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Ok, enough of this cloud stuff already! The field of IT is just like every other field out there and we have our own share of trendy topics – cloud computing sure seems to the one that we’re dealing with right now. With all of the magazine articles on clouds and conferences going on, you’d … Read more
If IT was a game show and you were a contestant on it, right now it sure seems as though you could correctly any question that you were asked by replying “cloud computing”. That’s because cloud computing, basically outsourcing parts of your next IT project’s IT infrastructure and applications, sure seems like a great idea. … Read more
I guess I could have used a different title also “Make Your Data Unsecure and Sink Your Career”! Although IT Leaders spend much of their time worrying about making sure that their IT teams are working together to be successful, that pesky issue of data security keeps creeping into everything that we do. Maybe it’s … Read more
What if software was free? Every IT Leader has to stop and ask themselves this question every once in awhile. With the cost of ERP and database systems constantly increasing, software costs can quickly become a significant expense for any IT department. The “Open Source” software movement, born in the days when Napster was giving … Read more
If you’ve been reading any of the trade press over the last couple of years, you have undoubtedly run across story after story that talked about the next big thing in IT: on-demand computing. I’m willing to bet that members of your IT team may be clambering to take your next project “into the cloud”. … Read more
IT Leaders hope to be able to do their work in a secure environment – the last thing that any of us want to have worry about is dealing with an attack on our servers or network from bad guys. However, have you ever stopped to wonder just who’s job it is to keep everything … Read more
There probably isn’t a problem out there that couldn’t be solved by adding some IT to it. In fact, once you had done that, you could probably make that solution even better by adding more IT to it. At what point is too much IT considered to be too much of a good thing? IT … Read more
If you were a bank manager and all of sudden one day armed and masked criminals walked in through the bank’s front door and demanded money, what would you do? I can think of a whole bunch of possible options, many of them suggested by countless action movies. The key point here is that you … Read more
As IT Leaders, we should all be trying harder to find ways to use the talents of our teams to make our companies run smoother. Hmm, I wonder if there are any companies out there that could serve as an example for us? Good news – there is one: >Avis rental cars. How Hard Can … Read more
Good IT Leaders find ways to use the tools that IT provides along with the skills that their teams have in order to help the company move faster and do more. Nowhere is this currently more visible than in the world of retail sales… Do Retail Stores Even Still Exist? After the past bruising few … Read more