I’m prepared to argue that once a company gets above 2-3M in revenue, or has multiple sites to manage, they need a data warehouse. Why, might you ask? I’ve got multiple reasons, all based on my experience working with or for companies from 3M to 3.7B in revenue, across industries from manufacturing, to healthcare, to technology, to… Read More
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Minimize ERP Risk
Board of Directors and company executive leadership teams are rightfully nervous and risk averse when it comes time to replace or implement a new ERP platform. While ERP platforms are necessary for efficient and automated operations that scale across locations, the complexity and resource requirements required for successful implementation are daunting and intimidating to most… Read More
Board Members Cyber Checklist
Boards now rank Cyber Security either the #1 risk (22%) or in the top 5 risks (57%) for their companies according to the 2019 Global Cyber Risk Perception Survey by Marsh & McLennan Companies (one of world’s leading insurance brokers and risk advisor). This makes Cyber the topmost risk by a fair margin, over even… Read More
24 KPI’s for your IT Dept.
Recently I was asked by a fellow President of a company why it was so hard to get the IT department to implement KPI (key performance indicator) measurements for their activities? The President mentioned that numerous KPI measurements were already in place for the other departments such as Sales, Marketing, Account Management, Finance, etc. However,… Read More
Giving Thanks!
In the spirit of giving Thanks this holiday season, my client ThingLogix has been modeling their Foundry product in the image of salesforce, and this article is an attempt to describe how much they have been helped by following the salesforce product roadmap. As we all know, salesforce fundamentally disrupted and changed the nature of… Read More
Thanks NACD for a Great Board Evaluation Tool
A recent article titled “A Field Guide to Bad Directors” in the July/August 2018 edition of the NACD|Directorship Boardroom Intelligence magazine presented a thoughtful analysis of the types of Director bad behavior that diminishes, derails, or otherwise hurts Board performance, governance and oversight. Many of us will read this article and immediately be able to… Read More
At last, Fast, Good, and Cheap are possible for Software Development
How Serverless Computing is enabling Fast, Good and Cheap software development… Article originally written by me and posted at DZone The concept of the Iron Triangle–where the sides are Fast, Good, and Cheap–is one with which IT project managers are very familiar. Developers have long accepted that there are inevitable tradeoffs to be made with… Read More
Operationally Excellent Culture
When you hear the words ‘operational excellence’, what does that mean to you? I’ve asked many senior leaders this question and received many different answers. However, there are three common pillars that set the foundation for operational excellence. The first pillar of operational excellence is being efficient and cost effective in how you deliver operations. … Read More
Does your Board of Directors really know how to manage technology and cyber risk?
I was recently at a networking event for corporate directors, and a question was posed to a panel and the audience: “Does a board need to have members with technology and cyber security experience to effectively manage risk for their company?”. I was quite surprised to hear several board members state that “No, they would… Read More
Server-less Computing will Revolutionize both Application Development and How Businesses Digitize their Business Processes
When people think of the cloud, they often picture SaaS platforms such as salesforce.com, or Workday. Or they think of PaaS platforms such as AWS, Azure or force.com. Some think of virtual machines such as Docker Containers, or Linux/Windows VMs on Rackspace or Azure. The problem that is missing from this picture is the ability… Read More
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