The IT Department Is Dead. Long Live the IT Department
In the brave new world imagined by four Silicon Valley startups -- Evernote, Box, GitHub, and Asana -- the role of IT is changing. Instead of the people who say no, they will be the people who say yes.
View ArticleBig Data Insights Without Big Data Entry
My brand new Xbox One has a new feature — its Kinect camera recognizes users’ faces and automatically logs them in. The new feature saves me nine clicks and 45 seconds compared to my old Xbox 360....
View ArticleThe New Year’s Resolution for CIOs: No More Legacy Apps
It is time to face a bitter truth: If your new applications are not cloud and mobile, you are burdening yourself with more legacy software. Any on-premise, Web application built in 2014 without cloud...
View ArticleBig Data for Healthcare: End of the Zombie Film Genre
I remember as a child watching the horrific treatment of Ryan White as he was expelled from middle school and became the poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States. A young boy, not much older than...
View ArticleA Path to Re-Empowering IT: Rise of the Application Delivery Tier
The most recent evolutions on the Web — including the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, big data and cloud — have caused not just an explosion of connections between devices and web services, but also...
View ArticleStalled Progress? Why So Few Women Are in IT and How to Fix It
There’s little argument that women have made gigantic strides in the business world in the past few decades. Though much of it has been incremental and at times slow, there is at least some progress to...
View ArticleA Quantum Theory of IT Monitoring
There are certain things, which are true in the quantum world, but just make no sense in our reality. I remember in a college advanced physics course, having to calculate the likelihood that a baseball...
View ArticleWinning the War on Mobile File Sharing
What a difference a decade makes. No more than 10 years ago, the traditional knowledge worker had limited options when it came to simple document collaboration and file sharing outside of the office....
View ArticleWhy Technology ‘Plumbers’ Are Turning to ‘Interior Design’
I’m a plumber, and have been for most of my career. While I don’t work with wrenches, pipes or PVC saws, I’ve spent the last 15 years building IT infrastructure and management tools for enterprise...
View ArticleDon’t Get Bullied by IT
In a modern world of self-service technology, enterprises have been introduced to a new technology — shadow IT. Shadow IT, also known as rogue IT or stealth IT, can be defined as IT systems and...
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The Changing Role of IT: What iPhone 6, iOS 8 Mean to Business
Every time Apple comes out with a new product, the media is abuzz with excitement. This shouldn’t come as a surprise — Apple is the technology leader who not only has its pulse on future technology...
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The Golden Age of IT: The Future Is Bright — If You Embrace the Empowered...
When thinking about your IT department, words like “user friendly” and “responsive” are not the first that come to mind. More likely, it would be “unresponsive” or even “the department of no.” Sadly,...
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Old vs. New IT: Innovate and Drive Disruption or Face Irrelevance
Nearly every company has a story about trying to transform its operations as a result of opportunity or crisis. In either case, leadership must admit that the current way of doing things is in danger...
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The Rise of Apple in the Enterprise: Should Business Users and IT Alike Rejoice?
Over the last few weeks the internet has abounded with articles on the fact that Apple is gearing up to take on the enterprise. The company’s partnership with IBM, which was unveiled back in July, is...
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‘Facebook at Work’? There’s Certainly Some Work to Be Done
This year, Facebook celebrated its 10th birthday and in a blog back in February I discussed the huge impact that the social networking site had made on enterprise technology. Now, according to reports,...
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Surviving the Digital Revolution: IT’s New Role With the C-Suite
Technology writer Nicholas Carr caused a stir in 2003 when the Harvard Business Review published his article with the provocative title “IT Doesn’t Matter.” Carr argued that IT had become an industrial...
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Dropbox Steps Up to Rescue Us From Corporate Software
Dropbox is launching an API that lets outside developers build software on top of Dropbox for Business, a move that sounds very much in enterprise software weeds. But ultimately the new feature...
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Is the Need for Speed Bringing Developers to the Breaking Point?
Has the business obsession with speed reached a breaking point for software developers? As a chief executive, I know software development teams are always being pushed to deliver new applications, add...
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IT and You: Role Reversal and Tech ‘Consumerization’
Enterprise IT is becoming a commodity. The cloud makes it easy for companies to provide updates and feature upgrades constantly, behind the scenes. As a result, the leaders in every technology category...
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Why Technology ‘Plumbers’ Are Turning to ‘Interior Design’
I’m a plumber, and have been for most of my career. While I don’t work with wrenches, pipes or PVC saws, I’ve spent the last 15 years building IT infrastructure and management tools for enterprise...
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