Niel Nickolaisen is CIO at Western Governors University in Salt Lake City. He is a frequent speaker, presenter and writer on IT's dual role enabling strategy and delivering operational excellence. Write to him at nnick@wgu.edu.
Contributions from Niel Nickolaisen
- Keeping business applications up to par
- Three pillars of project management competency
- Three factors in choosing the right outsourcing model
- BI projects require open mind, deft touch
- Cloud strategies abound, but CIOs must make the calls
- Boost career with process management, IT specialization
- Finding the sweet spots for business process automation
- Are legacy ideas keeping your virtualization down?
- Agile management helps skirt IT project obstacles
- Wringing the complexity out of BPM implementations
- Getting the most from your virtual desktops
- Crafting a savvy business intelligence strategy
- Tips to liven up a moribund PPM process
- Embrace the mobility megatrend or get left behind
- A modern approach to modernizing legacy applications
- Cloud solutions can make planning for DR and BC easier
- A converged infrastructure can simplify IT environments
- The constant evolution of technology has a downside
- Wireless ubiquity sets the stage for killer mobile apps
- Information architecture is the key to data management