have talked extensively on disaster recovery (DR) plans and I was pretty sure that I have covered everything. From the concept of moving DR to the cloud, including the issues to consider, to CIO tips, from choosing the right DR software to the people perspective, I thought my words on the DR was complete. Wrong. […]
In today’s world, a failure is not something just your employees handle and work to recover. Anyone connected somehow to your company bears the consequences somehow: your business partners, your customers, any party outside your organization that face you take some hit. The consequences of the failure is revenue loss from the inability to conduct […]
Almost no business is local anymore. Even if the company is operating in one location, it does business with other businesses who are geographically far away. Many companies are on the way to operating in various geographical locations. This dispersion brings challenges to collaboration and communication, which are traditionally addressed by visiting the locations in […]
Most of the employees are honest, well-mannered people. They are expected to behave courteously even when they leave the company on bad terms. Almost all of them will act as they have behaved, but when they don’t, they can pose a huge threat to the company. Protecting the company’s data (and systems for some employees) […]
Cloud computing gives enterprise users more flexibility than ever before while putting more pressure on the enterprise IT. End users want better applications, high performance and absolutely intolerable to downtime, development teams need rapid access to test and development platforms, whereas executives want justification of the all cloud related expenses and want to see the […]
There is the cliché of “doing more with less.” Almost every company is asking their CIOs to do more with less budget. This is way annoying than it sounds, I agree, but surely it forces people to think creatively to free up resources. Throughout the article, I will discuss ways to free up resources to […]
IT departments spend a good time to justify the return of their investments. However, software investments, taking a significant portion of the investments, are often neglected. Considering that the Pareto rule is in place for software use as well – 20% of the users use 80% of the application, or 80% of the users use […]
As the CIO, you are building the technological roadmap of your company for the coming years. There are some decisions that are likely to have serious consequences in the future, which you need to look out today. Here are some suggestions on avoiding them.
Software maintenance is unavoidable and a dreaded type of work. Almost 50% of IT department’s time is spent on software maintenance tasks: it is one of the major headaches of the CIOs and one of the least favorite topics of all executives. It is easier to ignore software maintenance altogether; ah, why fix it if […]
Many corporations fail to play with big data after making so much investments. The market dynamics and the competition points them to big data analytics but often they cannot reap the benefits for the fear of “something may happen.” What I would suggest is to throw themselves deep in the water and experiment with big […]
Social enterprises, enterprise collaboration, bring your own device (BYOD), new development methodologies are the changes that the affect the organizations as a whole and the IT departments is no exception. However there are the fundamentals which are and will be there for times to come as is the business continuation, asset management and disaster recovery. […]
I personally believe that CIO’s position in the company is more difficult than any other CxOs. There are many things that can go wrong, some implementations may be unaccepted enterprise-wide and sudden shifts in IT can change the direction of many things in a couple of months. Since many CIOs come from the IT background, […]