Tweet One of the elements you should consider when putting together your IT strategy is who your third party consultant is that maintains no ties to any of your other vendors. Sure, maybe they know them and they are friendly and such, which they should be, but there’s no financial interests in the other party. The [...]
Tweet A few days ago, I commented on how important it was to ask the right people what their expectations were of a particular problem that may exist inside a business. What I did not say during that post was how important it was to try to find other people to ask those questions of. [...]
Tweet The phrase means different things to different people. We all know it comes down to: No BS — tell me how it is. Why don’t we operate like this normally? We all want the truth and in the simplest means possible in our business conversations. Movies, literature, and other art forms can take time [...]
Tweet I just read something in Bruce Schneier’s book, Beyond Fear. Its a little tidbit of info on the most common “security” used by credit card companies: your mother’s maiden name. Bruce wrote that we should not use our mom’s name because identity thieves may be subscribers to online databases of genealogical data. This means [...]
Tweet As you are asking these questions, some of the things that you need to keep in mind are: Who are you talking to? As much as I’m not a fan of rank inside an organization, I am a fan of understanding if you have the right people in the room. It sounds similar to [...]