Épisodes

  • HS105: How to Train Your Unicorn: Thoughts on Ops Architects

    HS105: How to Train Your Unicorn: Thoughts on Ops Architects
    Jun 3 2025
    You need someone to design your operations processes–or perhaps redesign them. That’s an Ops Architect. Should you take an ops person and train them up in architecture? Or an architect and train them up in operations? Do you even have that ops/engineer/architect organizational structure – and should you? Johna and John dive into this discussion... Read more »
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    27 min
  • HS104: How Long Should Your Planning Horizon Be?

    HS104: How Long Should Your Planning Horizon Be?
    May 20 2025
    How far ahead should you plan, and what things belong in your strategic plan? Conventional wisdom holds that a 3-year planning horizon is “about right”–but in a period of rapid technical and geopolitical change (such as we’re arguably in right now) does that go too far out, particularly when agile methodologies recommend shorter action plans... Read more »
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    29 min
  • HS103: Why IT Is Like Ultimate Frisbee

    HS103: Why IT Is Like Ultimate Frisbee
    May 6 2025
    It’s all well and good to develop a technology strategy, articulate and document the strategy, and agree (supposedly) on that strategy. But what do you do when one or more of the tech teams act in apparent opposition to the strategy? John and Johna discuss why this happens and what questions you need to ask... Read more »
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    26 min
  • HS102: IT’s Role In AI (Sponsored)

    HS102: IT’s Role In AI (Sponsored)
    Apr 29 2025
    AI can impact an enterprise in several ways: making individuals more productive, making products and services more effective, and making it easier for customers and partners to do business. IT plays a critical role in enabling AI to have these impacts. On today’s sponsored Heavy Strategy, Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn explains how to locate AI use... Read more »
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    41 min
  • HS101: Time for a Cybersecurity Spring Cleaning?

    HS101: Time for a Cybersecurity Spring Cleaning?
    Apr 22 2025
    Most organizations have a long list of security holes in the form of unpatched systems and other known but unresolved vulnerabilities. Is it time to hit the big PAUSE button and fix, patch, or mitigate all of that before we resume deploying new systems (and their accompanying risks)? Join us as we tear into whether... Read more »
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    32 min
  • HS100: Lead Without Lying: The (Radical) Strategy of Honesty

    HS100: Lead Without Lying: The (Radical) Strategy of Honesty
    Apr 8 2025
    Is it actually possible to run a team without lying? Steven Gaffney, author of the book, “Just Be Honest”, joins Johna and John to talk about why being honest is harder than it sounds–and how (and why) to do it anyway. Steven spends his career advising science and technology leaders about how to be more... Read more »
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    42 min
  • HS099: From CLI to CFO: Translating Complex Network Data into Clear Strategic and Financial Insights (Sponsored)

    HS099: From CLI to CFO: Translating Complex Network Data into Clear Strategic and Financial Insights (Sponsored)
    Apr 1 2025
    IT and network leaders need more than uptime—they need to know what their networks cost, what they deliver, and how future changes will impact the business. That’s where Netos comes in. CEO and founder Richard Foster joins Johna and John in a lively discussion to explore how Netos turns complex operational data into clear financial... Read more »
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    35 min
  • HS098: Just Following Orders?

    HS098: Just Following Orders?
    Mar 25 2025
    What do you do when your colleagues or senior leaders ask you to do something illegal? It’s hardly hypothetical; recent years have seen high-profile firings and convictions of CIOs and CISOs who’ve been ordered to break the law. John and Johna discuss steps that tech leaders can take if they’re put on the spot. Episode... Read more »
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    34 min