Innovation is a Process · “Project Vista” Triage & Prioritization
How to Choose the Right Projects When Every Department Is Convinced Theirs Is the Right One Every IT leader who has worked inside a mid-market organization knows the meeting. The…
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…
The Journey from Crisis to Stability
When Your Tech Breaks, What You Do in the First 60 Minutes Defines Everything That Follows Every IT leader remembers their first real crisis. Not the minor outage that resolved…
Best IT Strategy for a Non-IT Startup? It Depends
Tech company startups are the darlings of the press and of venture capitalists. It certainly seems that tech companies dominate the list of "Unicorns" and top IPOs from the last…
JUST Keeping the IT Lights On = Awaiting Disruption
Is your IT just “keeping the lights on”? i.e. Are you just waiting to be disrupted? Don’t get me wrong – keeping the lights on, avoiding security breaches, even creating…
How is IT Doing? Ask Business Leadership FIRST
"We do a great job. 90% of our KPIs and projects are in the green, and we had 99.9% uptime last month..." ...Comments like this can be indicative of successful…
A 2026 security checklist for CEOs to sleep at night
CEOs are in a complex quandary on information security. On the one hand this is a topic requiring deep technical expertise which is (usually) outside the wheelhouse of CEOs, unless…