For enterprise customers to small businesses, being able to subscribe to software services versus taking on the responsibilities and costs associated with deployment and management of software systems is very compelling.

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Everyday that goes by technology becomes more and more a part of our daily personal and professional lives.  My mother has been saying for years that I am “technology dependent” and my wife even calls my iPhone my best friend (ok so I’m a lost puppy dog when I don’t have it).  I remember back [...]

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I was catching up the Twittersphere while watching my Tour de France DVR recordings and I picked up a great link to a website called Hypershifters which discusses visualization mapping for business and specifically technology. Mind Mapping is a tool I added to my arsenal a few years ago and I can’t live without it [...]

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Keeping with the them of the latest feature article “What Technology Professionals Can Learn from History” INSEAD has a great post, video, and articles around the change role of the CIO and the necessary leadership skills needed. You can check the post and a wealth of other information here. Bookmark It Hide Sites

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Throughout my career I have become a broken record around the following quote: The half-life of knowledge in technology is 6 months. Half of what I know sitting here right now will be obsolete in 6 months, that is the speed at which technology moves and why you can never stop learning. I’m sure there [...]

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Keeping with the education focused theme of the latest feature article I wanted to do a quick post on the announcement I found here about Microsoft and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization teaming up to focus on technology training programs.  Microsoft is contributing $50 million to support the ICT task force focused [...]

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My latest project is this blog.  I have started and stopped numerous times with trying to get an online space.  A good chunk of my professional life was spent in Electronic Security and I struggled with exposing the real me online.  I had a few different themes and concepts I tried in the blog sphere, [...]

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I am a father, a partner in a business, a husband, a son, a friend, a mentor. The purpose of this blog is to explain how I have become the Chief Information Officer of organizations, my family, my friends, and myself. How do you take this ever changing world of technology and apply it pratically to your everyday life to truly improve it and empower yourself and others? This blog is designed to try and answer that question through my personal and professional experiences.

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