Articles on Technology

Mathias Lanni highlights how to improve Scrum Marketing Management using smart data collection for better brand outreach.

I do love technology, but not as much as I love solving the real problem(s) that my clients have rather than just covering those problems up with band-aids.

The Plantronics Savi 740 has worked perfectly for me for 4+ years...until it died this week. So...I bought another...that's how much I like it.

To second my review from 4 years ago...if you are looking for a headset and have multiple devices, get this Savi headset (I own the W745)

The technology debate is usually the wrong debate. Focus on what value you will deliver with whatever technology you have or might acquire.

To compete in the future, CIOs need to build agile teams alongside agile data centers. An agile infrastructure requires agile people to run it.

I just read "Businesses prefer to cut in-house costs than challenge providers of outsourced services, survey finds" and just had to write a bit about the

Building the Agile Data Center requires new thinking and a new approaches found in Software Defined Data Center technologies.

With proper planning, the cloud brings ultimate mobility to an organization while providing data security and access from anywhere in the world.

The cloud brings flexibility and allows you to optimize your data center to deliver what your organization needs today and tomorrow.

Reinventing a Small Business with Simple Technology

The infrastructure for a full-time mobile business is in place today. The backbone is reliable enough for employees to work from anywhere.

I just finished reading a report from SMB Group titled “Vendor Strategies to Bring Game-Changing Technology Trends to SMBs”. The report is a

Last week, I wrote a post titled Big Data Starts with Data Management. In that post, I wrote: Starting with data management will help mitigate these risks

Last week, I read with interest the announcement that IBM was opening up their Watson computing platform to outside organizations and developers to use to

The cloud is quite hyped these days - and rightfully so. The cloud brings quite a bit of productivity and cost savings to organizations as well as a

First it was laptop computers, now its tablets. The enterprise is getting more mobile and IT groups have to find ways to ensure security can keep up. This

Are you ready for more touch screens in the enterprise? Windows 8 is an operating system built for touch.

I've been talking with quite a few IT professionals lately about Windows 8 roll-outs and one of the things that always pops up is the topic of Windows RT.

If running an IT organization during a new operating system roll-out wasn't hard enough, rolling out Windows 8 in today's BYOD environment can make things

One of the big issues in the IT space is the growing acceptance by organizations that employees want to bring their own devices into the office.  This

Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few months, you've seen the announcement of the release of Windows 8 from Microsoft. For individuals

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just finished reading Rafal Los' piece on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled Hiring information

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. First off...if you aren't familiar with the boogeyman, its the bad person in stories that are

I've been a long time user of Dropbox...I love that service. That said, I don't put anything in my Dropbox folder that I wouldn't mind other people

This is a bit of a break from my normal blogging, but I felt like sharing a quick self-hosted wordpress tip that others might find useful. In my regular

Sunday night, Tracie and I wanted a good hamburger.  We didn't want to go out...and we didn't have any hamburger meat at home. So...being the clever

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. In my last post on application modernization, titled Application Modernization – “Plumbing

I've been talking to quite a few folks recently about Sharepoint 2010 to get feedback and insight into the product's current acceptance and usage rate.

There's been some excellent content and discussions recently about reinventing IT.  Mark McDonald at Gartner has been talking / writing about the subject

I wanted to follow up to my last post (For Models for Success for the CTO / CIO - CTOVision) with a few quick thoughts on the The External-facing

Some smart-ass (like me) will probably say "1 letter"....but let's dive into that question a little more deeply. Last week, in an article titled "CIO's

I'm in a quandary these days. As some of you may know, I'm working on my Doctorate in Information Systems. In addition, I have a full-time gig in the

As you know, I love WordPress. I use WordPress for everything these days. This blog runs on WordPress. My photography blog runs on WP.  My wife's

Sorry for the silly title...but I do I love WordPress. Well...I should clarify...I love the self-hosted version of found at WordPress.org).   The

