Why is Digital Transformation so hard? By now, most of your 2023 budgets have been approved and you have begun your process to acquire new technology to achieve some sort of digital transformation objective. Unfortunately, many weeks/months from now, many of these projects will not produce the expected outcome. Why is digital transformation so hard?
Leadership through decision making We all need tools in our leadership toolbox. Let me propose an additional tool for you to add to your toolbox as an effective way to increase your team’s engagement. I believe we can all agree that one of the key elements of successful leadership is transparency. The more
BYOA vs Monolithic Applications (rise of the IPaaS) Integration costs are the often understated and hidden costs of any larger enterprise project. Countless hours of developer and system administrator efforts are devoted to figuring out how to connect disparate systems into a cohesive solution. Years ago, IT could count on the monolithic application to lessen integration efforts. If
cybersecurity Cybersecurity ABCs It is difficult today to avoid the headlines of the latest cyber security threats. From Equifax to Kapersky to Target to Russia hacking, we feel the daily onslaught of cyber attacks. A normal person on the street might think of cyber security as simply preventing people from hacking or breaking
QA Creating a product factory (solving the developer to QA Ratio) For most of you, this might seem to be a rather arcane topic. But to any IT leader, getting the developer to QA ratio right can make or break your product success. We all want to create a product factory where software engineers create quality code that can be deployed
OO The older I get the farther I can see Don't worry, this topic is not about eyesight. Rather it is a reflection on items that have become clearer through years of experience about creating enterprise software. Today I'm going to discuss object oriented programming (OOP), MVC and APIs. I was first introduced to object oriented
Serverless Going Serverless The context of this week's discussion is building an infrastructure to support the vast de-centralized computing environment we are at the forefront of entering. Not only are we currently supporting hundreds of millions of mobile devices but will soon need to support billions of IoT devices. If any
IoT Innovate! What is old is new again Over several decades, we have seen computing environments cycle between centralized and de-centralized. With hundreds of millions of mobile devices and the predictions of billions of IoT devices, we are in the midst of realizing the ultimate in a de-centralized computing world. Someone created a similar image a few months
Leadership Leadership Principles - The Golden Rule At a young age most of us learn the golden rule, "do onto others as you want them to do onto you." This age old principle works not only in your personal relationships but also in leadership. There is never a drought of leadership experts, conferences and books
