
Avoid Mistakes
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…