The Evolving Role of the IT Manager – Part 2
Question: How can the modern IT manager leverage the new technologies to deliver the most business value to their organization? Previously I touched on the nature of the IT manager’s role and how it is...
View ArticleTaking Back IT – SaaS Portfolio Management
Question: New SaaS applications seems to be popping up everywhere in my organization. How can IT address the pressure from the business units to support these ad hoc applications and integrate them...
View ArticleTaking Business to the Clouds – Getting out of the Operations Ghetto
Question: Recently there has been a big push to develop private cloud computing services for the enterprise. How can IT management really to take advantage of the benefits and avoid the hype? It is...
View ArticleVaulting into the Cloud – Creating your Cloud Portfolio
Question: Are there any good evaluation criteria for determining which applications in a corporate portfolio are good candidates to migrate into the Cloud? Now that businesses are convinced that they...
View ArticleCulture Eats Strategy for Breakfast – IT innovation in the real world
Question: How can established companies create a culture that encourages and rewards innovation? Years ago, Fred Tuffile, my entrepreneurship professor at Bentley University once said the biggest...
View Article2012 MIT CIO Symposium – The surprisingly tethered untethered enterprise
Question: What is the leading edge thinking about the emerging role of mobile in the modern enterprise? The 2012 MIT CIO symposium purported theme was the untethered enterprise. Ironically for all...
View ArticleExtreme Enterprise BYOD
Question: What would happen if you took an employee owned devices policy to its logical extreme? What would happen if companies stopped providing systems and devices to their workers and required...
View Article2013 – Year of the Cloud for Sure this Time
Will the predicted Cloud Computing revolution finally arrive? Has Platform as a Service (PaaS) finally matured enough to be widely adopted? These and other burning questions are part of Cloud...
View ArticleThe Enterprise Finally gets Cloud
Yes, it is a bit trite to say it now, but Cloud Computing has become a multi-billion dollar business which really has revolutionized Information Technology consumption for both the consumer and...
View ArticleIs IT Still Relevant?
When an inpatient business unit marketing manager with a credit card can stand up an instance of Salesforce in a matter of a few days, and many companies have long outsourced their daily IT operations,...
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