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Has your Church been NIST’d?
Here is a framework that all churches and religious organizations can work with to better understand and prepare themselves for cyber attacks and protecting their data. The guidance encourages organizations such as churches to secure data from a privacy perspective and maintain security from a cyber perspective. This is called the NIST framework. NIST is…
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Churches live in a world of continuous compromise
“All organizations should now assume that they are in a state of continuous compromise.” — GartnerGroup 2016 “Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected.” – St. Irenaeus What does a statement like the two above mean to your church and the various diocese,…
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Church AI…Are we really ready?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is growing and its reach in our world, our society is immense. Every social network is using AI. Your banks, your insurance companies, and many of employers of your congregations are all employing AI to some degree. Churches, synods, presbyteries, dioceses, and middle judicatories need to look to capitalize on AI’s potential…
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Churches, do you know the company your data is keeping?
“You either know you have been hacked or you don’t know you have been hacked. In either case, you have been hacked.”
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Will data privacy turn your missional efforts into something that others will say is a “can of worms” at best?
The first step in successful transformation is to understand the ground rules of this new world of data privacy, which include being more sensitive to changing congregational requirements.
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Do you experience resistance to change all too often?
Change Management is lifecycle management “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:19 I have heard more times than I can count from ministers about their experiences to resistance to change. A…
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Overcoming the Impediments: “bayoneting the wounded in the processes.”
As you may have surmised from my musings, they are about missional operational strategy, discipleship, technology and most importantly about change. Change is about education. There is no change unless there is a learning process and we must remember if we do not learn, we do not change, and we will not grow as an organization…
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Present and Future technology, cybersecurity, and concerns: The framework for success.
This musing post will be a tad more technical than past musing, so bear with me. We have been discussing technologies of the fourth and fifth industrial evolutions, and the tools that support reinventing your mission and church in the new world of Web 3.0. There are two critical concerns about the new technological developments…
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The art of reinventing your missional plan
Just because you have a missional strategy and plan does not necessarily mean it will be sufficient to get you to where you will be in three years especially in light of the evolving and changing world of technology and privacy. Look at your policies from three years ago primarily in technology. Did you have…
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