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36. How backwards is your IT thinking? Process First, Systems Second, and…

How should IT talk to people?
Ryan Holland, Proven Technology Leader (no title needed) and Phil Howard discuss:
Office hours after hours
Firewalls stuck in customs
The IT success formula
Big wins means baby stepping first
How to approach key stakeholders…

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35. IT Directors either impact the business or sit back like peons.

On this episode Marcus Merchant shows how an IT director can take a business from 30% efficiency to 70%+
…and how he got a job in IT with no knowledge at all
started drinking from the firehose.
Why never implement version 1.0?
How to collect important …

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34. IT Leaders, if you can’t do this… you’re done!

Are your doing this?  Can you do this? … and what is the #1 thing that will make or break your future as an IT LEADER?  
Lee Weisenberger & Phil Howard discuss….
 
 
Immediate results in 6 months or less
Small Pilots & Robots (not necessarily) replac…

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33. UnSelfish IT Living in The Ultimate Cost Center

On this Episode Shawn Granger and Phil Howard discuss:
Why Data Matters
Unselfishly Stuck in a Cost Center
Line Itemizing IT
Changing the Culture of “Let’s Dip into the IT budget.”
Fixing Broken Process 
RFPs are Dumb
Coyote Fear Mongering GIS apps
#itle…

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32. From Getting Shot at in Iraq & Afghanistan to 1.5 Million in Ransomware

Joshua Stroud and Phil Howard discuss… the journey from 1 tour in Iraq to 1 tour in Afghanistan and getting shot at to helpdesk technician, consultant, and to IT Leadership.
Is your businesses that will have to close down in 6 months if you experience …

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31. Marine Deploys Cisco Call Manager in 1999

John Larsen, manager of Enterprise Infrastructure for CHS and Phil Howard, managing partner CNSG discuss:
Getting thrown a Cisco Call manager and told to deploy it in 1999
Managing internet connectivity on Tugboats
IT Farming for Farmers 
What a Co-Op is…

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30. CISO… The Job You Can Only Fail At

Christophe Foulon (CISSP) and Phil Howard (Managing Partner CNSG) discuss:
Booting from DOS
Security Burnout by Choice
The only job that you can only fail at
Average Lifespan of a CISO
Burnout Solutions
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29. Spear-Tipping Your Career by Making an Impact | CTO Dipul Patel

Phil Howard and Dipul “Dip” Patel discuss:
Disabling Missiles and Multiple Kill Vehicles with Nuclear Warheads on Ballistic Trajectories.
Technology Minded People Doing Business.
How to find and know good people with talent.
The Different between making …

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28. IBM why are you building servers that last long, don’t break, and are harder to hack?

Phil Howard and Paul Olson discuss:
IBM stuff (like AS400s) never breaking.
Security surrounding your IMBi services.
Servers that don’t go down
Open Source software development
Something amazing…. “BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY”
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27. IT in Different Languages

Jon Wadsworth & Phil Howard discuss IT around the world.
– IT enablement
– IT Dreaming
– What an awesome world could look like before accounting gets involved.
– Speaking IT in China without knowing any Chinese.
– Rolling out Active Directory around the …

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