Bridging Business & IT
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
S3 Ep9 Brent Session 2 Part 2
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
These podcasts are dedicated to bridging the gap between business & IT. Each episode looks at different aspects of this relationship as we explore...
S3 Ep8 Brent Session 2 Part 1
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
These podcasts are dedicated to bridging the gap between business & IT. Each episode looks at different aspects of this relationship as we explore...
S3 Ep7: A Conversation with the CIOs of Marriott, IRS, FDA and JPL Part 2
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
But we're talking to just one man. Today is the first part of our conversation with a uniquely accomplished IT professional, Jim Rinaldi. Over Ji...
S3 Ep6: A Conversation with the CIOs of Marriott, IRS, FDA and JPL Part 1
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
But we're talking to just one man. Today is the first part of our conversation with a uniquely accomplished IT professional, Jim Rinaldi. Over Ji...
S3 Ep 5: Nalin Vail Part 2
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is part II of a conversation with Nalin Vahil. Nalin is a professional Sales leader who has worked at some of the biggest brands in Silicon Valle...
S3 Ep4: Nalin Vahil Part 1
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This wide ranging conversation with Nalin Vahil Part 1 spans Dan and Nalin's history of friendship and Nalin's career history. With parents ...
S3 Ep3: 2022 PMI Global Summit Presentation - The Biggest Constraint in IT Projects is the Human Brain
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In December, 2022 the Project Management Institute held their Global Summit Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada . Of the more than 250 talks and break out...
S3 Ep2: A Candid Look at the Road from College to Tech VC and PE Partner: Part II
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you're in the tech sector and looking for investment funding, it a good idea to understand a little bit about the people you're pitching....
S3 Ep1: A Candid Look at the Road from College to Tech VC and PE Partner: Part I
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After an unexpected hiatus, we’re back at it. If you're in the tech sector and looking for investment funding, it really helps to understand a...
S2 Ep 4 - Society for Information Management Seminar
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a little different. In late 2021 Dave was asked to conduct a seminar for the New Jersey chapter of the Society of Information Manageme...
S2 Ep 3 Agile Epiphanies at a $41B Company
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We were very fortunate today to have Barb Mastrianni, AVP and Senior Program Manager for the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, Inc. Barb shares th...
S2 E2: IT Product Management
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Jeffrey Sherow. Jeff has spent a long career at the intersection of business and technology. He started out with Andersen Consu...
S2 E1: Four IT Perspectives: Public, Private, Customer & Vendor
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re talking to Joyce Hunter, former CIO of the USDA and currently CEO of Vulcan Enterprises. Joyce brings a long and storied career full of ...
S1 E10: Negotiating IT Agreements
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is with Dan Kelly, founder and CEO of The Negotiator Guru. Dan is the person we have to thank for our podcast as he was the one who origi...
S1 E9: Data, Analytics & Reporting
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Moore (no, not 007) is our guest today. Roger currently teaches Analytics at the University of Chicago where he’s also an alum of their MBA pr...
S1 E8: Ethical EQ in IT Project Management
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest in this episode is Jomo Starke, Director of Innovation at Canton & Company. Jomo’s 30-plus year tech career started with developing vi...
S1 E7: Nestles, SAP & the Greater Good
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined today by Ray Weale, currently COO of IDMerit and formerly Director of Digital Innovation at Nestle. Ray helped lead the global unificat...
S1 E6: Five Ground Rules for Every Tech Team
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode we talked about how a CIO (or IT leader) needs to prepare their business counterparts for their roles and responsibilities in an u...
S1 E5: Five Things to Share With the Business Before the Project Starts
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode shares five things that the tech team needs to share with business executives, project sponsor(s), process owners and subject matter expe...
S1 E4 Part 2: The Solution - The Business Execution Lifecycle
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of this episode builds on the foundation of part 1 and is dedicated to examining the details within each of the four stages and twelve steps of...
S1 E4 Part 1: The Solution - The Business Execution Lifecycle
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode introduces a simple solution to bridge the gap between everything the business knows and what they communicate to the IT project team. We...
S1 E3 Part 2: The Cause - Our Brain Doesn’t Work the Way We Thought
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part two continues where part one leaves off by attempting to explain—as well as a non-scientist can—seven unconscious and uncontrollable ways our...
S1 E3 Part 1: The Cause - Our Brain Doesn’t Work the Way We Thought
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our entire approach to running IT projects is based on an unspoken assumption that is so deeply engrained in our culture it’s treated as a given. Th...
S1 E2: The Biggest Problem with IT Projects
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We take a deep dive into the nature of the divide between business and IT. We lay out our research on the frequency, costs and cause of roughly 75% of...
S1 E1: Welcome to Bridging Business & IT
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Introduction to a journey and your hosts. A father and son tech team sets out to explore the biggest challenge and most persistent problem in business...