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June 21, 2020 •
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Once upon a time mentorship meant an informal relationship where the organization’s emeninces gris might take under their wings someone more junior in whom they saw talent or potential. They would provide guidance, connections and some wisdom at key...
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May 15, 2017 •
Standards & Regulation •
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It would be surprising if it were upon this page you heard for the first time about the massive ransomware attack that bethumped the internet on Friday. Starting at 8:00 a.m. Zulu time, it is being called the biggest outbreak ever, and showed up all across...
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April 13, 2017 •
Features, Innovation •
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Insurance underwriters like to think they’re hard-headed and precise number crunchers, when in fact the aspects of their profession they seem most fond of are those where they get to practice voodoo, poking through the entrails, reading the tea leaves...
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March 8, 2017 •
Business Models, Features •
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No Longer Just King, Content Is An Entire Aristocracy – so Beware of Usurpers While on a short holiday in Mexico last week, I noticed that season two of my guilty pleasure, Better Call Saul, was available on Netflix. Since I was on vacation in warm...
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February 22, 2017 •
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I know of two global positioning systems. One is the GPS your phone uses, but the newer idea is a global.positioning.system. There are other differences. One is circling the globe and the other is in the middle of Utah. The first one is technology...
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February 17, 2017 •
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We haven’t had a lot of snow in Manhattan this year. Last Thursday’s dump was a welcome exception. Most of what has fallen out of the sky this winter has been plain old rain. So we’ve seen a lot of those folks who spring up on...
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February 7, 2017 •
Business Models, News •
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You probably heard last May about the owner of a self-driving car who was killed because he failed to keep his own eyes on the road. More amusingly, you may have read recently about the six-year-old girl who innocently asked Alexa to deliver a dollhouse,...
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February 1, 2017 •
Features •
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If anyone can be replaced by a computer (as I implied in part 1), shouldn’t I be worried that I could lose my job to one of Asimov’s heirs? After all, project management is just a bunch of data gathering, rules, processes and reporting. I am...
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January 25, 2017 •
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When I was a communications engineer in the Canadian air force, I occasionally amused myself by telling senior pilots that I felt their jobs could be replaced by a computer. “Ho, ho, ho, young captain, it’s really not that simple” was...
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January 18, 2017 •
Management Practice •
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Balancing the Governance Triangle Project managers know well the Iron Triangle of scope, schedule and budget. We are all familiar with the way that a poor balance ricochets around, weakens the other corners and ultimately degrades quality. But poorly...
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July 5, 2016 •
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By definition a project delivers a well-defined product, but as a thing itself it’s not so concrete. There are dimensions, perspectives and vectors: pilot projects, sub-projects and programs; and being an abstract thing that exists in the minds...
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March 15, 2016 •
Standards & Regulation •
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Part 2 – Working with the (Cyber) Man Homeland security’s broad take on cybersecurity (mentioned in part 1) may be a little expansive, but that only highlights the fact that it is an area of IT that’s uniquely engaged with the tools of...
