Dateline: March 27, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Professors Timothy J. Kloppenborg and Debbie Tesch, from Xavier University’s Williams College of Business, published a thought-provoking research study about project success in the Sloan Management Review. The article, How Executive Sponsors Influence Project Success, … [Read more...]
Apps are Headed for Extinction
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Dateline: March 20, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently Paul Adams, VP of Products at @Intercom, a customer communications software company, published a thoughtful blog, titled The End of Apps as we Know Them on the future of apps. In it he suggests, The idea of having a screen full of icons, representing independent … [Read more...]
Minimizing IT Job Frustration
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Dateline: March 13, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, John Reed, Senior Executive Director at Robert Half Technology, published a short article about 5 Top Sources of Job Frustrations for Your IT Team. He said, In our work with clients, we often hear them mention five sources of discontentment among tech … [Read more...]
Customers Know What You Should Measure
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Dateline: January 30, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, my friend and (former) colleague, Vaughan Merlyn published a short but thoughtful blog titled, "What Should We Be Measuring?" In it, Vaughan summarized his thoughts in two insights, Insight #1: If you want to know what to measure, ask your customer what is … [Read more...]
Manage Slowly to Move Fast
January 16, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 16, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This weekend's idea comes from a relatively new voice on strategic thinking for IT leaders. Chris Gebhardt, former SWAT and current IT leader, has started a blog, IT Tid-bits about Information Technology. A recent post provided our thought-provoking idea for this week's … [Read more...]
The Problem with SDN
November 28, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 28, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Software defined future. As our environments increase in complexity and demand faster response time, manually managing allocation of resources in the IT infrastructure becomes impossible. A software defined network, one that senses and reacts instantly, is the current … [Read more...]
Managing Agile
November 7, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 7, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's idea stems from the increasingly fast paced business environment we all operate in. Just when it feels like we have our hands around a project, something shifts and the race is on again to shift with it. Agile development is the current way IT shops manage this … [Read more...]
IT Focuses More On the Business and Less On Internal Services
October 10, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 10, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from a recent survey of the Society for Information Management (SIM) membership which indicated that IT is in a transition in many organizations. Leon Kappelman, IT Professor at the University of North Texas and the study's lead researcher, was quoted … [Read more...]
