In days of old, towns used to build walls behind which they gathered their family, friends, and business partners to stand against the onslaught of attackers from afar. The landscape we operate in today is much the same. However it is digital, not physical forts that we need to build. Read more
Organizations partner daily with external parties in the form of consultants, software developers and creative agencies to turn ideas into marketable products and services. If the question of ownership is not addressed at the start of the relationship, it has the potential to hinder the beneficiation that should occur as Read more
How many of you in the Information Technology industry are happy with the municipalities in which you live and work? The media seldom heralds their good news. Instead, the loudest voices bemoan the lack of communications, efficient record-keeping, and the crumbling infrastructure. Amid the cacophony of voices, there are few Read more
Early adopters of crypto-currency are those that bought into the concept when there were only a handful of coins available to choose from. They invested their pocket money before the value of crypto went up and may be found somewhere around the world where the weather is warm, having left Read more
When you tap your room key card to access the ocean view at the start of your holiday, data and information security is probably the last thing you want to think about. Yet hotels are responsible for holding all types of private information. Your contact details, address, and credit card Read more
I like to tinker about. There have been times when this tinkering has resulted in a ‘broken’ website. At those times, my favorite word to throw at the server support staff is ‘roll-back’. This means that they should kindly please restore the website to the last version. The version that Read more
The more I consider it, the more I appreciate the ways that good supplier management takes project management and moves it into overdrive. While project managers engage with groups that focus on solving specific business challenges, good supplier managers approach their work from a perspective whose outcomes benefit the entire Read more
War, earthquakes, civil unrest, and global pandemics. These are the makings of a Force Majeure event. The 2021 Covid epidemic has been the largest Force Majeure event of the century. It taught us to prepare for workplace disruptions in a way that has entrenched remote working, online storage, and automation Read more
When Generation X transitioned from analog to digital phones, they bravely embraced a handful of cellular phone providers. Over the years they continued to embrace new features and device capacity as they were developed, all the while educating the older and younger generations on how to use these magnificent devices. Read more
A perplexing headline recently caught my eye. It read something like: “Lack of Access to Helium Gas Might Affect Semi-Conductor Supply”. I wondered how the gas used to fill party balloons could have the potential to impact negatively on the production speed of the growing data centers in our country. Read more