Category Archives: IT Business

Impatience, Shortcuts & Quickies

Boss, Cloud, IT Business
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One of the more annoying themes in IT is the lack of understanding that anything valuable and complex takes time. We recently launched a new service at work and I’ve spent the past month on the phone talking to people … Continue reading

Business Model Match

IT Business
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While we haven’t yet officially announced the biggest thing we have on deck this year (because we want to talk to our partners about it first and there are many of you and most of you don’t pick up the … Continue reading

SM Mobile Strategy & Growth

IT Business, Shockey Monkey, SMB
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A little bit on strategery here just so we’re smoking the same stuff.. Today we announced the Android native application for Shockey Monkey:   It’s joining native applications on iPhone and iPad – none of that webkit / slow junk … Continue reading

What is your business really worth?

IT Business
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Business valuation is hardly connected to reality and sales prices can wildly swing depending on whether the industry is growing, if the technology is truly unique or it’s hard to find talent. Sadly, most companies look for a seller out … Continue reading

What we can learn from Microsoft

Boss, IT Business, Microsoft
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Blogs and media alike have been on fire about opinions regarding Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia – everything from the largest trojan horse operation in corporate history to the typical armchair quarterbacking of what else Microsoft should have done. While entertaining, … Continue reading

The Breakout Moment

Boss, IT Business
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One of the qualities that I despise in office workers is that of mediocrity. Our jobs are not physically demanding, we’re not lifting stuff, there is no fatigue associated with sitting in an air conditioned office.. so there is no … Continue reading

CompTIA Cloud Community: Trustmark Experiment

Events, IT Business, IT Culture
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This blog post (and few others) will cover the takeaways from the CompTIA Cloud Community in which I participate. I am not paid for it, the following is just my opinion, not approved or associated with CompTIA in any way … Continue reading

Business Of Technological Change

ExchangeDefender, IT Business
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For as long as I’ve been in the IT business (which at this point is roughly more than half of it’s existence, since the rise of commercial Internet) our jobs have been those of implementing change. Implementing networks, servers, devices, … Continue reading

The case against RMM

IT Business
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I’ve certainly written my fair share about the RMMpocalypse and you’ve proportionately flooded my mailbox regarding the need for such a tool. I admit, the deadpool of the RMM consolidation is not in a significant way an indication of a … Continue reading

MSP vendors are like a box of chocolates

IT Business, Rant
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Another RMM & PSA business.. poof. Except this time they didn’t even bother putting up an elaborate lie about “becoming more competitive, better resources, nothing will change” – instead a hand written “Please flush twice” sign. But hey, it wouldn’t … Continue reading