by Tamer Badawy | Aug 14, 2026 | Executive & Leadership Insights
Early in my career, long before I had heard of ITIL or any formal change framework, I wrote a script and deleted every cron job (task scheduled to run automatically at a set time or interval on Unix and Linux systems) in the environment. One mistyped command. One...
by Tamer Badawy | Aug 7, 2026 | Executive & Leadership Insights
He was one of the youngest people on the team, and he was right. I told him no anyway. The shortcut he objected to was mine. To hit a delivery date, I had approved a design that took the fast and easy path instead of the correct one. He looked at it and said, plainly,...
by Tamer Badawy | Jul 24, 2026 | Executive & Leadership Insights
The data initiative had been in discussion for months. Meeting after meeting, we circled the same questions without landing them. Then one day, while in a room with IT leadership, we finally seemed to make progress. Heads nodded. The tone shifted from debate to...
by Tamer Badawy | Jul 17, 2026 | Executive & Leadership Insights
The vendor called it the future. A new ERP architecture, cloud-native, built for where the industry was heading. Our CIO believed it, and he was not wrong to be interested. The old system worked, but it was a generation behind, and the vendor’s message was...
by Tamer Badawy | Jul 10, 2026 | Executive & Leadership Insights
I joined the transformation late. The platform build was already moving, the budget approved, and the timeline set. When I stepped in, everything on paper said this project was ready to run. So, I made an assumption that cost me months. I assumed the stakeholders had...
by Tamer Badawy | May 1, 2026 | Executive & Leadership Insights
How the desire for control, visibility, and influence shifts IT leadership away from its true role In Dante’s Divine Comedy, Lust is more than just desire. It’s a misguided desire. A force that takes your mind off of what really matters. A focus on getting...
