The Seamless Enterprise

You have to love independent surveys. I can stand up in front of customers all day and tell them how good a job Sprint is doing, but they tend to discount what I say since I work for Sprint. You can’t really blame them; they hear that from everybody. So it’s great when a third-party survey – particularly one done by two well-respected organizations – comes along and makes the point. (more…)

I am so pleased to report on part I of a recent interview with William Compton, CIO and VP-Information Management for ConvaTec, a leader and marketer of medical technologies worldwide.

With Americans focusing on the universal healthcare debate in the United States, what an incredible opportunity to talk frankly with a CIO in the healthcare industry. Not only did we talk about William’s perspective on the impact of universal healthcare on IT, we addressed topics such as green IT, unified communications, and cloud computing impacting enterprises in all vertical industries.

As you read William’s point of view, I invite you to comment on the business challenges and IT concerns you deem most relevant to your enterprise in 2010. (more…)

On December 29^th, Information Week announced that a German computer scientist cracked the encryption algorithm that secures 80% of the world’s mobile phones. This means more than 3 billion mobile users, in over 200 countries, could be compromised. That sounds big, but just how big is the threat, and what does it mean to your enterprise? (more…)

Jeff Pulver made what I thought was an interesting observation in a recent conference call. We were talking about my guest blog over at Pulver.com, and he happened to comment about how in his pre-social media guru days, he was an IT guy at a brokerage house. (more…)

Some head-to-head contests are close matches, and some are blowouts. Sprint’s win in the MPLS services category of the Nemertes 2009 Pilothouse Awards was a blowout. And we haven’t stopped smiling since the results were announced. (more…)