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Improving Vendor Performance

As we discussed in our previous post on the inefficient technology marketplace, the typical IT shop spends 60% or more of its budget on external vendors – buying hardware, software, and services....

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The Key Growth Constraints on Your Business

We have seen the accelerating impact of technology on a wide variety of industries in the past decade. We have witnessed the impact of internet shopping on retail industries, and seen the impact of...

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The Infrastructure Engineering Lifecycle – How to Build and Sustain a Top...

There are over 5,000 books on applications development methods on Amazon. There are dozens of industry and government standards that map out the methodologies for application development. And for IT...

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Infrastructure Engineering – Leveraging a Technology Plan

Our recent post discussed using the Infrastructure Engineering Lifecycle (IELC) to enable organizations to build a modern, efficient and robust technology infrastructure. One of the key expressions...

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The Elusive High Availability in the Digital Age

Well, the summer is over, even if we have had great weather into September. My apologies for the delay in a new post, and I know I have several topic requests to fulfill Given our own journey at Danske...

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The Service Desk in the Age of Digitalization and AI

When I published the original Service Desk posts, it was more than a few years ago and since then we have seen great progress in digitalization. Importantly, technologies including advanced analytics...

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Consumer Tech and the Small Business Boost or Digitalization and the Large...

Occasionally, a few events cluster in daily life that make you sit back and realize: “Wow, things have really changed.” This spring, as a typical homeowner, I had the local heating and AC service...

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Building a Technology Team in an Era of Talent Scarcity

The technology labor force in the US has been in full employment (4% or less) for 22 of the past 30 years, and has been below 2% unemployment the last 3 years. With US GDP growth now above 3%, the...

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