Ken Hanley

To anybody who says that there is no such thing as a dumb question, here is my refutation. Those are dumb questions, no matter how you cut it.

At some point, someone's got to make a decision, popular or not, and then everyone else in the shop has move quickly on that decision, whether they like it or not. And if they can't live with the impacts of such decisions, they should be prepared to leave.

The days of selling or building technology, and then expecting the world to embrace it just because of what it does, are vanishing.

Late one night a few weeks ago, I played in a (relatively) high stakes poker game, and was quickly reminded of how very bad...

One of the casualties of the broad decline in the "attractiveness" of the IT business is the ability to think on a broad and integrated basis. It's becoming increasingly rare, and just at a time when we need it the most. Subsequently, we're seeing the rise of the non-visionary, "hell no" bureaucrat CIO.

So you think you run a pretty tight IT shop? Maybe, but maybe not.

No, I'm not talking about the recent collapse of Boston (again) at the hands of the New York Yankees

Those of us who don't learn from the past are destined to repeat it.