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Former Ace Hardware CIO on IT failure [podcast]

Listen to Paul Ingevaldson, former CIO of international retailer, Ace Hardware, discuss why many IT projects don't achieve planned results. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Project, Podcast, CIO, Information Technology, Ace Hardware, Alignment Thing, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-01-12

Additional Resources

Edraw Max 5.0 (Windows)

Edraw Max enables students, teachers and business professionals to reliably create and publish kinds of diagrams to represent any ideas. Edraw provides you a versatile, easy, quick and professional solution to let you enjoy your working. In a corporate environment, the folks over in human resources need to be able...

Tags: EDrawSoft, Microsoft Windows, Graphics, Edraw Max, Edraw

Software downloads 2009-10-28

More Apple teardowns: Fall 2009 iMac & Magic Mouse

The crack engineers at iFixIt are at it again. Yesterday I posted their teardown of the new "unibody" (a.k.a. poly) MacBook which revealed a relocated Bluetooth antenna and a larger 60 watt-hour battery. Today's installment includes teardowns of the new Fall 2009 iMac and the mysterious Magic...

Tags: Mouse, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Services or subtasks? SOA and BPM may mean the same thing

We've been debating on these pages whether SOA and business process management go together, or if they're actually two very different disciplines. Jason Bloomberg recently provided his take on the SOA-BPM discussion, saying that SOA and BPM are structurally the same. They may, in fact, be an...

Tags: Business Process, BPM, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Strategy, Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Successfactors: Execute, Execute, Execute!

Successfactors SFSF the Strategic Human Capital Management/people performance software as a service company I last wrote about in June, today expanded their scope to embrace 'Business Execution Software', which is now the strap line under their company logo. As Larry Dignan covered here...

Tags: Talent, Performance, SuccessFactors Inc., Talent Management, Business Alignment Category, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-10

Three big reasons CRM initiatives fail

You Can Summarize It Like This...Michael,Well researched post. However, there is one thing that you allude too in your three points and Paul mentions between the lines but you are missing in your list.It is the only reason CRM fails, actually, which produces all those problems you mention in...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Customer relationship management (CRM), CRM, CRM Initiative

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance

Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...

Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...

Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Re: Re: Winning the Battle but Losing the War

Larry Dignan wrote here about the reality that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 & 7 are the official, formal web browsers for 78% of companies, a figure arrived at by Forrester research. The simple reason for this is basically security and software compatibility. Many...

Tags: Firewall, Collaboration, Information Technology, IT Department Budget, Strategy, E-mail, Security, Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-30

How will you be upgrading to Windows 7?

How will you be upgrading to Windows 7?Perhaps MS is showing its age a lot more than some of the users that are still using it are willing to admit.RE: How will you be upgrading to Windows 7?I'm a system administrator for a multi-business corporation, and I will definitely be...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, hardware, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-04-21

WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to India

WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to Indiais this 'change we can believe in'?We thought Bush was ignorant about the job market, but Obama is downright anti American and in bed with the big and greedy corporations.RE: WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to IndiaWow. Linux...

Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Good Business, IBM Corp., layoff, IBM layoff, job

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

'Business-IT alignment' is dead... whatever it was

'Business-IT alignment' is dead... whatever it wasPerception is Reality - Agile can Help the Enterprise!In my experience, the old adage, ?perception is reality? is the main driver of a lack of ?IT / Business alignment?. And most ?business? have a perception that IT does not deliver on time or...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, Agile

Discussion threads 2009-02-27

Google rips off the band-aid, bad news all around

Google dropped a whole bunch of "bad news" on us today -- it reminds me of when you have to make that hard decision to either rip out one hair out at a time, or go for the gusto when ripping off a band-aid. Today, Google told...

Tags: Google Inc., Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Does seeing a chiropractor make me bad?

Does seeing a chiropractor make me bad?No...it doesn't make you bad...maybe a little foolish, however.As one who just about has his Orthopedist on retainer, Chiropractors are not a group I care to use. They do not cure/fix a problem, they just alleviate pain. Not a bad thing mind you, but...

Tags: chiropractor

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

Sony VPL-HW10

Sony may have canned its line of SXRD-based rear-projection HDTVs in favor of flat-panel LCDs, but the technology is going strong among front projectors. The VPL-HW10 is the company's lowest-priced SXRD projector yet. It starts the updated three-model SXRD line just below the VPL-VW70, which will replace last year's "Pearl"...

Tags: Projectors, projector, SXRD, Sony VPL-HW10, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2008-11-20

IDC-HP study: SOA targets the business, but is the business sold on SOA?

IDC-HP study: SOA targets the business, but is the business sold on SOA?Too much focus on SOA"Influencers understand that overall SOA success requires better business alignment, shared consensus, and deeper levels of participation and as such are particularly focused on driving those dynamics."Strike SOA from the above phrase and it...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, International Data Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., SOA

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft's kinder and simpler consumer services strategy?

Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft's kinder and simpler consumer services strategy?So why the deemphasizing of Live Spaces?I find that strange that the Windows Live Team is not updating Spaces for Wave 3. Right now, the service is suffering from a number of issues: commentary spam, performance and the fact that...

Tags: Operating systems, start-page, Microsoft Corp., strategy, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Windows Live Wave, simpler consumer services strategy, consumer services strategy, Windows Live Wave 3

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture*Standing Ovation*I finally understand your "Centralization of processing and de-centralization of control" shpeel. I think we are in alignment with the latter, but not the former. I believe in an Autonomic Distributed Architecture - where every *NIX machine client and server share the same...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix, hardware, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-24

IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers

Gartner on Tuesday outlined its grand IT challenges from 2008 to 2033 and it includes a world where you'll never have to charge your device. That was one of the futurama type predictions outlined by Gartner analyst Ken McGhee at the firm's Symposium ITxpo. These prediction presentations...

Tags: Device, Information Technology, Gesture, ROI, Programmer, Programming, Wireless, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Development Tools, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14