Dateline: April 25, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius lost her job as the result of the disastrous HealthCare.gov project. While no one expected her to actually write code and she certainly had some of the best IT advisors available to help manage the … [Read more...]
Learning from Target’s Big Hack
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Dateline: April 18, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. In late 2013, the biggest retail hack in US history took place at, unfortunately for them, Target. Forty million credit card numbers and 70 million addresses, phone numbers and other pieces of personal information were stolen from their data base. BusinessWeek recently published … [Read more...]
Emotional Intelligence in Your IT Leaders
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Dateline: April 11, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Do your IT leaders have a high level of emotional intelligence (EI)? Recently Sanjog Aul, founder and host of CIO Talk Radio recently interviewed consultant and former CIO Scot Berkey. Scot is also a long time facilitator at the SIM Regional Leadership Forum in Chicago and an … [Read more...]
Managing IT Talent: Building a People Architecture
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Dateline: April 4, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. CIO.com recently published an article about the need to rethink how we manage IT talent. Senior writer Rich Hein interviewed David Foote, cofounder of Foote Partners and expert on the people side of IT management and wrote about building a people architecture. Businesses … [Read more...]
Big Data and Intermediaries
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Dateline: March 28, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, professor, researcher, entrepreneur and author Dr. Tom Davenport published his newest book, Big Data at Work. He also published a blog about "Book Publishing's Big Data Future" on Harvard Business Review's blog network. In that blog, he writes, In my book I talk about … [Read more...]
Upgrading Legacy IT: Financial Services vs Healthcare
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Dateline: March 14, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, two different articles crossed my desk that showed vastly different outcomes to the way legacy IT was managed. The first article, Big Banks' Legacy IT Systems Could Kill Them, described the unfortunate circumstances faced by a number of large banks: their legacy IT … [Read more...]
Data Security and the Twentysomethings
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Dateline: February 28, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea looks at data security across age groups. In a recent blog at HBR.org, titled, Do Millennials Believe in Data Security?, Editor Sarah Green shared some recent statistics about data security. The SoftChoice survey found that, 28.5% of twenty-somethings keep … [Read more...]
