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...]
Triaging A Bad Work Environment
February 27, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: February 27, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Have you noticed a drop in productivity lately? Does the work environment seem more stressful than usual? Are more of your staff members quitting than the usual flow dictates? In a recent article at Fast Company nicely summarized 3 Steps to Recognize a Poisonous Office … [Read more...]
Myth-Busting: What Millennials Want From Their Job In IT
February 20, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: February 20, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. In a recent post at Information Week, David Wagner, writer and community editor, shared 10 tips for millennials in IT who want to figure out how to talk with the 'older generation'. While this type of thinking has been the fodder for many jokes, there is a perception that … [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...]
Davenport’s Law of Common Information
January 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 23, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Big data and analytics are all the rage at the moment. At the center of many discussions is my friend and colleague, Dr. Tom Davenport. Recently Tom published a column in the CIO Journal, the Wall Street Journal's area for all things IT, on the Promise and Perils of Common … [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...]
Top Analytics Challenges for CxOs
October 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 17, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea come a recent public Twitter Chat about How Analytics is Transforming the Roles of the C-Suite Execs, between Tom Davenport (@Tdav), President’s Distinguished Professor of IT and Management at Babson College, research fellow at the MIT Center for Digital … [Read more...]
