by Jack Santos | November 27, 2012 | 1 Comment
This morning’s WSJ CIO journal had a piece on software audits by Microsoft and Oracle. That brought back painful memories of a particularly arduous period in my CIO career. It started with a conversation with my CEO about their hatred for Microsoft in general, and Bill Gates (who they met personally) in particular. Board politics [...]
Category: CIO issues Vendor Contracts Tags: CIO, vendor
by Jack Santos | September 4, 2012 | Comments Off
Probably one of the longer running logos, recently changed, at least among tech companies. Will it make my 1987-vintage baseball call worth more? Note that the baseball cap modified version did not have the stylized “os”, the close letter spacing, and less of a slant type….making it much like the recently announced logo (without [...]
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Category: management Managment Vendor Contracts Tags: management, microsoft, Strategy
by Jack Santos | February 21, 2012 | Comments Off
Ronald Reagan’s shadow looms big in the American political scene, and a favorite saying of his was: doveryai, no proveryai; in English: “Trust but Verify” – relating to the START arms agreements that he signed with the then USSR. I think that in IT we have a similar stance on many fronts of security, integrity, [...]
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Category: Externalization governance practitioner security Vendor Contracts Tags: Externalization, security, Strategy, vendor
by Jack Santos | April 5, 2011 | Comments Off
I met Jing Wang from Kaiser Permanente (KP) yesterday. She works in Information Security at KP. She is a women on a mission. Some biomedical devices being installed in hospitals and doctors offices may be inherently insecure – sometimes held to a lower standard of virus protection and intrusion prevention. Why? speed to market, security [...]
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Category: IT Governance management Managment Operational Technology security Vendor Contracts Tags: Healthcare, management, privacy, security, vendor
by Jack Santos | March 8, 2011 | Comments Off
An interesting anecdote from the Premier 100 Conference in Palm Springs ( I am a past honoree, and have habitually attended these these events as an alumnus). In a discussion about “bring your own devices” (or bring your own technology) it was noted that human nature favors control. So if a person buys/owns their own, [...]
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Category: CIO issues IT Governance management Managment Outsourcing Vendor Contracts Tags: CIO, consumerization, Externalization, mobility, Outsourcing
by Jack Santos | November 23, 2010 | Comments Off
The conversations I have been having with IT executives have spiked in one important area: outsourcing and vendor management. Certainly, cloud (as a form of outsourcing) is contributing to that. But it is also becoming apparent that we are seeing a tidal wave in the making. That tidal wave involves the role of IT, and [...]
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Category: career CIO issues Externalization governance IT Governance management Managment Offshore Outsourcing Strategic Planning Vendor Contracts Tags: career, CIO, Externalization, IT relevance, management, Mergers, Outsourcing, Strategy
