Category: Corporate Culture
Bonuscide: How Toxic Bonus Schemes Destroy Organisations
bonuscide noun Definition of bonuscide: Bonuscide is a term used to describe incentive schemes that progressively poisons an organisation by ensuring the flow of discretionary pay is non does not serve the organisations goals. These schemes can be observed in two main ways, the loss of key staff or the reduction in client/customer base. Bonuscide […]
Read more →Why Least Privilege Security Is a Lie: 3 Root Causes
In technology, there is a tendency to solve a problem badly by using gross simplification, then come up with a catchy one liner and then broadcast this as doctrine or a principle. Nothing ticks more boxes in this regard, than the principle of least privileges. The ensuing enterprise scale deadlocks created by a crippling implementation […]
Read more →The Triplication Paradigm: Why Removing Duplication Fails
Introduction In most large corporates technology will typically report into either finance or operations. This means that it will tend to be subject to cultural inheritance, which is not always a good thing. One example of where the cultural default should be challenged is when managing IP duplication. In finance or operations duplication rarely yields any benefits […]
Read more →Public Cloud Migration: Why Lift-and-Shift Strategies Fail
The cloud is hot…. not just a little hot, but smokin hot!! Covid is messing with the economy, customers are battling financially, the macro economic outlook is problematic, vendor costs are high and climbing and security needs more investment every year. What on earth do we do??!! I know…. lets start a crusade – lets […]
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Corporate Tech Models: Engineer-Led vs Manager-Led
There are two fundamental ways to run technology inside your company (and various states in-between)
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