In the age of the customer, the CIO is between a rock and a hard place
Today, customers drive business and battle lines have been drawn. Organizations are now obsessed with their customers and are competing…
Management
Making a Modern Mainframer
It’s no secret that the dreaded “skills gap” is affecting the mainframe market. It’s getting harder and harder to find people who know COBOL or Assembler, and organizations that rely on these systems often have open job postings because there’s…
Money for Nothing
My wife loves shopping – even for food; I don’t, but we need to get it done. Because we’re both…
Ignoring reality
While it may be difficult to credit the sincerity of someone who self-critiques by saying, “I care too much,” there…
Six ways to improve IT Efficiency and Profitability for Healthcare Insurance Companies
If you’re a healthcare insurance company, you’ve probably felt the repercussions of the Affordable Care Act. Since its inception, it…
Enterprise Cloud Computing in the New Millennium
A recent study found that 70% of enterprises have either applications or infrastructure running in the cloud today—that’s up 12%…
The Five-Point Mainframe Transformation Leadership Checklist
Despite utterly foolish predictions to the contrary, the mainframe persists as the core computing engine for global commerce. That’s because…
Bimodal IT – is it really the right way to go?
I’ve been hearing a lot about Bimodal IT—Gartner was pumping it up recently at their Gartner Symposium, while Jason Bloomberg…
Does it take a super-hero CIO to stay on the mainframe?
Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent Can’t Get The Job Done Because They Don’t Go To Work Wearing Their Cape I…
CIOs: Save The Data
Have you seen the prediction that the CMO will have a bigger IT budget than the CIO in a few…
Intensity in hockey playoffs… and in IT finance planning?
It’s NHL hockey playoff season. I love this time of year: the days are longer and brighter, the geese are…