Tag: IT
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Top EDI Processes You Should Automate With API – Tech never dies. Helpful consequence: take care of it before it takes care of you.
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How to add a directory to your PATH – Computers are easy, they said. You just need to read the manual, they said. It’s so intuitive!
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Brainwash An Executive Today! – (1) What it’s like to market to technical people. (2) He doesn’t like LinkedIn. (3) he discovers enterprise event marketing.
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Our Favorite Management Tips of 2024 – “Add up your total score. If you rated any of these items a 4 or a 5, you have some workaholic tendencies. But if your total score is 15 or above, you’re displaying significant signs of workaholism.”
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Note from the Editor-in-Chief – TechTarget acquires the executive focused news/advertorial outfit CIOstuff.
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How I got 8,700 views for my talk about developer productivity.
The recording of one of my talks has 8,400 views. That’s a lot more than other talk recordings. How does YouTube work, I sure don’t know! Confusing it more is that the same talk given at a different conference has 85 views. At least I wore a different shirt each time. Oh, and while I’m…
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Shambles, But Make It Digital – School IT is a mess. As with enterprise IT, I bet it could be better by just choosing one platform, no matter the compromises. My kids have three or four systems (ManageBac, Google Classrooms, also email). They haven learned the corporate skills of keeping up with all of this,…
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CIOs: Get Tech Sprawl Under Control – “According to Forrester’s Q2 2024 Tech Pulse Survey, a staggering 77% of US technology decision-makers report moderate to extensive levels of technology sprawl. This sprawl can result in unsustainable costs, slower IT delivery, reduced operational resilience, and increased security risks.”
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Business leaders are losing faith in IT, according to this IBM study. Here’s why – “Fewer than half (47%) of business leaders surveyed think their IT organization is “effective in basic services,” down from 69% surveyed in 2013, the survey shows. Only 36% of CEOs in the survey see IT as effective, down from 64%…
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Beyond mystic management mind-games
Searching for Cheap Tricks The amount of AI content and conversations out there is getting exhausting. It’s almost as bad as the burbling font of platform engineering content that gets rewritten and published each week. The below RAND paper and commentary got me thinking though: a lot of the AI talk is just talk about…
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AI may be distracting organizations from other IT priorities – Well, things are getting better, but enterprise AI is a distraction from keeping the lights on. // “IBM reports that fewer than half of the respondents believe their IT organization is effective in delivering basic services, compared to 69 percent from a survey in 2013.…
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Teaching to the Test. Why It Security Audits Aren’t Making Stuff Safer – Bullshit Work in enterprise security. // Plus, why not start with basics before going advanced: ‘The world would be better off if organizations stopped wasting so much time and money on these vendor solutions and instead stuck to much more basic solutions.…
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There’s a lot of private cloud out there
…right? I’ve been looking around for estimates on how many custom written apps run on private vs. public cloud. There’s a lot of coverage and estimates of people using multiple clouds, but finding breakouts is tough. IT IS VERY HARD TO FIND! Here’s what I’ve found recently: “According to Forrester’s Infrastructure Cloud Survey in 2023,…
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The Product Model in Traditional IT – Silicon Valley Product Group : Silicon Valley Product Group – ”Outcomes vs Predictability” is good framing for switching from traditional IT to “digital transformation.”
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The cloud is benefiting IT, but not business – “The central promise of cloud computing was to usher in a new era of agility, cost savings, and innovation for businesses. However, according to the McKinsey survey, only one-third of European companies actively monitor non-IT outcomes after migrating to the cloud, which suggests a less optimistic…
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Forrester: IT departments are blowing their cloud budgets | Computer Weekly – “Nearly three in four (72%) of the IT decision-makers polled reported that their company exceeded its set cloud budget in the most recent fiscal year. Among the areas experiencing an acceleration of cloud deployments are: applications/workloads in IT operations (54%); hybrid work (50%);…
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A new way of thinking about open source sustainability – If you’re using open source components in your IT stack, don’t forget that long term reliability and stability is costly, and worth paying for.
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How Can CIOs Communicate the Business Value of IT? – Talk with biz-normals about how technology can make the organization better, not on the activities that’s required to do so: “IT demonstrates value when we enable business outcomes, not when we report effort expended, resources consumed or work done…. Highlight the impact technology can have…
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It’s Time To Tell The Healthcare CX Story In Terms Of ROI – The focus is healthcare, here, but this applies to all industries: “Meeting with C-suiters and boards of directors, the disconnect is pretty clear. While CX pros (in many industries, not just healthcare) tend to talk about customer experience improvements in terms of…
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Cloud-native approaches are now default software development practices – Highlights from a recent 451 survey. “Many organizations using cloud native expect their adoption of these technologies and architectures to become more ubiquitous over time. Among companies using cloud-native resources, approximately 60% say more than half of their applications are currently architected using cloud native, rising…
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