Josh Richards Blog
Expect More Service Provider Mergers …and Start-Ups
This week Covad and MegaPath announced a merger agreement. I’m not at all surprised. In my work I continue to see little compelling differentiation among service providers.
The result will be two (seemingly) conflicting trends:
* Mergers among existing players
* Startups stealing business out from under the noses of existing players
The tiny players, without significant [...]
CFOs to CIOs: Get Real
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14452865
Monthly Client Letter: Learning From Million Dollar Mistakes, More Business and Less Tech in IT Success – October 2009
My October 2009 Letter to clients, friends, and colleagues was mailed out this week. In case you missed it or would like to pass it along, well, here you go. You can download it as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file.
JRC-Client-Letter-Issue1.pdf
CIO Sanity Savers (Good Resource!)
This is a nifty weekly on-line show I ran across. It’s called CIO Sanity Savers. I’ll let them their description speak for itself:
This show will provide actionable tips for CIOs and IT Directors to help them become more effective leaders, make good technology decisions, align IT and business goals, and better manage [...]
The most successful IT departments…
…have their eyes on business goals, but their ears open to technology trends & innovations.