Steve Andriole

There’s never enough money. I am tired of hearing this complaint. Of course there’s never enough money. Everyone wants more money – which is why there’s never enough. US companies are better at cutting costs than they are at growing their businesses, so there’s less money in our companies to do anything meaningful. The government […]

Well, it’s all the rage. Publications like Business 2.0, Fast Company and even Business Week are all writing about Web 2.0, the new Net and the next digital gold rush. What the hell is going on now? Is this another bubble? Will Web 2.0 companies crash and burn like their parents? I’ve thought a lot […]

Our technology solutions are comprised of three parts: hardware, software and services. It seems to me that we have a pretty good read on where hardware and services will come from over the next ten years or so, but a lot of alternatives when it comes to software. Hardware will be produced by a small […]

Everyone – or most everyone – likes to think positively about the new year. Isn’t that where new year’s resolutions come from? But what about the glass-is-half-empty crowd? How do they ring in the new year? They worry. Here are some candidates intended to bring everyone down as we begin another tough year in the […]

There are five alignment flavors for us to consider, but let’s remember that we don’t get to pick just one – we have to taste them all. I am going crazy talking to people about business technology alignment – people who think about alignment as conversations between planners and technologists, or meetings between marketing and […]

There’s not much one can’t find, analyze, or purchase on the Web. The past 10 years has seen the evolution of the Web from a passive repository of information to a proactive pusher of user-generated content and an enabler of personal and professional transactions. Educational curricula, music, films, surveys, customer service portals, travel planning, job […]

I recently completed some research on the role that Boards of Directors play in technology governance. I posted an online survey to determine what the state of the practice actually was. The results were pretty amazing -– to say the least. More than 50 senior technology executives responded to the survey. The findings benchmark the […]

A friend of mine runs a company that provides remote back-up and recovery. A very nice little company that makes money and provides a valuable service to its customers. About a year ago they piloted their technology at my university. The results were great. They quoted us a price of around $14 per month per […]

Everyone’s been complaining about Sarbanes-Oxley and other government induced compliance formulae for several years now (everybody, of course, except the auditors and consultants who make a ton of money on compliance and related activities). Technology has become part of the compliance process in some very important ways. Let’s talk about the role that IT governance […]

How much do senior (non-technology) executives know about IT? Not much, I would argue – and – here’s the worst part: they know less and less every year. In fact, I believe that senior executives know much less about IT today than they did 20 years ago. How is that possible? After all, IT spending […]