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HS 026 So You Want to Develop A Technology Strategy ?
What are the right questions for developing and maintaining a technology strategy for your company ?
HS025 Did You Know Your IT is a Crime Scene ?
Does planning for cybersecurity failure include the concept of 'crime scene' ? Can you provide evidence to an external investigation sufficient to get justice or simply prove to insurance investigator that you met the policy requirements ? Should you be lobbying governments ? How does this drive your cyber spending - defense, microsegmentation, detection or evidence collection ?
HS 024 – Is Shadow IT a Good Thing
Shadow IT does not always lead to bad outcom
HS 023 Horrors and Hurdles of Hybrid Work
What about changing the work we do ? Perhaps with orchestration / automation and even AI ? So many questions, not many answers.
HS022 Top Mistakes Customers Make Dealing With Vendors
Contracts are caveat emptor but the client often knows little about the what they are buying and why.
HS020 Are Operational and Technical Debt Complementary
We start debating the nature of technical debt. What is it, how is it created before moving into solutions. Then we take an unexpected turn into operational debt, why its more important and how software defined has delivered solutions here. Also, we dunk on digital transformation.
HS021 The Great Realisation Not Great Resignation
Headlines about ‘great resignation’ tend to ignore that people are moving jobs not quitting work. We believe many people are making choices about what work they want in their lives. We discuss four reasons: 1) toxic workplaces 2) lifestyle and remote work 3) downstepping and 4) early retirement. We note that recruiters are toxic arms... Read more »
HS019 Questions on Corporate Technology Strategy
What makes a technology strategy ? Where do you start ? Are you business or solution centric ? Being a leader means risk and funding, being a follower is simpler and faster. What questions should you be asking when establishing an IT strategy ? Heavy Strategy is where the questions are more important than the... Read more »
HS018 API Management is a Configuration Problem
Johna believes that API management is part of IT operations. Greg doesn't understand the question and so we set off in search of answers.
HS017 The Role of Standards in a Conflicted World
The internet has become part of society now and this means that governments will want to put controls on it. Are our standards bodies fit for purpose ?
HS016 Team Structure for Technology Teams
Discussing what might drives team structure in Enterprise IT.
HS015: Targeting in IT Marketing – Who and When
With so much money allocated to marketing teams, why do customers find it disagreeable and unpleasant to be a victim of their activities ?
HS014 Software Defined Infrastructure – New Build or Not ?
Do you need new hardware to cloud enable your infrastructure ? Should you strategise products on new hardware/greenfield basis or enable your existing brownfield infrastructure ? In this episode we discuss value of enabling existing infrastructure Beware of the vendor goldfield that Greenfield represents Whether supply chain impacts your decisions ? The value of federated... Read more »
HS013 SaaS Solutions – What Does the Customer Lose ?
SaaS is popular as a 'not my problem' solution and easy-on-pocket entrè. So lets examine adversarial question "What does the customer lose?". Johna and Greg discuss many issues on both in the search for critical analysis on SaaS and the longer term impacts.
Heavy Strategy 012: Professional Development in Infrastructure Technology
A rarely covered topic in technology is professional development. Other careers have extensive programs to ensure practitioners develop and maintain a wide range of skills but this principle is rare in IT.
HS011 Can We Survive IT Supply Chain Disruption
We discuss what we know so far about supply chain disruption, what impacts to your projects. We also consider resellers/distributors survival and what plans can companies make.
HS010 Budgeting for Cybersecurity
When it comes to allocating budget for cybersecurity there are many approaches to breaking it down into line items. We discuss various ideas and possibilities that might offer some insight for your own situation.
HS 009 The Metrics of IT Security
How do you measure IT Security ? Specifically, how do you decide to allocate budget and justify the underlying reasoning. Most companies allocate a percentage of IT Budget, but Johna argues differently.
HS 008: Five Core Issues for IT Architects in 2021
What five issues would be top of mind for IT architects ? Security, Backup.Recovery, Cloud, Skills Development and Distributed/Hybrid Work. Listen in on why and how these issues are our choices. If you have feedback or want us to followup then head over to our Follow Up page and send us your anonymous (or not) feedback.
HS007: Distributed Work and Return To Office Strategies
Returning to the office is a key issue as companies learn that being "in person" is the new remote working