There is perhaps no area within database administration more time-consuming or fraught with difficulty as the need to accurately shepherd the varied and ongoing vectors of change across an ...

A configuration-management database serves as a central repository of information that documents changes to a network. However, some organizations try to track too many things in one place. When that ...

When you’ve been involved in data management as long as I have, things are definitely bound to change. And things have changed, quite a lot, in fact. Back when I started in IT, IMS was the primary ...

In an August 2004 Computerworld.com article titled “An Introduction to Visible Ops,” Kevin Behr, Gene Kim and George Spafford described their methodology for implementing the best practices found in ...

There’s an adage that says change is the only constant. Still, every IT executive knows constant change wreaks havoc on a complex IT environment. In fact, IDC and Gartner report that 70% to 80% of ...

Change Strategist & Managing Partner at NSP & Co. I'm passionate about sharing change management strategies for our evolving business world. Organizations today are navigating a sea of unprecedented ...