Author: Eastbaycio

The job of managing Enterprise Information Technology comes with the knowledge that at any point in any day – something could go wrong and cause critical business problems.  We have so many pieces of hardware and software that are connected, interdependent, and unfortunately hard to manage. We have people who are connected, interdependent, and have varying degrees of management difficulty.  We have bad guys trying to steal or corrupt our data and a growing demand for new services and systems. Recently William Vanderbloemen wrote a piece for Forbes that offered some brilliant advice for Entrepreneurs that I believe is particularly relevant for Enterprise Information Technology Executives.  He used the recent European Open Golf Tournament (aka British Open) as a teaching lesson.  If you saw any part of that tournament you…

There is little argument about two primary themes leading to this Blog: (1) there is no shortage of sports stories and references that become lessons in business (2) I have never been thought of as an original thinker. But as we head into the 2018 Soccer World Cup Finals in Russia (starts this week) my lack of originality has led me to use sports stories and references for lessons in business. The World Cup Finals are played every four years after nearly four years of qualifying games for every country competing to be in the Finals. Four years ago, the World Cup was played in Brazil and I was fortunate enough to be there. To be honest – my adult life has been equal parts passion about business and about…