Top 10 Mistakes Companies Make Getting Started with Azure: #9 – Failure to Retrain or Restructure Existing Employees

Last time, we covered the need for a company adoption strategy in your Azure implementation journey. Here’s another roadblock you have to get past: your employees’ familiarity with your prior ways of doing things. Implementing changes without taking into consideration the need to retrain and restructure your current work dynamics can easily lead to trouble—or, […]

Top 10 Mistakes Companies Make Getting Started with Azure: #10 – Failing to Define a Company Adoption Strategy

In this new blog series, I will take you through a test drive of the Microsoft Azure environment and discuss routes that have put companies in the ditch during navigation and implementation—and, more importantly, how to avoid them. Whether you are brand new to Azure or your journey is already underway, these ideas will […]

TECH Talk: Sustained vs. Disruptive Innovation

In this TECH Talk I discuss the difference between sustained vs. disruptive innovation using theories developed by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen. In this talk I discuss how companies are affected by disruptive innovation and how a successful company may actually need to develop both.

Beer 30: Evolution of How We Work

I recently recorded a Beer 30 talk with Drew Madelung on the evolution of how we work. We talk about how technology has created accessibility, changed how information is used to understand business processes, and how modern communication works.

TECH Talk: Building a Cloud Migration Workstream

In this TECH Talk, I talk about how an organization can craft a cloud migration workstream to take advantage of public cloud capabilities. This aligns to an organization migrating significant portions of their business to the public cloud, or those just deploying new applications there. This is a must watch for any CIO wanting to properly organize how they attack the public cloud ecosystem.

TECH Talk: Leveraging an Innovation Program to Reinvent Your Business

This is a TECH talk on leveraging an innovation program to drive invention and disruption within a business model. This talk discusses not just the creative aspects of innovation, but why a program’s discipline creates powerful outcomes.

TECH Talk: Driving Highly Engaged Employees

I recently recorded a TECH talk on driving highly engaged employees. The intention of this was to help companies understand how they can leverage their “WHY” to drive their organization toward new heights.

Why “work hard, play hard” is a terrible company motto

A few weeks ago we sat down as a leadership team and looked at the values of our company. We had put them together roughly 15 years ago and we were interested in the extent to which they needed to be updated. I was surprised by how little we needed to update the values and […]

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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