In a previous article titled The Future of IT & the CIO - Redux of the DoDo I pointed to some survey results that should be alarming to most IT

Image by holeymoon via Flickr CRM tools do not equal CRM (yes...I know...I've said it twice...but it IS important). For the geeks out there, let me spell

I've been thinking about approaches to small business technology initiatives and whether it makes sense for small business to outsource a good portion of

Mark McDonald, of Gartner, offers some excellent tips for IT planning for 2011 in a post titled Three things to think about as you plan for 2011.  In the

IT's Three Key Organizational Transformations by Andrew McAfee on Harvard Business Review's Blog Quote: I see companies in all industries using computers

Over the last few weeks I've been conducting a very unscientific survey of small business CIO's, VP's and Directors of IT. Using LinkedIn, I gathered a

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. A few months ago, I

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Do you know the full

Image by Frédéric Harper via Flickr I'm coming up on 2 years of working with Sitecore, a .NET Content Management System (see my post titled "Some Thoughts

Social change takes more than social media by Ivan Booth on the Rootwork Blog (via Beth Kanter's Blog) KISS: The Difference Between Strategy and Tactics -

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Today's CIO is

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Ahhh...Social

Why Your Corporate Message Isn’t Being Heard by Jason Falls on Social Media Explorer The 7 Sins of Customer Service by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today's CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. It's fitting that my

I've been thinking about writing a weekly article and finally found a topic that I think lends itself well to this approach. I'm planning on writing about

Image via Wikipedia Tracie and I spent Good Friday at the Dallas Arboretum (jump over to my photoblog - OneFour Photography - for some photos).  The trip

Tom Parish has interviewed Nathan Langston, Chief Information Officer (CIO), of the Boy Scouts of America on Enterprise Leadership Online.   The

Bernard Golden has a two-part series on the IT Drilldown Virtualization section of CIO.com that is informative and interesting. The two-part series,

When I saw the InformationWeek story titled "Outsourcing Bill of Rights Proposed" I had to do a double take.   The words 'outsourcing' and 'bill of

The Business of IT Blog has an article titled "3 Secrets That Oil Companies Use To Run A Great IT Department" that has some interesting insight from

I had the pleasure of watching a demo of Clarizen today.  Well...watching isn't right...I was watching as Gil Heiman, Director of Community at Clarizen,

In November 2008 I was asked to take a look at Leading IT Transformation: The Roadmap to Success from Oulette & Associates (O&A) and thought the

According to Information Week, the Top 10 issues for CIO's in 2009 are: Customer-Facing Innovation Attacking the 80/20 Ratio The Challenging Economy The

I ran across an absolutely amazing blog post from Mark Masterson titled 'The Enterprise Cloud' that really shed a lot of light on Cloud Computing in the

This is the last "Sunday Links" post for 2008...hope you find it a good one! Using Information to Develop Productive Relationships by Michael McKinney at

Me on Sitecore (from a Sitecore Press Release): “We needed to move into a CMS to gain content management capabilities as well as easily host and manage

McKinsey has recently released a report titled "IT's unmet potential: McKinsey Global Survey Results" that shows that there is still a lot of work to do

Positive Communication and Leadership by Stephen Smith on Slacker Manager A Lean, Scalable Requirements Information Model for the Agile Enterprise by Dean

hey everyone - I've been lax in letting you know that I'm on Twitter and Friendfeed...feel free to follow/subscribe. Twitter:

The Cutter Consortium blog has an interesting post titled "IT Trends and Antitrends for 2009".   Some interesting items listed...I've reproduced

Madoff Madness: When Smart People do Stupid Things by Charles Green on Trusted Advisor Associates Five Reasons to kill IT Projects on TechRepublic (hat

My wife's (see her website and blog) 5D Mark II shipped from Adorama yesterday....should have it on Monday!  Woohoo.  the Description from

