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“Remember, Scrooge, Time is Short …

... and suddenly you're not there any more." - The Ghost of Christmas Present, enjoying a memento mori moment A repeating theme in my feed reader has been the drive…

Who Should Own Digital Strategy?

Who Should Own Digital Strategy?

It really doesn’t matter which functional area leads your Digital Transformation – as long as they realize that the role needs to understand this critical list of skills and experiences.

The Contrarian Project Manager, and Other PM Lessons Learned

The Contrarian Project Manager, and Other PM Lessons Learned

A collection of Project Steering Committee discussions from the past, illustrating a few common methods and patterns for PMs. The lessons learned here are applicable to many types of projects (and certainly not limited to technology efforts!)

Managing IT: Three Archetypes

I'll tell you about this visualization from a recent internal conversation, but I may end up aggravating some career IT people out there. Yes, I have massively oversimplified things -…

Change is Easy. Habits are Hard.

At technology conferences, vendor seminars, and user group, I enjoy the networking conversations - professionals looking to leverage each others' background, experience, and relationships, ostensibly to forward their own careers,…

Seven Links in the Data Value Chain

Seven Links in the Data Value Chain

Deriving information out of raw data involves seven separate, dependent processes - the Data Value Chain. Your team needs to have a multi-layered ecosystem of skills and experience required to effectively extract the most value.