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Security Approach – what matters

It is always with amusement that I receive offers of “free reviews” or “free assessment” when it comes to security. Invariably the company performing the assessment identifies a fatal flaw in the current architecture and does the Dick Cheney VP selection approach: they magically have the exact solution for the problem they identified and they […]

Cyber Security in the Wild

For something that was unheard of when Internet started (though viruses were there all along) to now having completely separate departments from IT with a C-level suite leader, this is quite a transformation in 25 years. There is a myriad of tools / techniques/ methodologies/ standards coupled with a larger myriad of vendors accomplishing from […]

Technology Strategy for Law firms

Law firms are very interesting organizations for a few reasons that make IT/ Technology strategy interesting. A law firm rarely has a clear hierarchical structure. The back-office side of the firm (“business administration”) tends to look like a “regular enterprise”, but the production side (practicing attorneys) tend to gravitate loosely around the managing partner, the […]

Vendor selection

A mandatory skill for any IT leader today is to know how to properly select a vendor. There are few projects/ services nowadays where internal resources, even with staff augmentation, can deliver the entire scope of a project/ service area. More often that not, nowadays cloud is the first choice. Vendor selection should be managed […]

The hidden dangers of hidden costs

Barring some illegal activities, accounting rules for managing financials for an organization are fairly established and reliable. However, when it comes to managing costs for projects in the real world, things are far from being clear cut. I will review a few real live examples of how using various costs models and market forces impact […]

Project Management – an art or a science ?

As any long practicing project manager will attest, being a project manager is both an art and a science. It is an art, because you have to skillfully navigate the people, processes and tools to deliver the value that drives the project. It is a science because it has specific tools and techniques to get […]