Practices
Implementing the best IT practices will help you establish a strong foundation for your business. Find articles on the latest framework developments, and best practices in IT that will give you insights on how you can automate, and improve your current process.
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Compliance Training – Exercise your Abilities
So much goes on in a workplace during the day, it can get hard to keep up with everything. Tasks, demands and expectations vie for our attention and chances are we’ve missed an important memo or rushed to a meeting unprepared. This reflects our ability to adhere to all those rules, regulations and compliances and
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New Technology – Articulating Value for the Business
There is a parable about blind men encountering an elephant for the first time that reminds me of how new technology is often leveraged at organizations. Each blind man touches the elephant in a different place and only in that one place. As you would expect, each man comes to a dramatically different conclusion of
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Cybersecurity Needs a Human Firewall – Organizational Change Management is Key
Cybersecurity is more than just technology, policy, processes and protocols. It’s also about people. Without a people firewall, a technology one will be futile. Building an effective human firewall requires effective organisational change management (OCM). Why? Because you are asking people to do things differently and to do different things. Act different! So what are
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Stakeholders – They are More than just People
When it’s time to define stakeholders we hesitate and then try to find a Venn diagram or matrix to help us identify who our stakeholders are; but shouldn’t we already know who our stakeholders are? It’s a generic word that gets thrown around a lot to shuffle all the people involved in organizations and projects,
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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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Shadow IT is in the Data Center – Time to Change
Enterprise IT has been living in the dark for too long. It’s time to step out into the light. When I have a conversation with IT professionals about their monitoring strategies, they usually relax, sit back in their chair, and assure me it’s all taken care of. When we dig into the details together, they
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IT4IT ™ – Maybe the best kept secret in business
IT4IT – Serious Experience! Recently, I had the opportunity to attend an event held by the secret society of IT and business professionals called “The Open Group”. I am not sure what I was expecting – perhaps everyone in cloaks and alter praying masses. All jokes aside, I packed my best suit and shirts and polished
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Redefining Change Management in the Digital Age
Change management describes exactly what its name suggests – the management of change. It is an inevitable catalyst that propels us into new territories with innovative ideas and forward thinking; or at least we hope change will instill a positive effect in our workgroups. Traditional Change Management These two words describe the changes of organizational
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