The flurry of new mobile devices continues. Consumers (who look a lot like your employees) love them. And they naturally want to use them in their (er, your) enterprise IT environment. And that’s where the problems start. It seems like it would be simple to introduce tablets and other mobile devices into the enterprise. But [...]
I think all of us tech folk are very focused on never repeating the Great Browser Wars of the last 15 years. Having a site that said “works with Firefox 3, 3.5, IE6, and IE7 only” was a serious (and often unavoidable) injury to a firm. It blocked out entire parts of the potential customer [...]
I have been a career IT fella. Ran global infrastructure operations (outage at 2 a.m.? You bet). Issued firm-wide tech strategy for a bank. Even had the misfortune of being a CIO (was good at it, just not a lot of fun. Can I hear a whoop whoop from you CIOs out there?) One of the great benefits of moving [...]