Episodios

  • HS109: Is AI a Purchase or a Hire?

    HS109: Is AI a Purchase or a Hire?
    Aug 5 2025
    Is adding AI to your environment a software purchase? Or is it more like hiring an employee? Heavy Strategy’s John Burke and Johna Johnson debate whether AI should be treated as just another application you buy and use, or be handled like an employee you’re bringing on staff (complete with background and reference checks, training... Read more »
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    32 m
  • HS108: Keeping the (IT) House Clean to Avoid the Plague

    HS108: Keeping the (IT) House Clean to Avoid the Plague
    Jul 22 2025
    Whether it’s CNAME records pointing to dead endpoints or abandoned cloud storage buckets still mentioned in the makefile or Chef recipe, seemingly innocuous bits of infrastructure that don’t get cleaned up can turn into serious security threats. (Both of these examples are taken from real-life attacks, BTW). When and how and who within IT should... Read more »
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    24 m
  • HS107: Your (Late) New Years Resolution: Follow Your (Amended) Strategy

    HS107: Your (Late) New Years Resolution: Follow Your (Amended) Strategy
    Jul 1 2025
    Here we are, a bit more than halfway through the year. How’s your execution against your strategy going? Roiled by the economy? Disrupted by tariffs? Thrown off by staff retirements? If you built a proper technology strategy in the first place, driven by the business strategy, then no matter what is happening don’t ignore it,... Read more »
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    32 m
  • HS106: Planning for the Epochalypse

    HS106: Planning for the Epochalypse
    Jun 17 2025
    IT teams deal with technology lifecycle issues all the time–including Y2K, which enterprises across the world grappled with for years. The Epochalypse, or Year 2038 Problem, is similar. Specifically, some Linux systems’ date-time counters will go from positive to negative at a specific date in 2038, potentially wreaking havoc on embedded systems and any other... Read more »
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    28 m
  • HS105: How to Train Your Unicorn: Thoughts on Ops Architects

    HS105: How to Train Your Unicorn: Thoughts on Ops Architects
    Jun 3 2025
    You need someone to design your operations processes–or perhaps redesign them. That’s an Ops Architect. Should you take an ops person and train them up in architecture? Or an architect and train them up in operations? Do you even have that ops/engineer/architect organizational structure – and should you? Johna and John dive into this discussion... Read more »
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    27 m
  • HS104: How Long Should Your Planning Horizon Be?

    HS104: How Long Should Your Planning Horizon Be?
    May 20 2025
    How far ahead should you plan, and what things belong in your strategic plan? Conventional wisdom holds that a 3-year planning horizon is “about right”–but in a period of rapid technical and geopolitical change (such as we’re arguably in right now) does that go too far out, particularly when agile methodologies recommend shorter action plans... Read more »
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    29 m
  • 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