All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Shopenhauer – German philosopher Hewlett Packard had one of the great corporate cultures of the 70s and 80s. When people talk about Silicon Valley at it’s best, they are talking about Hewlett…
De eindgebruikerswerkplek. Mijn schouders gingen al hangen bij alleen al de gedachte aan dat ik iets moest doen met de werkplek. Je wist van tevoren al dat heel veel gedoe je te wachten stond en je nooit tot een cool en gaaf product zou komen. Maar tijden zijn veranderd. De technologie is sinds een jaar…
There is a lot of discussion on how to start using Office 365 in your organization before people are actually doing anything. Especially orgs older then 15 years tend to stall. They have file servers containing dozen of terabytes of data, created non-transparent work processes and have a relatively older workforce. And then there is…
“What about vendor lock-in?” people ask me when I’m having talks about public cloud. “If I put all of my applications and data in Azure and Office 365, Microsoft has got me by the balls. Why should I do this?” It is a good question, and there is a good answer too. To be sure,…
How do IT managers, architects and other people in the IT department deal with the change public cloud brings us? In my last post I described one of the things I see in my work that lead to the end of the current form of many IT departments. The challenge for IT people is to…
In 2006 virtualization changed my work in IT completely. I adapted (with joy) and created value. Now it’s 2016 and the greatest disruption ever in IT is going on. As people and organizations are struggling more then ever, again I’m adapting. Why? Because what brought me here won’t get me there and I want to…
The biggest challenge for companies in this decade is to really align business with IT. Organizations not willing to do this will be in trouble sooner or later. We, the IT guys, always talk about that we have to get closer to the business. But the fact is that the business needs to get closer…
