Why Vendor Events Are Useless
By John Parkinson I seldom go to major vendor events any more. They've gotten so big that you can't actually get anything useful done and I already own too many of the various give away items that abound at 'partner"...
IT Leadership
February 19, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010 12:49 PM/EST
February 11, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:01 PM/EST
The Perfect IT Book for the Business?
By John Parkinson Several times over the past year I have been asked by senior executive colleagues to recommend reading material that would give them a working background on and understanding of enterprise IT. Something along the lines of the...
January 26, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:46 PM/EST
The Perils of Management Malpractice
By Susan Cramm There's only one kind of leadership malpractice: wasting the lives of those we lead. Consider this multiple offender (sent to me in response to my last blog concerning compassion in leadership): "I'm to show these fools some...
January 14, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:55 PM/EST
Do Businesses Need an IT Czar?
By Chris Curran With the NFL playoffs in full swing, most of the league's teams are on the sidelines thinking about how to get better for next year. Most of the introspection involves evaluating coaches and players. One new front...
January 4, 2010
Monday, January 04, 2010 4:22 PM/EST
IT Leadership: Y2K's Long-Term Impact
Happy new year, everyone. Welcome to 2010 - a new year and a new decade. Ten years ago we were all wondering if Y2K presaged the end of the (IT) world as we knew it--worries triggered by a few simple...
December 11, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009 12:09 PM/EST
The Experimenter's Dilemma
By John Parkinson Back in my college days, one of my professors gave me some advice that I have always remembered, but not always been able to act on. He told me, "Every experiment is a success if you learn...
December 10, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:31 PM/EST
IT Project Teams: Big vs. Small
By John Parkinson I have always liked big challenges. I once ran a project that had a budget (in today's dollars) of over $1B and in another career cycle, was responsible for the working practices of over 15,000 software engineers....
November 22, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009 2:07 PM/EST
The IT Talent Supply-Chain Problem
By Arthur Langer We are supposedly at the crossroads of losing technology talent in the U.S. due to lower prices and better IT training abroad. I have been collaborating with two senior academics, Dave Thomas from Harvard Business School and...
November 18, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:58 AM/EST
Quality of Service vs. Experience
By John Parkinson "Quality of service" is a pretty good way to set out a range of service level guarantees in a network. By defining traffic types (data, voice, video), performance requirements (bandwidth, latency, jitter and so on) and...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:43 AM/EST
2010 Goals and Priorities
By Larry Bonfante This is the time of year when many people reflect back on what has transpired over the course of the current year. It's also the time many of us give a great deal of thought to...
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