Latest shakeups at Dell, HP, and Cisco show interesting trends
Have enterprise tech vendors gone crazy?
Vince Salvino Dec. 8, 2015
Name one of the big vendors who hasn't had a huge restructuring, merger, or acquisition lately. I'm talking specifically about Dell/EMC, The new HP Enterprise, and Cisco. It's been a very active past few months in the news for them. So what exactly has been going on, and more importantly…
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3 Keys to Building Your Tech Team
Vince Salvino Nov. 20, 2015
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Jim Smith . Jim was speaking about an HR topic – workforce planning. I had always assumed such topics were completely irrelevant to me. I’m a hard-skilled tech person. I build things. Soft-skills and HR ideologies are a waste of time in my binary, l…
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Do Differences in Tech Affect Culture of the Workplace?
How simple differences in technology can affect a company’s entire culture.
Vince Salvino Nov. 11, 2015
A colleague recently told me the story of her Midwestern company, a .NET shop, acquiring a west coast company, an “open source” (Ruby, PHP, Python) shop. She was shocked at how different the cultures were. While geographical differences are a huge part of this cultural difference, I can say from …
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Betrayal, Failure, and Fixing Your IT Department
Vince Salvino Oct. 21, 2015
I work with IT departments all the time, small and large. I've been on the inside (corporate IT), the outside (a business unit), and even the out -outside (a 3rd party consultant). There's one thing I've noticed that never seems to change: people hate IT . They talk about their I…
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