Posts Tagged ‘Working With IT People’
Can you trust your IT professional’s answer?
I had the pleasure of performing an audit at a company recently where the lead IT professional was shocked to learn that his e-commerce system needed to be secure in order to keep credit card information secure as part of PCI-DSS compliance.
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Do IT and management skills coincide?
I recently spoke to a CEO who was incredibly frustrated with his IT professional, who is incapable of managing his IT assistant successfully. In fact, in these times when organizations are having difficulty recruiting qualified IT professionals, this CEO was considering firing this professional who is enthusiastic, knowledgeable, devoted, and highly skilled technically—even though he is not the best manager.
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Provide distractions to Gen Y at work?
If human multitasking is a fantasy, why would anyone give Generation Y employees access to distractions at work?
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Do you believe in human multitasking?
Can you, or your workers, really be productive doing more than one task at the same time? Checking e-mail while talking on the phone for instance?
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Interruptions destroy productivity
We live in this modern world of e-mail, text messages, and social media and the constant interruptions can be devastating.
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CEO expresses frustration regarding IT professionals
Recently, a CEO sent me a message saying about executives, “We don’t know what we don’t know, and we depend on the IT department for answers. They could tell me aliens fried their Wheaties on the backup drive for breakfast and how am I to challenge that?”
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Executives, does your e-mail address end in AOL?
Three different highly respected business professionals communicated with me today and each of them made comments along the lines of, “Oh—that CEO is so far behind in technology that their e-mail address ends in AOL!”
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Is IT security pushed to the back burner?
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When you outsource IT, stop paying them by the hour!
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How to know if your IT professionals are good
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