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DeepakSethSpeak: February 2015
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Follow me on Twitter @SetDeep. Thursday, February 26, 2015. Information Security Challenges: Conversation with a Fortune 500 CISO. Had an interesting conversation with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a major Fortune 500 corporation regarding Information Security a few days ago. The freewheeling conversation spanned many dimensions of the Information Security universe. Information Security- The Public Posture. Information Security and The Internet of Things. One more in a long list), each...
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DeepakSethSpeak: Good Deeds Gone Bad: Poor Self Rewards for Good Behavior
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Follow me on Twitter @SetDeep. Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Good Deeds Gone Bad: Poor Self Rewards for Good Behavior. The HBR article Reusable Bags Make People Buy Organic—and Junk: An Interview with Uma Karmarkar. Makes interesting reading. The same study is also quoted in a recent Economist article: Eco-waverers: When people feel good about themselves, they do bad things. S ( @uma karma. Another point is that while the limited facts about the study shared in the interview indicate a "correlation". It coul...
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DeepakSethSpeak: April 2015
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Follow me on Twitter @SetDeep. Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Good Deeds Gone Bad: Poor Self Rewards for Good Behavior. The HBR article Reusable Bags Make People Buy Organic—and Junk: An Interview with Uma Karmarkar. Makes interesting reading. The same study is also quoted in a recent Economist article: Eco-waverers: When people feel good about themselves, they do bad things. S ( @uma karma. Another point is that while the limited facts about the study shared in the interview indicate a "correlation". It coul...
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DeepakSethSpeak: Selling to the CIO: Think SOLUTION!
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Follow me on Twitter @SetDeep. Friday, June 5, 2015. Selling to the CIO: Think SOLUTION! I hung my sales hat a few years ago and transitioned into the world of IT (Moved over to the dark side. Or the bright side. Depends on your perspective). As I interact with friends and peers on either side of the Sales/IT "divide" one issue keeps cropping up all the time -. What's the best way to "sell" to a CIO? Well, for one I tell them the crux lies in the SOLUTION. And what exactly could be your SOLUTION. Never h...
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DeepakSethSpeak: September 2014
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Follow me on Twitter @SetDeep. Thursday, September 18, 2014. Is Your Business Ready For The Self-Driving Car? Is Your Business Ready For the Self-Driving Car? In my comments published in the Harvard Business Review. Last year I had opined that failure to recognize platform disrupters (like the self-driving car) can be very detrimental to corporate health and existence. However, most such Disruptions can be prevented from having a Big Bang effect. By smart companies by:. Drive thru's and Drive Thru Foods ...
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DeepakSethSpeak: Why is Enterprise Architecture sitting out the DIGITAL party?
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Follow me on Twitter @SetDeep. Wednesday, February 11, 2015. Why is Enterprise Architecture sitting out the DIGITAL party? Jason Bloomberg's post Invite Enterprise Architecture to the Digital Party. Makes an interesting read. His essential premise is that Enterprise Architects in most organizations are missing the bus as far as staying engaged with; and relevant to digital initiatives is concerned. This is a shame since " DIGITAL transformation. Is the biggest challenge faced by CIOs and " Go Digital.
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DeepakSethSpeak: June 2014
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Follow me on Twitter @SetDeep. Monday, June 30, 2014. O Enterprise Architecture Where Art Thou? Does your Enterprise Architecture Organization have the ability to respond to disruptive forces? Gartner defines Enterprise Architecture (EA). A discipline for proactively and holistically leading enterprise responses to disruptive forces by identifying and analyzing the execution of change toward desired business vision and outcomes. By Larry Downes and Paul F. Nunes, Harvard Business Review, March 2013).
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DeepakSethSpeak: October 2014
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Follow me on Twitter @SetDeep. Wednesday, October 22, 2014. VUCA - a four-letter word. How does your company plan to deal with it? Thinks smart companies would need to do to deal with VUCA : a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous world:. Today’s organizations must create regular, systematic. Mechanisms to accelerate the pace at which they. Discover sources of surprise. Any potential source of change won’t be coming with. The usual places. And there won’t be just one. 3 Confront Your Biases. Compan...
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DeepakSethSpeak: Information Security Challenges: Conversation with a Fortune 500 CISO
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Follow me on Twitter @SetDeep. Thursday, February 26, 2015. Information Security Challenges: Conversation with a Fortune 500 CISO. Had an interesting conversation with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a major Fortune 500 corporation regarding Information Security a few days ago. The freewheeling conversation spanned many dimensions of the Information Security universe. Information Security- The Public Posture. Information Security and The Internet of Things. One more in a long list), each...
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DeepakSethSpeak: Enterprise Architecture: Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!
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Follow me on Twitter @SetDeep. Tuesday, February 17, 2015. This is probably the single most important aspect of an architect's job. Fundamentally, architects are in the role of communicator. After they establish and formalize a solution, they need to communicate that solution as well as its importance and value to stakeholders throughout the organization. These words of wisdom come from " 10 Key Skills Architects Must Have to Deliver Value. And "Not Communicating the Impact". And I would not be surprised...