IT Could Benefit from Being More Social

Posted by on May 4, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

It’s Friday and that’s kind of a social day where you go out with friends after work or look forward to a weekend of social activities, and that got me thinking that perhaps it’s time for IT to be a bit more social too. Enterprise 2.0 social software could help. In fact, Mike Vizard has a post this week on IT Edge about a new social software package designed specifically for IT pros. That’s fine as far as it goes, if you all you wanted to do was communicate and collaborate with your fellow IT pros, but what about when you want to communicate with folks outside the...

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Big Data is Truly Transforming the Enterprise

Posted by on May 3, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

Among the many trends slamming into IT today is the idea of Big Data, and while it is no doubt the buzzword of the day, there is definitely something happening around the idea of using data to understand your business better. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to MIT professor Andrew McAfee about this notion of big data. McAfee is best known for being the guy who coined the term Enterprise 2.0, the idea of bringing social tools into the enterprise. He is currently principal research scientist at MIT’s Center for Digital Busines and recently wrote a book called Race Against the Machine with...

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IT Pros Need to Start Thinking About Innovation

Posted by on Jan 11, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

Alex Howard, who covers Government 2.0 for O’Reilly, has an interesting feature this week on the Maryland CIO. The ‘i‘ in this case doesn’t not stand for information, but innovation. Perhaps all IT departments could use a little more of that. Bryan Sivak was hired by the State of Maryland to shake up the status quo, to find interesting and creative ways of getting things done that others might not have considered before. For instance, he had citizens send in pictures in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene to show emergency management the full impact on real...

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