How CIOs can help the future suck less than the present

According to Mark Andreessen, sometime between 2006 and 2013, incoming freshmen at Harvard bought into the mantra that “tech is evil.” This has trickled into the general IT mindset.

For many outside the profession, IT resembles the portfolio of televised advertisements during Super Bowl LIX: “very little creativity,” “not much in the way of simple, effective storytelling,” “not worth the money,” and “not targeted at me.”

IT’s brighter future starts with stakeholders

The other day I saw a bumper sticker that read, “Your company culture is not words on your website or posters on the wall. It’s how your people feel on a Sunday night.” On Sunday night, are stakeholders thinking positively about putting their hands back on your systems?