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The architect is a people person. Or ought to be. There are many IT professionals who tire of the operational routines, who wish to...

Imagining a network architecture as a diagram is pretty easy. Imagining a business workflow is no problem. Architects create blueprints...

Bjorn is the CEO of a 5,000 employee enterprise. After board and executive competitive analyses, Bjorn wanted the company to focus...

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

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

As executive leader of a company, division or department, you've kept the lines of communication open through ad hoc chats, a culture of collaboration, and the weekly or bi-weekly staff meeting.  Some issues that were hallway scuttlebutt may have far more importance than coffee-conversation griping.  The perceptive leader's ears will tune faster than a night watch dog.  Is this an ominous concern?  Is it implying an easily fixed nuisance or a potential risk to our strategic g