Dr. Jim Anderson is proud to announce the publication of his latest book: “Making The Jump: How To Land Your Dream Job When You Get Out Of College!“

Everyone needs goals. As an IT Leader, it’s going to be your responsibility to help your team set both team and individual goals. Although at first this sounds pretty straightforward, in practice it often turns out to be a bit tricky. The most important question that you’re going to have to answer is which way do you want to go about setting goals: top-down or bottom-up?
The Top-Down Approach
Say hello to “Big Brother” – he’s going to be setting the goals for you and your team. The top-down approach to goal …

Dr. Jim Anderson presented the keynote address at the first annual Cloud Architecture Symposium that is was put on by Software Architecture Symposiums International. The conference was held on Friday, May 18th, 2012. Dr. Anderson’s cloud computing presentation was titled “How To Change The World In 1,825 Days”.

Dr. Jim Anderson takes a look at just exactly who is better at multitasking: men or women IT managers.

A lot has been written recently about the next generation of workers that is in the process of entering IT departments right now (I’ve done my part!) However, what’s been missing is a fundamental understanding of what an IT Leader is supposed to do once they are there.
Ron Alsop who writes for the Wall Street Journal has taken some time to study what this arrival means for all of us and he’s written a book with his answers in it called The Trophy Kids Grow Up: How the Millennial Generation …

So we all know that Tiger Woods is a fantastic golfer. However, do you think that he’d be any good at running an IT department? The answer, somewhat surprisingly, is that yes, he probably would do a good job. The reason is that there is a lot of similarity between being an excellent athlete and being a top-notch IT manager.
Graham Jones is the founder of a company called Lane4 which uses studies of professional athletes to help managers do a better job of managing. One of the interesting things that …

Dr. Jim Anderson explains why there are some problems that an IT department just can’t solve — because they are wicked problems.

Changing To A New Job In The Same Company Can Be Difficult
Times of change can be difficult for everyone, including IT Leaders. We all know how hard it can be to lose your job – in fact I think that we’ve probably either experienced it or have friends who have gone through it. What this means is that we all have a basic understanding of what to do if it happens. But what if you don’t lose you job, it just changes on you. What do you do then?

Dr. Jim Anderson has uncovered a problem that IT managers need to do something about — they don’t know how to professionally network!

We all deal with problems that flare up at work, but some people do a better job than others. In fact, some people deal with workplace problems so often and do such a good job of dealing with them that they get awards, bonuses, and eventually promoted.