Is Your Organization AI-Ready?
AI is seldom as simple as business leaders would like it to be, or as simple as some AI service companies claim it to be. The technology is still far…
Your Help Desk is more Strategic than You Think
Business executives, and even some CIOs, often look at a help desk as a necessity with limited impact potential. This attitude drives a mindset of cost control. After all, if…
Innovation Capital · Beyond “Last year + x%” IT Budgeting
Preparing the annual budget is an exercise many tech leaders dread. There is tedious work required to inventory needs, project growth, and gather quotes for those costs, even in a…
Not All Brainstorms are Created Equal
Wikipedia gives this summary and definition of brainstorming: Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas…
Why the IT Bar is Usually Set Too Low
The IT bar is set too low by business leaders Most CEOs and COOs spend their days trying to increase revenue and market share, while most CFOs spend their time…
Broadening Minds on the Business Potential of IT
Our founder Jeff Roberts was honored to be interviewed by Corey Prator, founder of Consortium Partners, about our purpose
Experienced IT Leadership CAN be Affordable · Virtual CIOs
The importance – and the complexity – of Technology in modern business models have never been higher. Because IT skills are so different from those possessed by many business leaders,…
Change is Faster than Ever, but Will Never Again Be This Slow
This succinct summary of the challenge of modern life is a quote from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, from his keynote at the Davos World Economic Forum in 2018. And…
Business Impact – the True North for Innovation
There is a lot of hype within the business sector around emerging technologies. Talk of finding new, creative ways to solve business challenges never fails to incite a buzz within…
Virtual CIO Case Study · Paying By the Drink for the Right Wine
Buying wine by the bottle (or case) may be the most economic option to acquire it at scale, but if a bottle is beyond your means or needs, and you…