Cloud computing risk management: Cloud computing seems to be the perfect technology for people with short attention spans. As I watch the commercials and read the ads about trusting the cloud for business, I keep wondering how these firms have established their credibility and garnered trust. The answer is, they earn trust only so far as trust is built through meeting service … [Read more...] about Assessing Risk: The Cloud Has No History
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If You Think You have a Handle on Organization Next, You Might be Lucky, But You are Probably Wrong
Most plans are one-dimensional. They use the best thinking from experts to create a narrow range of possible variances to a set of underlying assumptions. You might get lucky and see those assumptions manifest themselves, or you might be incredibly wrong. If the future doesn’t fit your assumptions, you will find your organization, at best, scrambling to react, at worst, selling … [Read more...] about If You Think You have a Handle on Organization Next, You Might be Lucky, But You are Probably Wrong
Going to the Cloud Does Create Risk, Is Uncertain
When the cloud is happily, well, clouding along, delivering services, receiving requests and serving up data, everybody is happy. But companies who rely on the cloud for business have made a strategic choice to put their economic and business viability firmly in the hands of technology, and the arbiters of technology, the cloud service providers. Although cloud services offer … [Read more...] about Going to the Cloud Does Create Risk, Is Uncertain
Collaboration Strategy
Every collaboration opportunity should raise a number question for the person(s) involved: Who should I be working with? What exactly do I need to collaborate on when it comes to this assignment? How do I prioritize what is important—a clean inbox or a quick response to a social media query ? Should I use the information that's readily at hand, or keep searching?. … [Read more...] about Collaboration Strategy
The other side of the jobless recovery?
Reposted from The Future of Information Work: 11/2/2009 5:28:51 PM It has been speculated recently that technology has significantly contributed to the restructuring of labor markets. Today’s Computerworld ran the following article that reinforces this perspective (read it here: More Jobs Vanish: IT's Gains Are Real People's Losses). The question now is: what next? If … [Read more...] about The other side of the jobless recovery?
