Aneel Lakhani

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ooda x cloud

by Aneel Lakhani  |  June 23, 2012  |  Comments Off

Spending time discussing cloud in terms of mission objectives and operational leverage lately brought up John Boyd and OODA. The theory holds that: “…to win in battle a pilot needs to operate at a faster tempo then his enemy…he must stay one or two steps ahead of his adversary: he must operate inside his adversary’s [...]

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shadow IT

by Aneel Lakhani  |  June 18, 2012  |  2 Comments

“What IT people call shadow IT..what other people call getting work done.” -Jeff Gelb, Director of Technical Strategy at Pearson Getting work done is what people are paid for. IT exists to provide tools, platforms, levers, force multipliers, accelerators. No one invests in IT to create inhibitors to the work that needs doing. But where [...]

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