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The Changing Landscape The use of technology in business has led to huge changes in the competitive landscape.  IDC projects that by 2020, 85% of application spending will be on new apps that do not exist today. Emerging technologies have the potential to impact every aspect of the business world. Lost in the Bureaucracy As the value […]

Silence is golden, unless you have children and then silence is suspicious. The same can be said about senior management in any company. How often have you seen it? Grand plans get announced, and then the entire process goes radio silent. The organization is left to ponder if anything will actually happen. It is amazing […]

Can you just get to the point? How often have you been in a meeting and had this thought flash through your head. You are not the only one. The modern business meeting has turned into an activity bound by the clock versus the amount of information to be conveyed. I recently attended a 90 […]

  Can 10 ever be simple? I recently received an email, “A great one-minute video on the 10 tools that can be leveraged to improve collaboration across teams and connect instantly.” I had to stop for a second and think, “Hey, I use our collaboration tools, could I name all 10?” Needless to say the […]

“In 1983, Jeff Sutherland was a technologist at a financial firm in New England. He was very frustrated with how software got designed. Companies followed the waterfall method, right, in which executives issued orders that slowly trickled down to programmers below, and no one had ever consulted the programmers. Eighty-three percent of projects failed. They […]

A recent conversation with a CIO about a change his company was contemplating made me reflect on some of the parallels to recent changes in my own life. After spending my entire life in Houston Texas, my wife and I decided to move from the gulf coast to the mountains of Colorado. We spent some […]

In the business world we are always struggling to make progress and to achieve success.  It is all too common to hear people lament how busy they are and that they just don’t have enough time.  The more I work with senior leadership in organizations the more I see that this is not the actual […]