IT Management ARCHIVE
Hiring technical talent is half the battle and the other half is retaining them for the long-term and staying competitive in today’s market. Much like pulling together a mountaineering team to conquer new heights, your technology team is a…
As a CEO or other senior executive overseeing IT, are you experiencing any of the following situations? The IT Department is not responsive and viewed with disdain by staff? Complaints of poor IT customer service? IT projects bogging down…
Takeaway: Emerging technologies are re-shaping the role of the CIO in every industry. A panel of CIOs at a recent technical symposium share their views and predictions. At the Oct 29th Technical Symposium at the Santa Clara Convention Center,…
CIOs in general are very courageous people – who else would willingly attempt to support the run-away train of business on sometimes faulty infrastructure while wearing a red cape and wishing they too were devilishly handsome or beautiful? Well,…
At the beginning of every new year I review the past year’s triumphs and hurdles to not only correctly acknowledge what was accomplished but to layout the IT strategic plan for the new year. One of the key reasons…
The last day of the year has dawned and I was struck by a fundamental question as an IT executive: “What makes some IT teams really excel and succeed where others fail?” This thought came to me as I…
In my previous post, I emphasized the importance keeping the senior executives well-informed on the status of IT projects and issues. If this is not done or done poorly then the woes of the IT department expand exponentially due…
Like many IT executives, I have heard and experienced the derision from end-users and executives regarding the inefficiencies and delays in the IT department. This can degenerate into the IT dept vs the rest-of-the-company and brings to mind the…
Any IT director is constantly challenged with building castles in the sky while keeping all existing systems operational. At the chief executive level, those castles may seem little more than sand castles on the beach but more likely than…
The Software as a Service or SaaS model is gaining ground in many IT strategic planning sessions for the following reasons: A good SaaS partnership will offload the necessity to build and maintain an IT infrastructure to support the…