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DevSecOps – Dramatically Improving your Information Security Quickly

“Shift Left” might be the center square on most “buzz word bingo sheets” these days. For most of us,...

Jack Maher
Apr 15, 2020 2 min read

Focusing on People – The Key to a Successful Digital Transformation

The Current State of Digital Transformation As we move into the new decade, one thing remains—and promises to remain—constant...

Manuel Garcia
Mar 16, 2020 2 min read

Site Reliability Engineering is one of the hottest and fastest growing roles in today’s IT talent market

In January 2019 LinkedIn called the SRE role the 2nd most promising job in the US, behind only Data...

Jack Maher
Feb 20, 2020 2 min read

The Value of a DevOps Certification

With the recent formalization of DevOps as a cultural movement that is transforming the way in which IT areas...

Manuel Garcia
Jan 7, 2020 2 min read

Development Areas Have Achieved Agility. And Operations?

It’s no secret that business demands on IT for new projects and deliverables have considerably increased in the last years. With the introduction of the Internet of Things...

Manuel Garcia
Nov 12, 2019 3 min read

5 Reasons for Achieving Higher IT Process Maturity

All IT organizations have processes. Whether they acknowledge it or not, the activities they perform are part of a process, which may or may not be defined; but...

Manuel Garcia
Dec 16, 2019 2 min read

The future of retail and recommendations to aspiring CIOs from former Wendy’s CIO [S1E6]

Interview with John Deane, former CIO of Abercrombie & Fitch, Wendy’s and more. With over 40 years of...

Global Lynx
May 11, 2020 13 sec read

Focusing on People: The key to succeed in Digital Transformation [S1E5]

Digital Transformation keeps driving the priorities of IT organizations across industries, and it is no secret that CIOs...

Global Lynx
May 4, 2020 22 sec read

How IT frameworks can support Digital Transformation [S1E4] Future IT Podcast

Digital transformation is about innovation and creativity. Frameworks promote control, which seems to be obstructive or perceived as...

Manuel Garcia
Apr 27, 2020 18 sec read

Site Reliability Engineering: What is it and how can it assist Digital Transformation? [S1E3] Future IT Podcast

Today’s Site Reliability Engineer spends about half of their time on the ops side making sure that issues are...

Jack Maher
Apr 20, 2020 10 sec read

What Makes IT to Be Successful?

Perhaps many IT professionals have made this question themselves, and indeed there are many answers that may seem correct. But let me provide more...

Manuel Garcia
Mar 12, 2018 2 min read

The Real Scope of DevOps

Many people believe that DevOps is just meant for Development staff and IT Operations staff. Many with lower levels of curiosity who have not...

Manuel Garcia
Jan 8, 2018 2 min read

Using DevOps for Improving Cybersecurity

Using DevOps for Improving Cybersecurity In the current digital era, IT organizations are striving to become more efficient and continually respond to the ever-changing...

Manuel Garcia
Nov 13, 2017 2 min read

Negative Impact of Not Having an IT Security Awareness…

Negative Impacts of Not Having an IT Security Awareness Program in Place This year information attacks to organizations have been more frequent, intended to get...

John Buk
Sep 11, 2017 1 min read

The Life after IT Service Management

It’s All about Value Creation Many organizations have implemented IT Service Management best practices and have enthusiastically invested in the adoption (i.e. training, process...

Manuel Garcia
Jul 10, 2017 2 min read

Is This the Right Time to Undertake a DevOps…

DevOps —the cultural movement that stresses the importance of collaboration and communication between IT teams, especially Development and Operations—seems to be the current strategy all...

John Buk
May 15, 2017 2 min read

The Benefits of Adopting Frameworks

Are You Aware of the IT Value Realized? We discussed on previous posts how frameworks are good enablers of IT value creation and how...

Manuel Garcia
Mar 13, 2017 2 min read

IT Strategic Roadmap, Brief # 3: Frameworks

IT Strategic Roadmap, Brief # 3: Frameworks as Guidance and Enablers of IT Value A Review on IT Strategic Roadmaps An IT strategic roadmap,...

Manuel Garcia
Dec 5, 2016 3 min read

IT Strategic Roadmap, Brief # 2: A Shareholders Return…

Defining an IT Strategic Roadmap Brief # 2: A Shareholders Return Approach to IT Value Creation As discussed in the previous article in this Brief...

Manuel Garcia
Sep 12, 2016 3 min read

The Value Stream: What Customer Value Delivery Actually Looks Like If you hold a management role, either in IT or in a business department, you are most likely aware that the metric of “time-to-market” is losing relevance as a business success indicator, being now... Read More

A digital strategy approach for Enterprise Value Creation [S1E7] During the last episode of Future IT, John Deane, the former CIO of Wendy’s and Abercrombie & Fitch, made emphasis that digital transformation must start with an understanding of what he calls ‘the... Read More