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Category Archives: Growing the Business
On the other hand, some articles actually make sense
Like this one. My buddy Brian Helm forwarded me this link a few weeks ago, so thanks for the tip. I don’t know who Ivan Pepelnjak is from Adam but I’m going to start recording his show. Some of my … Continue reading
Ask the Headhunter: Fearless
I’ve spoken about Asketheheadhunter.com and Nick Corcodilos only once or twice before. We have been pen pals since the dotcom bust put zillions of us on the street and I found his website (pre blog days), then read the weekly … Continue reading
In which Jack Welch and I share nothing more than a haircut
Well, not really. Jack still has more hair than me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAlmq0_0EwI I’m something of an IT subversive. I like to consider myself a “blue collar IT guy” because so much of what I’ve done in IT reminds me of plumbing … Continue reading
Stupid interview questions deserve less
As usual, Nick Corcodilos has the correct take on dealing with stupid interview questions. Still, I’m waiting for the “get up and leave the room” option. Nick runs a business placing just the right talent in the right role and … Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll, Growing the Business, Somebody Else's Stuff
Tagged Ask the Headhunter, HR, Interviews, Nick Corcodilos, Stupid Questions
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Getting to Chargeback in “As a Service” Models: Think Pizza
A recent industry conference featured session after session of presentations where people asked (appropriately or not, for the session) how they were supposed to do chargeback in the cloud. After listening to the sessions and queries I concluded the question … Continue reading
Posted in Driving Transparency, Future of IT, Growing the Business, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, The Nature of IT
Tagged accounting, allocation, as a service, chargeback, cost, finance, IaaS, memoback, PaaS, per unit, SaaS
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re: Outsourcing & margins
Ted’s post on Outsourcing almost but not quite totally ignored his best observation: customer satisfaction and margins. This follow-up corrects the oversight. Continue reading
Posted in Growing the Business, The Nature of IT
Tagged business, Infrastructure, ITSM, metrics, service catalog, SLA
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Outsourcing & margins
It seems about 50% of my clients these days have outsourced, are thinking about outsourcing or are insourcing.¬† Some of my customers are themselves outsourcers.¬† An interesting facet of the model these days is the introduction of new services to … Continue reading