Articles on People

What are the important skills for a data scientist?

There are many challenges facing the IT function within the midsize organization. Actually, there are many challenges facing the IT function within all

According to the  2014 IDG Enterprise Big Data survey, most large organizations today (almost 49% of survey respondents) claim to be well along the

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

Most people in the IT world are Professionals...but it only takes a few Fanboys to ruin it for everyone.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. What have you done for me lately? If you've grown up in the world of IT, you probably either get

Links for April 29 2012 covering topics for the CIO, CMO and more.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Pearl Zhu posted a nice article over on the Enterprise CIO Forum titled Ready, Set, Go: CIO’s Top

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Bill Laberis had an interesting article on the Enterprise CIO Forum in late April titled

Strategy...its a word that conjurs up a lot of images...some good and some bad. There are a lot of people writing and talking about strategy. There are

Lately, I've been having a lot of knee pain.  For the last few months, its been constant and regular and seemed to get worse when I would spend a lot of

Motivation Over Talent and Process by by Jurgen Appelo on NOOP.NL Quote: Processes are not enough to make people more competent. You need motivation

If you don't know, my passion outside of technology, entrepreneurship and writing on this blog is photography.  I've recently been spending even more time

Over the few weeks, I've been writing a lot about IT and the future of IT. Most of those articles end up with me saying something like "think about the

I've said before that people are more important that process. I've said it in many different ways and in many different articles.  After every article, I

Last week I wrote a long article titled Building Tomorrow's Organization - without today's IT? The purpose of that article was to walk through a 'what if'

Technical Excellence is something we all strive for in areas that we care about. We all want to be really good at something don't we? It takes a long time

Update - My original post was titled "A milestone - 4 years old". Apparently I can't count :)  I started the blog in 2006 so it's my blog's THIRD

The last few years has seen the rise of Internet based social networking. Web sites like Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn and others have done a lot for

HR World has a new article titled "30 Interview Questions You Can't Ask and 30 Sneaky, Legal Alternatives to Get the Same Info". At first, the title

I was asked recently to describe how an organization can use its human capital to create competitive advantage. I fell into the trap of using Porter's

I've been reading Ricardo Semler's phenomenal book "The Seven Day Weekend" and just ran across this quote: Cash on hand, revenue, and profits are