IT management is much more than 'a necessary evil'. Managing the different ICT resources that uses a contemporary organization serves over the running of the organization. Poor management not only makes for bad act, but can cause additional damage afterwards.
The Dutch police is a recent - and another - example of problems by management negligence. The reorganization whereby police regions were abolished, resulted in domain changes which the old domain names expire. Third parties may claim to domain names and thus misdirected mails catch . Also, internal emails so. Broke management avenges itself sooner or later. What do you think?
ServiceNow, American provider of IT service management in the cloud, in the year 2016 achieved a turnover of 1.39 billion dollars. That's an increase of 38 percent compared with 2015 (turnover: $ 1 billion). However, still the software writes red figures: 451.8 million, considerably more than the net loss of 198.4 million dollars in 2015.
The increased loss is among other things due to a non-recurring item of $ 270 million in legal fees. That's because of patent settlements in abuse cases that were filed by BMC and HPE. In addition, had ServiceNow compensation for equity programs as well as a number of charges included in the books. Gross profit moreover increased from 667.1 million to 991.8 million.
Despite the increased net loss CEO Frank Slootman 2016 calls a successful year. "The company is in full swing." 2017 ServiceNow expects revenue between 1.82 and $ 1.85 billion, an increase of over 30 percent.
Fake news is now being already dot on the nomination list for word of the year 2017. It is remarkable that fake news is able to decide to leave the EU or do a whole nation decide to elect an underdog in one of the most powerful positions in the world a country.
It seems something of lately, but actually fake news of all times. Chapter 1 Sun Tzu's "The Art of War (500 BC) is a large section devoted to deception (or fake news) and it is no secret that sometimes inexplicable gains were driven by a simple article or rumor in the financial world.
generic invitations
But closer to house it also happens. Are you working in it? Then you know the phenomenon of a mailbox fills up with LinkedIn messages. Generic approach, in which the sender hopefully has taken the trouble to put your name above it and spell it properly. Messages full of 'fake news' in the form of pledges, promises and stories. Anything to get you only so far as to take the call.
I notice the 'fake news effect' often in conversations I feed myself with candidates. At start you often notice that the picture hung up about their first steps in the labor market are far from reality. From an employer's perspective, I am concerned short-term thinking. Personally, I believe in putting down realistic expectations and goals of both sides. The professional must be open and honest lie about his strengths and weaknesses. The employer open in what they can do with the professional in order to develop weaknesses and what realistically the possibilities to properly utilize the strengths.
Starting AI specialist manager?
Some time ago I had a starting candidate at the table who had a background in artificial intelligence (AI). Once super smart guy with the technique just dripping from every pore. A person who is likely to be able to develop a robot in an attic. This guy showed me that he had an offer on bag to become a department manager in a commercial technology.
It's a cliché, but someone who is conceptually and thus has the potential to be a specialist in his field, is not necessarily suitable to control people. Even in the latest models of cooperation is necessary from a leader to talk to people on their function and responsibilities. If the same candidate to me then says in the same interview that he would rather not look up confrontations, goes all the way loose on technical issues and feels more comfortable as part of a group in which he just can do his job well, "then you're not directly with someone on table that would feel very comfortable in such a leading role.
Of course people can change and you have to give them the opportunity to develop themselves and grow. But I already had an hour's talk with the starter and now already had an idea that this would be quite a challenge. Especially since here he himself probably would be very unhappy. When I then asked him how he was looking here now against it - in light of what he talked about his personal qualities - I saw immediately relaxed his gaze. In fact, he thought it was a strange match that was made for him. But yeah, it was on sale, and they had already called three times behind him. So then it had to be achievable?
mismatch
Our arrangement of an hour has eventually become two and a half hours. I am that day become enormously wiser about artificial intelligence. Also what now is and is not really feasible in terms of technology and future developments. In 'fake news' about ai stairs I not so fast. Eventually, we came together to the conclusion that we as a company could not offer him the career that suited him.
Ultimately, I think I can give him enough about realistic expectations for his career and development. This week I got a message from him on LinkedIn. He eventually ended up at the University of Austin in Texas of all places and there is the lead developer in their AI team. He does what he does best in a place he had not previously expected.
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