The Cadre Report
Leaders at IT Cadre are well versed in different areas and domains. The Cadre Report dives deeper into specific issues and how IT Cadre has successfully approached them.
How We Work With Our Customers
IT Cadre works with a large variety of customers, each with different challenges, needs, and measures of success. As such, we don't take a "one size (or solution) fits all" approach to each new engagement. Instead, we take a mission mindset, striving to meet customers where they are, quickly discerning the nature of and approach to the work at hand, and looking to make an immediate positive impact...
Marene Allison Joins IT Cadre's Board of Advisors
IT Cadre is excited to announce, Marene Allison, former Vice President and CISO of Johnson & Johnson, as a new member of its Board of Advisors. Ms. Allison is a seasoned cybersecurity expert, advisor to multiple companies and board member with a deep knowledge of business drivers and cybersecurity as well as the governance needs of large and small companies alike...
Embracing the Hybrid Work Model
When COVID-19 shocked the world, businesses were impacted in ways unlike anything we have seen in our lifetime. Work that was always done in person had to be completed remotely, and new employees did not have the opportunity to receive any face-to-face mentoring or instruction. However, Crisis Drives Creativity, and so many advancements were achieved out of necessity. We collaborated with people all over the world more effectively, created new digital interactive work products and expanded online collaboration and learning...
Supply Chain Management
Since the Covid pandemic began in 2020, supply chain disruptions continue to create turmoil in the global marketplace. Consumer's panic purchasing further exacerbated an already undersupplied network and traumatized consumer sentiment that previously took inventory availability for granted...
Knowledge Engineering in Healthcare
Understanding and working to improve not just individual components of healthcare, but the integration of the health systems from a market perspective is extremely important. One of the best ways to evaluate and improve the current healthcare system is through end-to-end visualization of a healthcare market...
Mission Analysis
When it comes to understanding an organization's mission and determining the important tasks to be performed, it's vital that the leaders have a shared understanding of their current state to ensure they are making the most informed decisions that are directly affecting the mission...
IT Cadre's 20 Year Anniversary
IT Cadre celebrates our 20th year on April 9, 2021. Over the past 20 years, IT Cadre has grown exponentially. IT Cadre was founded in 2001 with the belief that holistic understanding of organizations, operations and systems is much more important than its individual parts...
Organizational Change
Organizational change is inevitable; however, when organizations are met with a change in their environment, there is often difficulty identifying where challenges or gaps in process exist, how to move forward to achieve the vision, and how to get the whole organization on board with these new changes. This change can be found in a variety of forms within an organization. Whether new leadership has come on board, a change in technology at the organization, an update to existing processes or procedures, and many more....
IT Cadre's Current State
A Current State assessment is more than an org chart that simply lays out a company's personnel structure: an actionable Current State consists of an end-to-end view of the organization in terms of people, business processes, and the systems the business relies on to conduct day-to-day operations....
IT Cadre - Crisis Drives Creativity
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged all organizations. However, IT Cadre believes Crisis drives Creativity and we are excited to share how we have been able to respond to our new reality and become a better organization. IT Cadre helps customers design their best integrated operational model under any conditions.....
IT Cadre's Roadmap - A Shared Commitment to Transformational Change
Roadmaps should provide more than pretty visuals or feature releases; True roadmaps are blueprints for achieving strategic goals that leaders use to implement transformational change, and at IT Cadre, we help our clients do just that....
Cyberspace Convergence – Defining and integrating a new domain
When criminals stole 45 million credit cards by hacking a major retailer in 2005, the world was put on notice that cyber threats were here and real. Cyber security at that time focused on a series of traps and sensors on wired networks - mainly at perimeters..
Transformation Support – Momentum at the most critical time
Organizations that succeed drive the plan hard, confront the tough challenges early, achieve smart quick wins, and gain the early momentum that is critically important for the success of a transformation or program. There will be resistance to change.
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An IT Cadre Effort to Mitigate Cybersecurity Risks
Shadow Information Technology (IT) systems can pose a significant security risk to an organization. They are not protected by the same control measures (e.g., software patches, vulnerability scans, firewall protections, data security controls) as other documented IT services in the environment. This begs the question: If you don’t know what systems and data you have, how do you protect them?
Innovation
What is it about innovation that makes it so difficult? Ask people how they feel about innovation. Everyone loves it. The Apollo program, the internet, deep-fried Oreos. Who doesn’t love innovation? Then ask people how they feel about change. It’s likely you’ll hear a very different kind of response.
