The economy sucks.  There is no doubt that any and every company is taking a look at costs and trying to find ways to streamline them.  As such, IT leadership is being asked to do more with the same budget, or in many cases with less of a budget, or in some cases the IT leadership is being moved out of the executive suite altogether.  It seems like a daily occurrence that a C-level or D-level IT professional is asking me how I think they can go about innovating the organization with less of a budget to do so. As an experiment I asked a number of people who I…

In corporate mergers and acquisition land transition periods can be difficult when they’re not managed with the appropriate level of planning and foresight. Northwest is based out of Minneapolis and when I moved here I started flying on them exclusively (which isn’t hard to do since most flights are through them anyway). The Northwest and Delta merger have led to a new credit card being issued to me, new logos here and there, lots of snail mail about how my miles will be handled (too much snail mail =’s white noise btw) and other than that, very little annoyance. It’s been a pretty smooth run thus far. But of course,…