A Screw's Loose

Business is a Sport, You Need a Team

by Brian Katz on May 20, 2013 · 0 comments

Last weekend I had the good fortune to watch the FA Cup final on television. It’s the oldest football tournament in the world and consists of teams from the English Premier League down to 5 leagues below which can include some amateur teams. The final was played between Manchester City, a team that finished the season in 2^nd place in the premier league against Wigan Athletic, a team that finished in 18^th place and is therefore relegated to league below the EPL for next year. This was truly a final between a financial giant that had all of the expensive players, the average salary of a City player on the pitch during the final was above $16.5 million against a team whose total salary for the entire team was only $16.5 million. It was a terrific match and in the end, Wigan won the cup by a score of 1-0 and by far looked liked the best team on the pitch. Interestingly enough, this parable plays out at many companies today. [click to continue…]

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Stable of Horses

May 8, 2013

I spent part of today like I do many other days. I sat in a meeting where people were discussing technology and how to deploy it. It was a conversation that, while not above my head, had me swimming in daydream land. It wasn’t the first time this discussion had been had and certainly wouldn’t [...]

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iPad Carrying Gorillas

May 2, 2013

If all you have is a mobile strategy you’ve already failed! This was the slide I led off with in my presentation on Tuesday at the Tab Times Tablet Strategy event. Let’s be fair, everywhere you look you can’t miss some article screaming on how you need a mobile strategy, or a BYOD strategy, or [...]

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Digital Ether

April 16, 2013

This afternoon was a tough afternoon. Watching the scenes from Boston brought back memories for me of being at the World Trade Center on September 11th as the planes hit. It’s not exactly a pleasant memory for me nor is it something I openly share even when people know I was there. I was very [...]

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Throwing Contest

April 11, 2013

As my first three blog posts this week have been related to security I felt it was only fair that I continue this week with another one in the same vein. I participated in a tweet chat yesterday that was premised on the fact that mobile malware exists and what can you do to prevent [...]

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Being Eaten

April 10, 2013

After yesterday’s blog post on Eating Elephants, Alessandro Festa rightly pointed out that although we seem to have secured the data, we haven’t solved his refrigerator dilemma. To put it quite simply, the dilemma is represented by the fact that two people buy almost identical salads although one has nuts in it. They come in [...]

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Eating Elephants

April 9, 2013

I had a fun twitter conversation this morning that got a little bit heated, which is bound to happen when you mix security, identity and mobile along with an American, a Canadian, and an Italian. Alessandro Festa, the aforementioned Italian, wrote a very interesting blog post last night, another in his series of Bring Your [...]

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Sunburn

April 8, 2013

I spent this weekend like I do many weekends, at a soccer tournament for one of my daughters. It usually means at least 3 hours outside and a fair bit of fun. Being that it’s just the first week of April, it was still pretty cool and the high for the first day didn’t go [...]

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Cost or Value?

April 4, 2013

It never seems to matter these days. Whenever you have a conversation about mobile you will invariably end up talking about BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and COPE (Corporate Owned Personally Enabled) programs. It can turn into a debate about which is better, which one is easier to support, or which one invariably costs more. [...]