Don’t Spend Money Where You Don’t Have To

If you are a company with less than 100 employees you’re probably struggling with the IT infrastructure. It doesn’t do what you want it to do, but you can’t justify hiring more people to make it work the way you want. Why are you wrestling with this problem? It’s not your area of expertise or…

What Type of Leader Are You?

The role of the CXO, particularly the CIO is primarily one of leadership, but it’s the one thing we generally never get trained for. Ironically, it has become the “definition” of the CIO in recent time as the job becomes increasingly complex and specialized. More Dan Gingras on CIO Update Is the CIO Obsolete? The…

SaaS: Financial, Legal & Negotiation Issues

A cross-functional team with representatives from IT, Finance, and Legal should be involved in the acquisition of mission-critical software as a service (SaaS) applications. SaaS is a software distribution model in which applications are hosted by a vendor or service provider and made available to customers over a network, typically the Internet or VPN. Better…