Beer 30 with Damon Sanchez talking Customer Experience

I had the opportunity to sit down with Damon Sanchez and talk about the difference between User Experience (UX) and Customer Experience (CX). We talk about how understanding the customer journey is as important as understanding individual screens or interfaces. Great conversation, great topic, and great person.

Presenting on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence @ Microsoft Ignite

In addition to the Azure Governance and Best Practices session, I’ll also be presenting a session on a practitioners guide to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. I’ll be talking about the Human Difference, the practical impacts of AI, and how we can address concerns in our everyday actions. Also, check out my blog series on […]

Cloud Modernization’s Impact on Organizational Structure

The movement to the cloud is driving not only workload transformation but team transformation as well. A common question I’m asked is “how does the move to the cloud change my IT org structure?” The movement to the cloud is only one of the factors impacting the change of the IT org structure, while it […]

AI Maturity Assessment

Microsoft has launched an interesting (although not comprehensive) AI maturity assessment. It certainly has a good collection of things I’d think about when considering how to leverage AI in your organization. I’m impressed it asks questions about ethics and boldness in going down a path of using AI technologies in product development or business operations. […]

Top 10 Ways to Secure Your Azure Environment – Part 2

This is the second in a pair of posts on the most important actions to take to set up and maintain security in your Azure environment. This post picks up where the prior one left off in the list of 10 critical security concepts. (See the first five items here. Also, check out related content in […]

Ethics of AI – Chapter 5: AI Principles

Chapter 5: Considerations in Leveraging AI to Augment Humanity Editors Note: This post is a part of a series on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. With the impact of AI on the economy, business output, and life being substantial many organizations have formed to propose principles and frameworks to engaging. The following is a set of […]

Types of Friendships and Business Relationships

We all have friends in our lives, but how often have we taken a moment to think about the types of friends we have? Aristotle has given us an interesting model that is helpful to this day of three types of friendship, which are (1) friendships of utility, (2) friendships of pleasure, and (3) friendships […]

Beer 30 interview on Milwaukee Tech with Adam Gabornitz

In this episode of #Beer30, I chat with @AdamGabornitz on #mketech and why Milwaukee is a great place for a technology career! @MarquetteU @MSOE @UWM

This isn’t just relevant to Milwaukee though! If you love technology and love your city, you’re sure to find some good learnings here.

Recommendations for Anyone Getting Started in Technology (or starting again)

I have the pleasure of talking with individuals entering the technology field. There has never been a better time to have a career in technology and I’m happy to mentor or engage with anyone wanting to give it a shot. I thought I’d put together my top tips into a list that will help anyone […]

Featured in Madison Business Journal on Modern Desktop

I was recently in the greater Madison Business Journal talking about Modern Desktop and its impact on end user computing. I feel this shift is very important for businesses to understand and represents one of the most significant changes in the end user computing space in the last 20 years. A few key points: Shifting […]

Nathan Lasnoski

Technology is at the heart of the transformation of modern society and business. I engage in innovation, artificial intelligence, disruption, and ethics under the lense that we only do this because people matter.

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