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Google and Failure-Tolerant Cultures
I recently read Andrew Chen’s interesting post, Built to Fail: How companies like Google, IDEO, and 37signals build failure-tolerant systems for anything. Chen discusses how and why some organizations...
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Blog Bout I: Risk vs. Monopoly
Ding ding…. A “blog-bout” is a good-natured debate between two bloggers. This blog-bout is between Jim Harris and Phil Simon, where they debate which board game is the better metaphor for an...
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Management Lessons from In-N-Out Burger
I read two books on my recent trip to Las Vegas and Arizona. I reviewed Planet Google recently and I was going to review Stacy Perman’s In-N-Out Burger. Color me lazy, but I didn’t want to do a proper...
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The Chopping Block: Cutting Features from an IT Project
I am often involved with projects that are running behind schedule and over budget. Such is life of an IT consultant, I suppose. In many instances, projects can recoup valuable time if non-essential...
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Who’s looking for free tech and analytics expertise?
“Free is always good.” —Monique Candelaria as Lucy in “Live Free or Die”, Breaking Bad Starting next month, I will be teaching two capstone courses at ASU. Based on my background and body of work,...
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The Millennial Imperative: Embracing New Technologies and a New Mind-Set
By the time that you read this, I’ll be ensconced in my new position as a full-time faculty member at ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business. In my first year, I’ll be teaching a number of courses in...
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Does your organization’s infrastructure support Big Data?
In my last post, I argued that many organizations suffered from antiquated tech infrastructures that enhanced startups’ inherent advantage. The results are often disastrous: The recent Yahoo! deal...
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The Case Against Analytics Projects
Back in 2014, I spoke at Netflix headquarters about The Visual Organization. From the moment I entered the building, I detected a decidedly different vibe compared to most organizations on my book...
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Compliance: Boring but Essential
This August I joined the faculty at the W. P. Carey School Business at Arizona State University. Along with a course on analytics, I also teach the capstone course CIS440: Systems Design. In a...
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Who’s looking for free tech and analytics expertise?
Introduction “Free is always good.” —Monique Candelaria as Lucy in “Live Free or Die”, Breaking Bad Starting next month, I will be teaching two capstone courses at ASU. Based on my background and body...
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The Millennial Imperative: Embracing New Technologies and a New Mind-Set
By the time that you read this, I’ll be ensconced in my new position as a full-time faculty member at ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business. In my first year, I’ll be teaching a number of courses in...
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Does your organization’s infrastructure support Big Data?
In my last post, I argued that many organizations suffered from antiquated tech infrastructures that enhanced startups’ inherent advantage. The results are often disastrous: The recent Yahoo! deal...
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The Case Against Analytics Projects
Introduction Back in 2014, I spoke at Netflix headquarters about The Visual Organization. From the moment I entered the building, I detected a decidedly different vibe compared to most organizations...
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Compliance: Boring but Essential
This August I joined the faculty at the W. P. Carey School Business at Arizona State University. Along with a course on analytics, I also teach the capstone course CIS440: Systems Design. In a...
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The Speed of Analytics
Introduction As someone who’s attended more than his fair share of tech conferences over the years, I’ve heard the follow refrain more times that I can count: It takes our organization too long to...
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The Case for DevOps
Introduction We’re long past the days in which a single, monolithic “IT Department” can address the entirety of an organizational and employee technology needs. More than ever, enterprises need to...
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DevOps Challenges
Introduction In my last post, I introduced DevOps and briefly explained its history and benefits. An organization cannot merely change the name of its IT department to DevOps and expect to immediately...
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Looking to Teach Somewhere Not Scorching This Summer
“It’s not the heat it’s the inhumanity.” —Rush, “Ceiling Unlimited” More than six years ago, I moved to Las Vegas from New Jersey. As I explain in this post, the move made sense for a number of...
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Introducing 5marbles
For a long time now, I’ve counted on income from several different sources. In no particular order, these planks in my platform were my full-time teaching gig, speaking, writing, book sales, and...
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Characteristics of My Best Students
Introduction Over the last two years of professing, I have certainly noticed traits that separate the good students from the bad ones. In this post, I’ll examine three characteristics of my very best...
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