It’s said that with great power comes great responsibility. Among business functions, the IT group has disproportionate control over what can and can’t happen in
Continue ReadingBy now it’s clear that mobile is the new global frontier for computing. People on every continent are embracing mobile as the primary method for
Continue ReadingThere is little recognition that the operating profile of IT leaders can vastly differ from organization to organization. This is most pronounced when studying how
Continue Reading“Governance? Process? Yuck, nasty words!” Those are the actual opening words I used in an introductory email to business leaders whom I was inviting to
Continue ReadingIt’s important to recognize that to run an IT project or to manage a team of IT developers requires good management techniques. But all too often, IT professionals exist and operate in a vacuum resulting in a variation of management absent of inputs such as market forces.
Continue ReadingWhile Facebook and the iPad garnered considerable attention this year — and rightly so — it is the free micro-blogging service Twitter that gets my
Continue ReadingWe are living in amazing times. Technology is changing the way we work and play at a considerable pace and there is no letup in
Continue ReadingWriting predictions is always fun because if you get one right it makes you look like you have extraordinary psychic skills. And if you get
Continue ReadingIn my 20 years providing IT services to organizations, I’ve never seen a technology that is so equally transformational and feared as cloud computing. I
Continue ReadingThis week I delivered the detailed framework for a 3-year IT strategy for O’Reilly Media, Inc. The strategy is the culmination of several months’ work
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