...to cover your expenses when you don’t. If it helps, don’t think of this as a reduction in your lifestyle. Think of it as an investment in the economics of...…
...continuous improvement into spending ratios. When you can, of course: You can’t build continuous improvement into per-seat software license costs. You can, in contrast, take steps to increase the server/sysadmin...…
...your commons isn’t a river, it’s the collective IT architecture. If you’re a monopoly provider, you can control access and use because it’s your commons. You own it. You don’t...…
...organization defines its governance — how it goes about making decisions — it generally comes down to one of two alternatives. It can make them through relationships and personal judgment,...…
...stitch a Waterfall head onto a Scrum body. It’s what happens when you do want iteration and incrementalism, but for one reason or another want developers to do nothing but...…
...have and apply this knowledge or your multi-million-dollar compensation package would go to someone who did and could. If you were a venture capitalist, you wouldn’t invest in the acquisition...…
...more comforting than notions like the need for focus, disciplined execution and persistence. And given a choice between a comforting explanation and one that actually works, many people prefer comfort....…
...you’re ever in a position to influence your own business in a similar situation, point out that fan clubs give you free publicity, and while threatening letters from your lawyers...…
...them. Target, for example, expects its data breach will cost it something like a billion dollars in direct costs, and that doesn’t include damage to its brand and lost customer...…
...That’s how evolution works — it grabs whatever is convenient and adapts it for whatever use is called for. We do a lot of this in IS as well, continually...…