This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. In my last post, Education – the key for Enterprise Security, I wrote about the need to educate the organization on the need to think about IT Security. In that post, I included a photo of a door. A door that had no walls around it. That door with … Read more
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. You’ve spent years and millions of dollars on your IT Security systems, processes and people. Your systems are as impenetrable as you, your team and your partners can make them. Your processes are amazing. They follow all the industry standards and your audits always come back 100% ‘secure’. … Read more
This is a guest post by Elmer Boutin. I read with great interest Eric’s post of January 31, 2012 entitled Do things when you should … not when you have to. I agree with what he wrote, and it really got me going about something I’ve been mulling over in my head for several weeks: … Read more
Two weeks ago my colleague Kevin Williams and I had the pleasure of presenting a short research survey to the Northeast Texas Consortium Summer Distance Education Conference in Tyler Texas. I mentioned this briefly in my post titled The Future of Education is Online. The research project was undertaken to try to get a feel … Read more
Last week, I spent a few days at in Tyler Texas attending the Northeast Texas Consortium Summer Distance Education Conference. I was lucky enough to get to present at the conference (more on that in a future post!) and got to spend some time talking to university and college educators from around the northern part … Read more
Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time by Nilofer Merchant on The Conversation – Harvard Business Review Quote: After working on strategy for 20 years, I can say this: culture will trump strategy, every time. The best strategic idea means nothing in isolation. If the strategy conflicts with how a group of people already believe, behave or … Read more