The UltraTech Zone

Lately, I've been playing various medieval build/conquest games on Facebook and other places.  My favorites are Knighthood and Tribal Wars. (PLEASE NOTE: I am especially interested in getting some vassals in Knighthood, so if you're interested in playing even a little, be sure to visit my kingdom.) I don't know about you, but I don't ...

  As I think about it, the title is probably misleading, because being a Technology Manager with change-agent responsibility is not the same as being a Technology Change Agent. In my particular case, I'm not looking to change the technology, necessarily.  In fact, I'm pretty happy with the basic technology infrastructure, at least in ...

Does fulfilling your regulatory compliance requirements actually lead you to be more secure?  Will your organization automatically attain compliance by pursuing a strict regimen of security practices? In short, is the quest to be compliant complementary, unconnected or mutually exclusive with the quest to be secure? This is the heart of a ...

Here's an interesting piece from the New York Times about the US strategy in Iraq.  My particular interest is with the following excerpt: WASHINGTON: The debate that will engulf Washington and much of the United States this week centers on a question that lurks at the intersection of war strategy and the personality of ...

This month in CIO Magazine is a very interesting article on Change Management which points out that truly innovative companies value discipline as much, if not more, than they do freedom and flexibility of execution. And the difference between those organizations that had high levels of innovation vs. those that didn't is ...

The tech news is all abuzz about the announcement that Microsoft and Novell are working together on product integration, including integration between Windows and Linux technologies. Several people have already commented that this is a strategic move by Microsoft to combat Oracle's Linux play, and also to somewhat blunt the threat the Linux poses ...

The tech news is all abuzz about the announcement that Microsoft and Novell are working together on product integration, including integration between Windows and Linux technologies. Several people have already commented that this is a strategic move...(read more)

An article I read on ZDNet this week laments that fact that politicians as a group are woefully clueless about technology issues, yet keep pressing ahead with projects that are highly dependent on technology such as National ID programs. As some of the comments indicate, that lack of understanding is not limited to technology.  On the ...

Over the past few days, I have seen at least two posts or articles on a subject I've been meaning to write about for quite some time, now.  The first one I saw was by Rob Howard, and although it deals mostly with software development, it struck a chord with me.  Today, I saw a post on Kevin Stone's blog which referenced a ...

http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1397,1913188,00.asp Moore's new book, Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution, just published by Portfolio, argues that innovation by itself is not enough. Innovation also requires an investment strategy that puts your resources where they count, and a people ...