AI Momentum Summit – March 20th!

I’m presenting at the AI Momentum Summit on March 20th in Milwaukee. I’m presenting on “Building Your AI Use Case”, but if that isn’t interesting to you, there are many other hands-on topics. AI Momentum Summit 2025 – Milwaukee Tickets, Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite Join me! Nathan Lasnoski

Create value for your customers with data and the rest will fall behind it

We are in the third age of data. The first was full of preparing data with legacy data warehouses that struggled to provide value beyond surfacing reports about the past. The second was preoccupied with loading data into data lakes. The third needs to be built on outcomes that we are trying to achieve. Not […]

Five Things to Think About in 2025

This is my last newsletter of the year and with it I’m going to hit you with five themes that every tech leader is needing to consider in 2025. This past year has been a bit of a whirlwind to say the least, but many companies struggling but others doing really well. The momentum from […]

Product Development Maturity Curve

We know that technology is becoming part of the fabric of every business. A successful company integrates technology into their core business, making it a irreplaceable component of how it goes to market. In this discussion we’ll break down the maturity levels of each company and how technology changes the way it engages its customers. […]

7 Habits of Inspiring Tech Leaders: (7) Agent of People

The final habit of inspiring tech leaders may be the most important… to be an Agent of People. The best tech leaders lead human first. They create organizations that individuals and teams want to be part of. They create engaged, talented, and inspiring workplaces. They make people the best versions of themselves. There is no […]

7 Habits of Inspiring Tech Leaders: (6) Agent of Investment

Most IT leaders know that IT costs run around 3% of revenue for an average company. The legacy CIO will see their job as keeping the IT costs around that number. But… did you know that technology investment is actually INCREASING year over year? The reason it isn’t visible in the “3%” is that technology […]

Planning for 2022 Success for Appleton PM Circle

I presented to the Appleton PM circle on Planning for 2022 success. A great session with great people. We covered these topics: What it means to be a change agent What areas can you impact in your business Technology maturity curves Creating a plan with Horizon Planning Tech stack planning Skill development Bringing it all […]

Planning for 2022 Success: Live Edition

To kick off 2022 and to follow-up on a blog of the same name, I started the year with a video on planning for your 2022 success. In this video I talk about all the tremendous opportunities for business engagement in 2022 leveraging technology to drive your company forward. I talk about disruption, structure, and […]

Top Tech Leadership Priorities for 2022

In moments of transition often weak leaders freeze, unable to move or act until those around them move. The weak leader is unable to gather the team to move forward through the malaise and is challenged to reflect, think, and act. In contrast, the effective leader is able to use moments of transition to accomplish […]

Building a One Page Strategic Plan in PowerApps

So… we were working as a company to construct our One Page Strategic Plan. We’d used platforms before that had similar concepts but none of them integrated with Teams or any of the Microsoft ecosystem. I was not happy about implementing another walled garden for our executive team, so I set out to use some […]