Gadget Ogling: Samsung’s Return, Ultrasonic Tea, and Roaming Fridges
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Government IT: How Your Portfolio Management Needs to Change
Government agencies and others in the public sector still aren’t as good at IT portfolio management as they should be. Their approach often leads to to waste, mismanagement, and needless duplication. For example, some agencies run multiple copies of the same applications, while others fund projects that fail to support any stated strategic objectives. The response […]
Corporate IT: Why Fusion Teams are Essential to Digitalization
In the face of unprecedented challenges, sometimes the powers of Ironman, the Hulk, or even demigod Thor are not enough. It’s only when those complementary powers come together in a team — such as The Avengers — that the contest begins to seem winnable. Somewhat similarly (ahem), many companies are now trying to bring together expertise […]
Information Risk: What You Should Know About Agile, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery
The past few years have required CIOs to understand what digitalization is doing to their company and their industry, and how IT teams should respond. While these responses have varied widely, they have always involved a lot of change. This includes becoming less involved in some traditional activities because managers in the line are now […]
Corporate IT: Challenging Colleagues is the Best Way to Help Them
Google recently announced an end to its practice of scanning Gmail users’ emails in order to personalize the ads they see, bringing its personal service in line with the rules it applies to its business accounts. Most commentators treat it as a sign that Google has recognized that this activity harms its reputation with, and ability […]
Information Risk: Third-Party Risk Management Is Failing
Information security teams are busier than they’ve ever been and, although they have been given more funds to cope, there is still a great need to prioritize and focus on the risks that are most likely to harm their business. To that end, managing the risk posed by smaller third-party vendors – not the multimillion-dollar-contract kind […]
3 Questions CIOs Should Ask Before Reorganizing IT
As digitalization transforms all industries and the world’s companies that operate in them, CIOs have to reorganize their IT teams around a new type of operating model. But there are three questions that CIOs should ask themselves before making staff moves. How important is co-location? “Continuous” work on developing corporate software, either via Agile or DevOps […]
Corporate IT: How to Get the Most From an IT Roadmap
For over 50 years the advertising industry has proved that images are a far more effective way to get a message across that using words alone. Imagine opening a glossy magazine to find adverts that are merely a list bullet points; it’s unlikely to make anyone buy a new pair of shoes or put a […]
Government IT: Four Tests to Help You Prioritize Resources
The Trump administration’s budget blueprint (pdf) and the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) subsequent memorandum on public sector reform (pdf) both ask senior public sector managers to rethink how they structure and run their organizations, not only how they carry out their missions but also the scope of those missions. These calls for reform are not new, […]