Ken Hanley

Articles by Ken Hanley

Cell phones and the cleaning lady

I was going to write (again) about the extent to which we IT types have become entrapped personally by the very technology that we advocate professionally, when I got smacked on the back of my head by own hypocrisy.

I need some speed, and fast

I've loaded a VPN on my PC, with the wild and obviously outrageouslynoptimistic view that I could synchronize my e-mail in a reasonable period ofntime by "tunnelling" out to my own server through my client's network

Running on two cylinders

If only half the people and half the technology in half of the organizations out there operated at half their ultimate capabilities, the economy would hum so loud it would deafen us all.

Change can kill the change agent

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Or close the wall up with our English dead!Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth, at the battlements of...

Confessions of a former anti-change management type

Alright already. I was wrong. Again.

Faster, better is marketeer speak

In my experience, "speed" generally means having to make compromises: compromises in control, compromises in quality, compromises in cost

I wanna be a digital cowboy

Funny how round numbers and periods of introspection seem to arrive together. I turned 40 a couple of weeks back, and (I hope to God) I

Altitude, attitude and self-rationalization

Here we go again

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