By day I am a change and project management consultant; helping clients to successfully rollout and gain adoption of new processes and technologies. This can present challenges, but it is always rewarding. A new responsibility that I have is to migrate our consulting company, Expressworks, from an on-prem environment to [...]
Having just attended the insiderthreat Summit last month I was surprised at how much focus was on identifying behavioral characteristics of malicious insider threats. Don’t get me wrong, proactively identifying malicious insiders is a critical part of an Insider Threat Program, but I believe that you also must consider the [...]
You may remember the “I Love You” virus which struck back in May 2010. It is estimated that the virus cost us US$5.5- US$8.7 billion in damages worldwide and US$15 billion to remove. You would think that five years later we would have learned to be more cautious, but just [...]
When I speak with IT security professionals, the number one challenge that they face is how to get upper management more involved. How do you motivate them to make cyber security a personal matter? The truth, show them why and how they are the prime target of cyber theft. Executive [...]
“This is one piece of the puzzle that we rarely think about.” My colleague and I just finished presenting at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Security Control Oversight & Update Training (CSCOUT) conference. This might seem an unusual place for a behavioral change management practitioner, but the topic [...]
Expressworks consultants have one goal: Take the pain points out of the sometimes-perplexing SharePoint. “We’re the people side of SharePoint. We focus on SharePoint adoption,” said Expressworks Change Management Consultant Liz Jagla. “How do you get the value out of the solution you’ve deployed? And that actually starts from the [...]
Warning: this post compares governance to partying… proceed at your own risk! As expected, Microsoft had several exciting announcements at Ignite, including unveiling their evolving Office 365 Groups capability. Groups shift the focal point of sites from a physical “town square” metaphor – where everyone gathers around a central piazza [...]
Standing in front of the president of the company, I couldn’t believe what he just asked me, “Can you put computers into all of our restaurants in less than twelve months?” Much later in my career, I learned that the best answer was a soft and fuzzy non-answer that would [...]
I returned last week from the SharePoint Fest conference in Washington, DC, energized and even more enthusiastic about the challenge of SharePoint adoption. I met many wonderful people who are working really hard to spread the word about what SharePoint can do for their organizations, and who reinforced that our [...]
Let’s face it, consultants love complexity. As relentless problem solvers, we’re wired to design solutions that address all the nuances of a critical business issue. When technology is part of the solution, it’s even more tempting to address as many problems as possible. After all, systems can be configured, coded [...]