Date: Jan 01/06/14 11:18 AM Subject: [BBLISA-announce] BBLISA January Meeting This web (2014-01-08) From: "John P. Rouillard" Hi all: Thanks to the 25 or so people who showed up for Decembers talk on "Project Managers as Value Role in IT" with Cathleen Bonner. I will be getting the slides up soon. Our January talk will be: Title: Fragile Ops Speaker: Patrick Cable The role of the central IT department is changing. No longer are users happy inadequate IT organizations that create solutions that aren't fully baked out. More executives just want to "throw some cloud on it." Given the difference of user expectations between internal services and what the outside appears to offer -- can you blame them? This talk focuses on how IT lost its edge, and how IT organizations can work towards being more human-focused and ultimately regarded as business game-changers and not just a cost center. Patrick Cable is an infrastructure system administrator at a local research institute. He's currently working on managing a network used in hardware design and verification. He also provides guidance to other internal groups about best practices in system management. Prior to his current job, he operated an IT consulting business that worked with a variety of clients - including small and large businesses, and municipalities. to be held on January 8 2014 at MIT building E-51, Room 149 at 7:00 pm. I hope to see you there. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard =========================================================================== My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions. _______________________________________________ bblisa-announce mailing list bblisa-announce@bblisa.org http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa-announce