A few simple web searches is all it takes to reveal an unfortunate image of the typical CIO and/or IT Manager in today’s enterprise. They’ve been characterized as ‘hijackers of the cloud’ (Information Week), ‘aloof and insular’ (Computerworld), and ‘no longer up to the job’ (TechRepublic). At the same time, these searches also point out that [...]
The change of pace in the way we work is occurring faster now than in any time I can remember during my career in the “tech field.” After graduating college, I excitedly traversed through rush hour traffic and arrived for my first day of work with my new employer. I worked in a controlled IT [...]
One of the reasons I enjoy my role at Avanade is because I get to have discussions with major customers around how disruptive technology shifts, (such as cloud), will make a difference to their business and IT strategies. However, it is quite rare for a customer to deal with these trends in isolation (I wrote [...]
Being involved with SharePoint over the past seven years, I’ve been a faithful user of the platform. After attending the SharePoint Conference in 2012, I was enthusiastic about the capabilities and the tremendous improvements in terms of social collaboration, business intelligence, and all of the other aspects of SharePoint. I sat in session after session [...]
As Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Avanade, I make it my job to infuse customer-centric innovation and industrialization in all of our services. Innovation is at the core of everything we do, every day. The way our customers work is changing fast, and so is the role of IT in supporting those changes. We build [...]
At Avanade, we have a history of early adoption of Microsoft technologies. It makes sense for us, being a Microsoft solutions integrator. This aligns with our strategy to provide our customers with showcase examples of innovative technologies actively being used to run our business. While, in general, we consider ourselves an early, and [...]
One of the key principles in economic investment curricula is the principle of “sunk costs.” Bluntly, this means if you have invested in a proposition which you know is losing… don’t throw good money after bad. When it comes to IT strategy, this same principle applies. Traditionally, the extremely high cost of capital would [...]
The question of Public Cloud versus Private Cloud is one of the most contentious in the field right now. It generates some very heated debate between evangelists of both camps. The answer is of course “Your Mileage May Vary”. The most important thing for an organisation making a decision in this area is that [...]
