Does McKinsey Hate Betty White?
Betty White rocks. I mean, she hosted Saturday Night Live—and won an Emmy for it—at the age of 88. At…
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Creating the Future by Slashing Complexity
Mainframe users have a problem: finding people with the right skills to service their mission-critical systems. It isn’t language: learning COBOL and PL/I is relatively easy. The difficult part is understanding the logic of systems built by programmers who retired…
Making a Modern Mainframer
It’s no secret that the dreaded “skills gap” is affecting the mainframe market. It’s getting harder and harder to find…
Thanksgiving, Mom and IT Leadership
Next Thursday, we will sit around a table with people whose political opinions we find heartless or naïve, who don’t…
Agile COBOL and the x86-less Datacenter
For years, pundits have predicted that a generational shift in IT would spell doom for the mainframe. But just the…