“The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.” Former Defense Director Frank Carlucci was talking about government spending when he made this comment but he may as well have been referring to those days leading up to the start of a new IT budget year. It’s that time when executives go…
DetailsIf you’re like me, you probably learned to count to ten in kindergarten. But when it comes to a company’s telecommunications infrastructure, you’d be surprised how many corporate executives have trouble with simple addition. As a company grows, telco, like other IT investments, often gets treated as the necessary evil. “The new guy needs a…
DetailsWhat’s hot, what’s not, and what never will be? The Kardashians may be the barometer for teenage fashion trends, Apple may set the bar on things like wearable gadgets, and festivals like SXSW may determine what you will be listening to for the next twelve months. But where are things going in the exciting world…
DetailsHere in the northeast, a good dose of early spring rain is helping to wash away what we hope will be the last vestiges of snow and winter. That fifty-degree liquid sunshine is enough to get us all thinking about cleaning out the garage and getting things together for some summer fun. But what’s so…
Details“No one ever understood disaster until it came.” Controversial writer Josephine Herbst penned that phrase decades ago when the words “information technology” were still tucked away in Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard’s little garage. But as our dependence on IT and the mass amounts of data it generates became the center of our business and…
DetailsLate last month, 45 thousand of the brightest minds in healthcare technology gathered in Orlando for the annual gathering of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HiMSS). IBM CEO Ginny Rometty talked about how artificial intelligence was ushering in a new golden age for healthcare delivery. Several companies marched out amazing 3D imaging software…
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