I recently sat through a conference call with a vendor in which he faced some gentle but legitimate pointed questioning. The issue was this: It wasn’t clear that we were getting much for our money from one aspect of their… Read More ›

The IT Philosopher
On Being a High-Performance “Contender”
I recently saw the movie “On the Waterfront“, starring Marlon Brando. It was a phenomenal movie and I can undersand why it’s considered a classic. In it, Brando’s character delivers his famous line: “I coulda been a contender!” He had… Read More ›
Pursuit of the Paradigm: Should You “Go Cloud”?
In 1962, Professor and self-proclaimed Philosopher of Science Thomas Kuhn wrote his seminal work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In it, he argued that “science” is not the collective effort of neutral scientists who patiently test various axioms in pursuit… Read More ›