Episodios

  • HS103: Why IT Is Like Ultimate Frisbee

    HS103: Why IT Is Like Ultimate Frisbee
    May 6 2025
    It’s all well and good to develop a technology strategy, articulate and document the strategy, and agree (supposedly) on that strategy. But what do you do when one or more of the tech teams act in apparent opposition to the strategy? John and Johna discuss why this happens and what questions you need to ask... Read more »
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    26 m
  • HS102: IT’s Role In AI (Sponsored)

    HS102: IT’s Role In AI (Sponsored)
    Apr 29 2025
    AI can impact an enterprise in several ways: making individuals more productive, making products and services more effective, and making it easier for customers and partners to do business. IT plays a critical role in enabling AI to have these impacts. On today’s sponsored Heavy Strategy, Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn explains how to locate AI use... Read more »
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    41 m
  • HS101: Time for a Cybersecurity Spring Cleaning?

    HS101: Time for a Cybersecurity Spring Cleaning?
    Apr 22 2025
    Most organizations have a long list of security holes in the form of unpatched systems and other known but unresolved vulnerabilities. Is it time to hit the big PAUSE button and fix, patch, or mitigate all of that before we resume deploying new systems (and their accompanying risks)? Join us as we tear into whether... Read more »
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    32 m
  • HS100: Lead Without Lying: The (Radical) Strategy of Honesty

    HS100: Lead Without Lying: The (Radical) Strategy of Honesty
    Apr 8 2025
    Is it actually possible to run a team without lying? Steven Gaffney, author of the book, “Just Be Honest”, joins Johna and John to talk about why being honest is harder than it sounds–and how (and why) to do it anyway. Steven spends his career advising science and technology leaders about how to be more... Read more »
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    42 m
  • HS099: From CLI to CFO: Translating Complex Network Data into Clear Strategic and Financial Insights (Sponsored)

    HS099: From CLI to CFO: Translating Complex Network Data into Clear Strategic and Financial Insights (Sponsored)
    Apr 1 2025
    IT and network leaders need more than uptime—they need to know what their networks cost, what they deliver, and how future changes will impact the business. That’s where Netos comes in. CEO and founder Richard Foster joins Johna and John in a lively discussion to explore how Netos turns complex operational data into clear financial... Read more »
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    35 m
  • HS098: Just Following Orders?

    HS098: Just Following Orders?
    Mar 25 2025
    What do you do when your colleagues or senior leaders ask you to do something illegal? It’s hardly hypothetical; recent years have seen high-profile firings and convictions of CIOs and CISOs who’ve been ordered to break the law. John and Johna discuss steps that tech leaders can take if they’re put on the spot. Episode... Read more »
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    34 m
  • HS097: Build A Strategy, Not Just A Project Plan

    HS097: Build A Strategy, Not Just A Project Plan
    Mar 11 2025
    IT teams too often wrap a strategy statement around a basket of projects already in progress or known to be coming, rather than defining a strategy and then letting it spawn, guide, or absorb projects. On today’s Heavy Strategy we discuss whether IT teams have any alternative to this approach, given how much gets “thrown... Read more »
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    30 m
  • HS096: Corporate Foresight and How to Get It

    HS096: Corporate Foresight and How to Get It
    Feb 25 2025
    Someone needs to be scanning the horizon for the threats and opportunities that are distant for now–and they need to be able to turn that foresight into action. We welcome John Miranda of Intel for a lively discussion of how to look ahead, how to get folks to pay attention to the alerts you raise,... Read more »
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    40 m
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