Rob Enderle

How to Be a Winner: 5 Keys to Achieving Big Goals If there was ever a company that should at least consider that it has a CEO problem, it should be HP, now HPE. Over the last 16 years, it has had five CEOs, four of which were effectively fired. You’d think the lesson there […]

We tend to focus a great deal more on blame rather than root cause analysis and this is largely why we are really good at flaming people that make mistakes but not very good at mitigating or avoiding making them in the first place. Let’s take Hillary Clinton’s email server. There is a huge push […]

6 Ways to Design and Implement Effective Mobile Enterprise Apps The Microsoft Surface Phone is one of the most highly anticipated phones coming to market and it isn’t even expected until 2017. The most recent rumor has it sporting an Intel Atom X3 processor and the first no-compromise implementation of Continuum, enabling it to work […]

Nine Email Scandals that Underscore the Need for Proper Archiving Here in the U.S., we are in the midst of the insanity called “a presidential election.” It seems as though the Democratic Party is trying to commit suicide by email. First, we had the unsecure private email server with no tracking, which was most likely […]

Securing AD for Hybrid Cloud Environments While I was at BlackBerry’s Security Summit, I spent some time at the Microsoft Azure booth. I don’t think we fully get what makes Microsoft very different from Amazon and Google at the moment. At scale, it is likely the only company offering a cloud solution that is truly […]

5 Steps for Proactive Cyber Risk Management I’m at the BlackBerry Security Summit this week, listening to the unusual keynote by BlackBerry Executive Chairman and CEO John Chen, who, like me, is an extemporaneous speaker. That tends to be a bit more fun than the more common scripted talk, but it can roll off the […]

Navigating Your Way Through an IT Road Map I spent the last few days at Cisco Live, Cisco’s customer event, and C-Scape, its analyst event. At both, I had a lot of one-on-ones and walked away with a better sense of what is working well at Cisco, and what is not working so well. I […]

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading This week, I’m at C-Scape, an analyst-focused part of Cisco Live (its big customer event this year in Las Vegas). Zorawar Biri Singh, CTO and SVP, Cloud Services & Platforms, set the stage with a talk on strategy, a topic that puts everything else into context. […]

How to Protect Your Organization from Ransomware I’m getting kind of tired of reading that BlackBerry is getting out of the hardware business; BlackBerry isn’t getting out of the hardware business. It stands alone as the only smartphone company exclusively focused on business, security and traditional communication. Until someone else steps up to meet this […]

I’ve shared that I’ve been in law enforcement and I ran a field audit organization for IBM. Most parts of performing an audit aren’t a great deal of fun but doing security audits, email audits and expense report audits were the great dessert after an otherwise largely unpalatable meal. This is because, with a security […]

CIOs: How to Get Your Teams to the Next Level There is one quality that I think defines most successful executives: the ability to learn from mistakes. It seems to me that this is something that gets weeded out of executives as they advance, and I don’t think that’s a good thing. One of the […]

5 Tips to Successfully Plan for IT Modernization When it comes to CEOs, we do very little ranking on job competence. Instead, we mostly focus on salary and benefits and lament that, as a group, they are overpaid. A CEO, however, is the face of the company and, unlike almost any other company job, CEOs […]