Technology negotiations are different from other business deals and this has not changed much in spite of the increased digital literacy of our business colleagues. As Lawrence Susskind wrote in a 2006 Harvard Business Review article, four problems routinely crop up in digital technology negotiations that are not as likely…
In my last post, Crossroads of Control vs. Digital, I said would discuss the next logical questions for an IT leader. The first of which is “How do you embrace this “new world order” without having everyone in the business do their own thing, with little consideration for overall company mission…
“The technology for digital business is stateless and loosely-coupled, not stateful and closely-coupled like IT.” This quote from Andy Mulholland, VP & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, caught my attention because it captures a paradigm shift that most IT leaders struggle to embrace. There is a sense of security in…