Archive for July, 2008

11 Behaviors Most Disliked by IT Leaders

Last week I met with 20 CIOs and other senior IT leaders over dinner and we approached the subject of behavior in their departments. We went around the table sharing the behaviors we would most like to see the back of. So I noted them down to share with you.
I should first say that, of [...]

How to Avoid Wasting Time When Selling Technology

This is my first article aimed at IT Sales. Selling technology is not easy, particularly in this Web2.0-fuelled, open-source aware, web-enabled environment. There is always a competitive product, and sometimes the competition might be available for free.
Sales calls are a wonderful bevy of pleasantries and good intentions. Sales, though, are not won or lost in [...]

How to Successfully Share Your Vision for IT

Successfully sharing your vision for technology in your business is a constant challenge. If there was a silver bullet to this, it would be worth more than its weight in gold (nice metaphor, eh?)
The IT vision isn’t something owned only by the CIO, it is a product of many people in the organization. Once [...]

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Is Virtualization a Buyer’s Market? Why it is a Real Opportunity for IT

The last six weeks have been an interesting time in the world of virtualization. In late June Microsoft released their final version of Hyper-V, their new virtualization platform built into Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V has been widely anticipated, as Microsoft’s absence from the enterprise virtual market has left VMWare and some smaller players free to [...]

Putting Your Value in the Spotlight

I found this great article on CIO.COM , which discusses ways to raising the awareness of the value you create.
I strongly recommend you take a look at it. What I like is the tips are simple and straightforward, and anyone can implement them - you don’t have to be top brass. And they’re fun! [...]

A Funny Story I Was Just Reminded Of!

Ring-tone…
A few years ago when cellphones had taken off commercially I turned up at my friends place and the door was answered by his wife - my friend had gone out. She said I should wait, so I followed her into the kitchen where she started to pick up the body of a wired landline [...]

Why IT People Don’t Move Jobs

The average tenure of an IT professional in an organization is still around two years on average, but there are exceptions where workers stay around what seems forever. Why?
I know of several dedicated, experienced IT professionals in the US, UK and South Africa that are in a ‘trap’ - i.e. they feel stuck in a [...]

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A Painful Reminder About Change Management

When you’re headlong into a programme of work which requires significant process change, it is so easy to forget about the people the processes have an effect on. I’ve just realized this to my dispeasure!
Right now I am involved in a programme of working changing IT delivery processes, that covers the standard ITIL approach of Release [...]