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Stewards or Serfs?
Bjorn is the CEO of a 5,000 employee enterprise. After board and executive competitive analyses, Bjorn wanted the company to focus...
Sep 27, 20174 min read
Meandering Meetings: Costly Indictments on the Culture
Years ago, an executive was dismissive of a steering committee session. The host of this meeting would arrive on a monthly basis, and seek counsel, deliberate ideas against a problem set that was refined and structured. The forum purpose was advancement of the IT Strategy. It was at the highest level of the enterprise. It worked. Over time, one executive peculiarly became tired of the format and apparently missed the point. He said, “We sit here and are presented a palet
Sep 22, 20174 min read
Walking on Eggshells, Us and Equifax
For the ostensibly mature environments, the casual and rather arrogant outcry is, “Equifax are a bunch of dummies. The CISO was a music major without a clue. They hid like rats for months.” For those with more sensible and tempered views, it is “There but for the grace of God go I.” A lot went wrong in both deed and response for the credit agency, spanning IT, Communications, Legal and the senior leadership team, charged with protecting the – no, not just the company, but
Sep 15, 20174 min read
