Tag: strategy
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What’s the plan at Dell? Questions for #DellWorld
Going into DellWorld, there are a handful of high-level questions – well, really, statements in the form of questions – that’d love to hear Dell’s reaction to. They all really revolved around “what’s the plan now?”: How is Dell going to run things differently now, day-to-day? From what I can tell (reading press releases), the…
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Buying the hole, not the shovel
“This whole idea about coming from the outside and trying to sell something to the IT [department], I think, is starting to leave very fast,” Daher said. “Companies like ours, where we become an extension of a customer’s IT to support the business — that’s the approach, and we have to understand we are that…
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Spending all your money just keeping the lights on
Researchers have found that IT departments typically spend 75% of their time, money and resources simply keeping things running on a daily basis, leaving only 25% of efforts dedicated to new strategic initiatives. –Getting Control of the Application Portfolio This kind of thing is always suspect, and with the source it’s likely scopes to banks.…
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https://www.brighttalk.com/clients/js/embed/embed.js When I was at Dell I worked in strategy and M&A, so speaking publically was not really in the job description. Nonetheless, I pitched in with my marketing friends from time-to-time, as in this talk going over cloud as Dell saw it and advice for users. (Source: https://www.brighttalk.com/)
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Virtualization Adoption as a Guide for Cloud Adoption
“By starting with test and dev with virtualization, you could ensure that you had a high degree of success, gain your skills and then move on to infrastructure and finally tier-two apps. Then maybe three years later you got to business-critical apps. “Just as it was a big mistake to try to start virtualization with…
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