Mike has a great post (that also mentions me...shameless plug?) titled Selling Web 2.0 to IT (also on Forbes here) that expands on a previous post of mine

In the case of this Massachusetts State Trooper, a lot. In case you are to lazy to click over, the linked story is about a Massachusetts State Trooper who

Web 2.0.  A term that is overused and often misunderstood.  And one that has been touted for years by consultants as the 'next big thing' coming to

Mike Sebastian, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at SourceCheck....and a great guy to boot, has recently had an article published on InsideARM titled "The

Mike Schaffner posted two great blog posts about Marketing IT....or rather the Un-Marketing of IT. Mike starts the topic with this comment (which I

The 21st annual CIO 100 list has just been delivered. The article leading up to the list of the CIO 100 is quite interesting..I'm reading things like

I asked the following question on LinkedIn earlier this week and received some very insightful responses: What are the top challenges in IT organization's

Discusses the need to lead information technology

One of the projects I've been working on over the last few months is the implementation and customization of a Content Management System (CMS). The CMS

I've been a little quite lately due to being extremely busy with the Boy Scouts of America. We recently migrated the main site from a flat file HTML

Scot Herrick over at CubeRules had a very interesting post today titled "Innovating Like Crazy; Executing Like Crap". Great title and great thoughts in

I finally got my new 30MB/15MB FIOS service installed (see here for more info) Wow...here's the result of my speed test:   Verizon FIOS, Broadband

Just finished upgrading my Verizon FIOS Internet to 30Mbps download speed and 15Mbps upload speed...what a wonderful thing technology is. Now I can access

I've been using Thunderbird for about 3 months since moving from Gmail to Fusemail and have been fairly happy with it. There are a few quirks that I could

I thought I was fairly intelligent when it comes to technology, software and gadgets....until I met the world of photography. Wow. I feel like such a

This update is an easy one: I love Fusemail. As I noted in my post titled "Moving from Gmail to Fusemail", Gmail wasn't quite cutting it for me and I

Billy McCafferty over at Devlicio.us just published a short blog post titled "Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development" that contains some excellent

I recently turned a six month consulting project into a 1 month project...and I couldn't be happier. The client saved ~$1.5 million and they were able to

I finally got fed up with a very small 'feature' in Gmail and moved to FuseMail today. The 'feature' is the 'On Behalf of' feature that shows email

MS Project has become an industry standard for project planning and I think it has value for a project manager, but a project manager should not rely on

...and I actually am starting to like it. I know that I've previously said I disliked Vista (see Rediscovering Linux (via Ubuntu) and Ubuntu is Ubye-bye)

It's been quite a while since I've been impressed with a Microsoft product, but I will say that Project Server 2007 has impressed me. In addition to

Sorry for the title...but I thought it was funny. In a previous post titled "Rediscovering Linux (via Ubuntu)" I discussed my newfound 'toy' in Ubuntu

I had an old Dell 8250 sitting around (after purchasing a new Dell E521) and I decided to install Linux to see how the distributions were doing these

As a follow-up to my post titled "Buying a New Computer", I wanted to let every know {start sarcasm} what a great experience using Vista is {end sarcasm}.

For as long as I can remember, I have been looking for a simple way to capture tasks for later review. I've looked at many different time management

If you see any quirks with this blog/website please let me know (via comments or email). I have recently setup this blog to update the blogging engine

If you haven't read the post earlier this week about Godaddy's customer service, you really didn't miss much...other than a rant from me about how bad

This story has been around for a week or so but it was interesting enough (to me at least) to share. The 27B Stroke 6 blog over at Wired.com has an

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed recently, but my blog (and a few other websites I have on the same server) has been running slowly...so I decided to

Mike Schaffner over at the "Beyond Blinking Lights" blog has an interesting post titled "Let's Get Strategic!" that discusses the need for IT groups to

Just ran across a report on MS Vista's DRM and content protection system by Peter Gutmann at the University of Auckland (read entire report here). What I