , for once, want to say beam me up Scotty and experience it happen before I die. I also wish for the world to be free of guns (specially US and UP) , children to be safe, polar ice caps to stop melting and last but not the least , both Cameroon Diaz and me get 5 years younger each year for the next two years and then stop ageing!

Santa, some logistics. If you are flying around India, collecting the wish lists, your 3G might not work effectively everywhere and hence you might not be able to access this blog. To make it easier, I will hang a sock on the christmas tree with the wish list in it. Not too complicated a list, I am sure. For a hi-flier like you, this is easily do-able. Santa, you now operate in a world that is performance oriented, goal driven and results oriented. I will soon email you the balance scorecard based on which you will be appraised. You will get a 5/5 if you just manage to deliver to my last wish. You will get a special performance incentive bonus, if you manage to make any three of my first 9 wishes happen. No pressure buddy. Just do it!

Merry  Christmas and a happy holiday season to one and all. Hope your families and you have a blast bringing in the new year later this month. Wishing your families and you a fantastic 2013 filled with peace, prosperity, good health and happiness.
Cheers.