How do you know if a company is well managed?
The good news is I have a son who is a Professor of Finance at the University of Melbourne. Of course, the down side of this is, I am old…
WSJ article – Applying Venture Capital Strategies to IT
I have just read an article on how IT should apply VC capital strategies to IT. My first reaction is that the authors have never been practitioners - they have…
Private Equity readiness for SEC registration
I recently completed an assignment for a Private Equity (PE) firm with one of the objectives being to ensure they were ready to complete the SEC registration. The engagement was…
Build vs Buy – the old discussion continues
The ‘build’ part of IT is the most understood function we have, at least in concept. There are thousands of articles and books and numerous methodologies and tools supporting the…
The IT Value Chain
All around the country – when IT leaders (whether this person is titled CIO or Director or Manager – which is a topic for a later post) speak with their…
Aha!
I will be writing on topics that hopefully trigger the 'Aha!' moment in a broad range of areas - risk (in its many forms - technology, projects, personal, company), budgeting,…