Zach on Leadership

Enterprise IT teams have a lot of responsibilities. We need to run 24/7/365 operations, give great customer service, develop new business capabilities, keep the hackers out, refresh the technology on lifecycle, orchestrate M&A activities, implement business projects, and somewhere down the list is innovation. Yes, the business expects us to innovate. It’s part of the job. The term, innovation, has some connotation for us. In my role, I buy technology and services from tech companies. Those tech companies have R&D…

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I love the Back to the Future trilogy. It’s hard to admit this, but growing up, this trilogy was probably even more influential than Star Wars. Marty McFly was the guy that everyone wanted to be. He skateboarded, played in a rock band that I’m afraid was just too darn loud, and had time travel at his disposal. He basically had it all. Marty McFly was late for everything. As you think back through the series, just about every scene…

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Boba Fett is one of the coolest characters in Star Wars. He’s mysterious. He’s independent. He has his own unique style. Best of all, he’s a bounty hunter. That profession may give you the impression that Boba Fett is a not very nice, but to the contrary, he is actually a very caring individual. Case-in-point, Darth Vader wanted to test his carbonite freezer to make sure it was safe for people before using it on Luke. When Vader volunteered Han…

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The only thing constant in enterprise technology is change itself. If you boil it down, that’s the essence of our jobs. We change things: applications, web services, networks, desktops, databases, architectures, you name it. That’s the bulk of the work. Keeping systems humming without any change isn’t really that hard. It’s all of the new business requirements, refactoring, security patches, technology upgrades, organic growth, and audit remediation that makes life exciting, isn’t it? With all of this change, you’d think…

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