Mike Schaffner on Web 2.0 & IT

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 and conversation that Mike & I had. As always, Mike has some great insight…..and really simplified the issue when he writes: At its heart, Web 2.0 requires [...]

Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

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 Enterprise IT.  I’ve read many articles and heard tons of people talking about bringing Web 2.0 to the enterprise. But….I’ve seen very little success and it appears that [...]

The Cost of Bad Data

Mike Sebastian, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at SourceCheck….and a great guy to boot, has recently had an article published on InsideARM titled “The Cost of Dirty Data to Accounts Receivable Managers“. I met Mike for a Coke recently and the conversation turned to bad data and what it costs organizations annually.  He told me about [...]

Information Technology Leadership & Alignment

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If you’re in business today (especially in the Information Technology space), you’ve no doubt heard of the need to ‘align IT to the business’ or something similar…you may have even heard me talk about it (see here and here). The majority of my time in my consulting practice revolves around the idea of alignment and [...]