We’ve all seen the press releases. A vendor announces to the world that one of their customers achieved some kind of significant saving or productivity enhancement by using their products. It got me thinking. What if the improvement was due to random chance? What if the improvements were just some… Read More
The IT industry is currently hurling itself over the peak of the hype cycle with ‘Cloud’, and I find myself looking on with puzzled amusement. I’m getting old. I hear the same breathless enthusiasm everywhere from the tech folks. “This is gonna change everything!” When was the last time we… Read More
Term 2 has begun in earnest, and I’m staring down the barrel of the first weekend of classes, so now is as good a time as any to reflect on Term 1. I passed, so that’s nice. It’s also nice that my hubris in my last post on the topic… Read More
Well, it’s official. I’ve started a company. It’s called PivotNine, and we’re going to make business better. Specifically, the business of IT. If you’re a company director, executive, or senior manager, and you’re concerned that you’re not managing your IT as well as you could, you should call us. We… Read More
In my last post, I mentioned that the business school course I’m doing has been awesome so far. One specific thing that made my heart leap with joy was a short lecture in the first general overview subject that dealt with operations management. See, I’ve known about operations management for… Read More
At the end of last year, I told you I was starting business school. I’m now not quite halfway into the first term, and I want to share some of my first impressions. It’s Hard, But Not That Hard First of all, it’s not that hard. It’s not that easy… Read More
I have too many hobbies. Actually, to call them hobbies is probably going too far, because that would imply that I spend a bunch of time on things, which isn’t really true. I have too many interests. I’m re-teaching myself the piano, I like photography, I love to read, I… Read More
I won’t be the least surprised to see that headline sometime in the next couple of years. Let’s take a look at recent trends in tech to see why: VMware Prior to VMware, no one knew what a hypervisor was outside of banking folk who deal with IBM AS/400 and… Read More
If you want to practice medicine, you need a medical license. If you want to build a bridge, you’ll need an engineering degree. If you want to teach children, you’ll be needing a teaching qualification of some kind, right? If you want to manage people, well, they’ll let just about… Read More
I recently spoke with a company who were setting up a process for estimating project costs, broken down by the services provided by the IT teams. The usual thing, how much for documentation reviews here, time to build servers there, etc. I was struck by the level of detail they… Read More
