Aligning Business and IT to Deliver Results (Part 2)

June 11, 2015 Michelle Moore Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Successful business-IT alignment requires more than a good relationship between the chief information officer (CIO) and other C-level executives. To realize the full benefits that successful business-IT alignment can deliver, there needs to be alignment at three levels.

C-Suite and Techies: Some Essential Security Tools

June 9, 2015 James Michael Stewart Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Not every executive is aware of all the essential security tools that every organization needs. This blog post is intended to be a quick primer for those executives, and it also serves as a talking points memo for IT security officers who need to communicate the key security elements.

Aligning Business and IT to Deliver Results (Part 1)

June 8, 2015 Michelle Moore Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Technology has become the driving force of business as organizations look to IT to innovate business models, improve customer intimacy and deliver superior business results in a competitive and complex environment. In order to fully leverage the benefits technology can deliver, business and technical stakeholders need to collaborate in new and different ways, which requires different skills and knowledge for both parties.

C-Suite and Techies: How to Communicate Cybersecurity

May 12, 2015 James Michael Stewart Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Organizational security is a complex task that needs focus and attention. The security design that protects a company from attack and compromise is not typically derived from of a preexisting template. Instead, it requires research and analysis of every aspect of an organization in order to craft a solution that is customized for the risks and needs of that company. One key element of security policy design and implementation is communication.

New IT Requires New Skills for 2015 and Beyond

January 22, 2015 Mike Lewis Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

As IT evolves from craft to process to service integration — new jobs, new roles and new functions emerge. The current move toward mobile, cloud, apps or app-like data interfaces provided by XaaS vendors will create the need for IT people who understand essentially every part of the information technology ecosystem. To fill the new roles, IT people will have to know the technology, understand the services, create relationships with service providers, know the contract support language, and grasp the underlying architectures that connect a multitude of vendors into one shared interface.