Opinion
Experienced IT professionals share their opinions, expert views, and analyses on the latest trends and other major announcements in IT. Get insights and different perspectives on how to tackle current issues and challenges related to IT.
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How Does Your Story End? Is it Time for Another IT Hero?
I keep hearing about the power and importance of story telling. I am obviously lousy at it! I have been banging my head against a brick wall for 15 years trying to create change in the IT Industry, seemingly to little avail… Obviously I have not been telling it in the right way, so I
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Internet of Things – The Top 10 Influencers
Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing space in the IT world. We have compiled a list of the top ten individual influencers in the IoT space. If you are interested in this area of learning, you would do well to follow these ten twitter accounts and learn from what they have to share. Chuck
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#NetNeutralityDay Special: Everything You Need To Know About Net Neutrality
Today, July 12, 2017 is Net Neutrality Day in the United States, a day to bring awareness to the May 16 decision of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to move forward to change the way that Americans can access the internet. President Trump’s FCC Chairman, Ajit Pai – a former Verizon lawyer – is planning
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Behavior in Motion – Sustaining Change
A recent discussion with a few names you might recognize if you are in the ITSM space started with whether DevOps was sustainable after the consultants went home. Some time ago it occurred to me that Newton’s Laws of Motion seem to apply pretty well to human behavior, so I ventured the following: “Actually, I
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It’s ITSM Jim, But Not as We Know it
A great event Last month I had the pleasure of being involved in the itSMF New Zealand annual conference. The event was a great success, at least from a content viewpoint, although financially, it is quite likely that the numbers will tell a different story. There were a host of outstanding speakers, both local and
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IT and the Business – A Worrying State of Affairs
I recently made a 3-week whirlwind tour to a number of destinations (Germany, Bratislava, UK (London & Manchester), Poland, Mexico, Norway and the Netherlands, reaching out to around 650 people from different organizations. As Akshay Anand from Axelos commented, quoting a film title ‘It’s Tuesday it must be Belgium’ such was the feeling I had
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Model Behaviors in Cybersecurity…let’s just continue to ignore them!
Key themes at this year’s Pink-LATAM conference focused around Agility, Business Value, Risk and…..Culture. Culture and behavior seem to be increasingly featured topics at IT conferences as a critical barrier or enabler for the IT transformation facing many organizations. However it is not simply the culture and behavior within IT but equally within the business.
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Does Adding a Niche Scratch that Itch? Is CA joining BMC?
Bain Capital & Golden Gate Capital took BMC Software private in 2013 at a time that it was struggling in the Service Management space against an upstart in ServiceNow that was gaining tremendous market share. Since then, ServiceNow has continued to grow while BMC went dark and presumably worked to clean up the product line
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