Saturday, January 24, 2009

An exciting week for Ada Business Technology

It has been an interesting week in West Michigan for me (and very little snow). I had the opportunity to attend two technology sessions and visit several great organizations in the Grand Rapids area.

One of the technical sessions was a discussion by CIO's of major enterprises discussing the future of IT at their organizations. These organizations continue to prosper during this challenging time and they believed that this was due, in part, the their respective organizations reliance on IT as a strategic asset. Additionally each CIO stated that they expect their teams to understand their businesses and use technology, not for technology's sake but as a tool to better their organizations. To me, this re-enforces the corporate theme of "Understanding the Business of Business" .

This week my article entitled Master of disaster: Basic primer offers step-by-step recovery planning for the SMB was published by Manufacturing Business Technology.

We are preparing a presentation for ARMA entitled “Geek Talk 101 – communicating RM concepts in an IT language” that will be given on February 5th at Farmer/Foremost in Caledonia.

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