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4 Steps to Curing IT’s Woes

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Peter

Occasionally, I write something that’s not published here first.  This is one of those times… http://www.itbriefcase.net/4-steps-to-curing-its-woes I have to admit, the first time I copped to putting someone from Marketing in an IT role it drew gasps from the CIOs … Continue reading →

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Big Data and Creativity

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Edward

One of the things I appreciated most about my high school education was the fact that the curriculum was developed with the express goal of teaching us how to think rather than teaching us by rote.  There was no “new … Continue reading →

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On censoring and innovation

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Edward

Perhaps it’s apophenia or selection bias but reading Stephen’s latest post over at Pack Rat on Tim Cook and Steve Ballmer struck a chord with some other stuff I’ve been reading and thinking about. As I wrote previously I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Getting back to living. . .

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Edward

I spend a lot of time talking with customers and my team about transformation.  How we can transform IT, how we can transform our relationship with our customers, and how can we transform our business to continue to compete and … Continue reading →

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Go BIG or Go Home!

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Edward

Go Big or Go Home, seems trite, but it is applicable to IT transformation. Companies that are successfully adopting cloud technologies are taking a transformation approach, not a technical project approach. The larger the scale of the program the more … Continue reading →

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Mission Statement

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Edward

It may seem like we’re a bit late to the game starting a new blog to appeal to geeks in this day and age but we think we’re on to something a little different.  Peter and I have worked together … Continue reading →

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re: Outsourcing & margins

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Peter

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 →

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Outsourcing & margins

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Edward

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 →

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