by Dane Thomas | Apr 21, 2026 | Articles
Part two in a series comparing ancient strategic wisdom with the ITIL guiding principles In the previous essay in this series, we explored the surprising parallels between Machiavelli’s The Prince and the seven guiding principles of the ITIL framework. That comparison...
by Dane Thomas | Apr 14, 2026 | Articles
How a Renaissance treatise on political power maps onto the guiding principles of modern IT best practices I first read The Prince as a university student, long before I had any connection to IT service management. It stayed with me not because of its reputation for...
by Dane Thomas | Apr 1, 2026 | Articles
What the scientific paper can teach us about building business cases that actually work Pull up any scientific journal article and any corporate business case side by side, and something odd happens. They look like relatives.Both open with a summary of the whole...
by Dane Thomas | Mar 29, 2026 | Articles
An AI assistant comparison synthesis Over 20 years ago, I read Guy Kawasaki‘s book Rules for Revolutionaries, and one of his pieces of advice that has stuck with me is “Eat like a hummingbird, poop like an elephant.”Allow me to explain.Hummingbirds have one of the...
