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Cool word of the day: 'Boondoggle'

Cool word of the day: 'Boondoggle'IT Projects Model SOX projectsRight on! However, IT projects are not the only place to "Trash" millions of dollars. I specialize in SOX compliance projects, and base my methodologies on IT project management. The failure rates must be even higher for SOX, but all the...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Project management, Boondoggle, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Cool word of the day: 'Boondoggle'

For IT failure fanatics, freaks, researchers, and interested bystanders of all sorts, boondoggle is a word we need to know!. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Project, Boondoggle, Wiki, Government, Gender And Diversity, Research & Development, Online Communications, Human Resources, Business Operations, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-04-02

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The long and winding road to MSN's reinvention as a social hub

MSN, why bother?I remember what a turd-fest the original MSN was. When I got my DSL from Qwest a few years back, MSN was the service provider. So my last peek at MSN was in June 2007 and I never went back there -- it was still a crap-fest. How...

Tags: MSN

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Small signs of a health care deal forming

what deal?The New York Times is the least reliable source of information.If you want signs of a deal in the making just watch the conservatives talk shows: O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, etc as real Americans do.They would tell us if there are any talks about it. RE: Small signs of a...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Nissan Leaf, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Condemning what the market does worse

Agree, but unfair comparisonI do agree with most of what you are saying, but feel compelled to take issue with the following:You said "Few deny the Obama Administration has mangled the health care debate. On my personal blog I have compared this to how the Bush Administration handled Hurricane Katrina."The...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, government, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

230 MPG. 367 MPG. Pick a number and market it! Doubts are voiced.

What difference does it make?I mean seriously, what if its only half that, its still better than anything you can buy today. As to the "hype", is this the first time you have heard marketing hype?Wow, Polarized Vote OptionsSeems like the vote options are either, "It's really good/the next...

Tags: MPG, General Motors Corp., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?

Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?Tragic endIf GM had been allowed to conduct its affairs based on its own marketing expertise, I would have assumed it would do just fine, once the onerous union agreements were modified.Now, it appears to be doomed. The corporate management puppets are echoing...

Tags: Government, Engineering, NOW IT, Volt, General Motors Corp., battery

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House

Some are fer it, some agin it. The White House seems pleased. Waxman and Markey still have their names on it. Greenpeace evironmentalists despise it, so does Dr. James Hansen we hear. Right wing groups like Heritage Foundation and Americans for Tax Reform are using words like...

Tags: Bill, NRDC, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-25

News to know: IBM-Sun; RIM, Web 2.0; CTIA; Facebook; iPhone

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM-Sun deal nears finish line; Antitrust worries just starting Sam Diaz: RIM delivers solid Q4 on BlackBerry...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Facebook, Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, CTIA, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Open Source, Internet

Blog posts 2009-04-03

My weekend wildlife sighting: Wind turbines in action

My weekend wildlife sighting: Wind turbines in actionA Consumption Ethic?I live near the Wild Horse Wind Farm in central Washington and like to hike and ski out near the edge of the property. Since we moved to the valley below the wind farm has become a favorite spot to...

Tags: turbine, wind farm, Wind turbine

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

Alcohol binge leaves nasty hang-over

Alcohol binge leaves nasty hang-overIs it really alcohol?http://www.abchomeopathy.com/r.php/Nux-vRE: Alcohol binge leaves nasty hang-overCorn-based ethanol was [b]never[/b] competitive. It was propped up by government subsidy and really was nothing more than a boondoggle with the added bonus that it also raised food prices.Ethanol itself is a less than ideal gasoline substitute...

Tags: Free trade, alcohol, biodiesel

Discussion threads 2009-01-09

Five strategies for 2009 IT gold

Let's talk about running successful IT projects in 2009. This discussion is more important than ever, because IT problems remain common, with some estimates suggesting 68% of projects fail. Despite staggering odds, follow these five strategies to reach the IT pot of gold. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Insurers place first bid made in health reform game

Insurers place first bid made in health reform gameTaking the easier questions.Sometimes Who shall live? and Who shall die? are policy questions subject to cost benefit analyses. You're right. And some day those decisions may be made by the equivalent of a clemency board for death sentences. ...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, game, insurance company, health care, insurance, community rating, healthy people

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Texas gov. intercedes in failing IBM project

Texas gov. intercedes in failing IBM projectCouldn't happen to two nicer parties ...As far as IBM is concerned, it's business as usual; the customer is to be told what they are going to get and how much they are going to pay for it, and they better learn to like...

Tags: Strategy, IT knowledge, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Green tech company hits the red, and the panic button

Green tech company hits the red, and the panic buttonethanol from corn fuel? Forget about it...Ethanol from grasses and wood waste and switch grass is a great idea. Ethanol from corn is a boondoggle from the word go and was set up to subsidize large farms run by Republicans....

Tags: Food & Beverage, corn, food, Green tech company, green technology

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Government, markets and regulation

Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...

Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare

Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareRE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareThe legal "Phalanx" is only one of several tools that Apple is heating in the furnace of hi-tech to fight the Cloners and maintain their iron grip on quality control of their hardware, which is their major...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, Thermopylae, clone nightmare

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

SOA market will double, but will success stories follow?

Could SOA become a $52-billion boondoggle? Or only $9 billion? by Joe McKendrick

Tags: AMR Research, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Got Firefox? 503 Service Unavailable

Got Firefox? 503 Service UnavailableFirefox 3 downloadI tried the sites but got the same results. I would like to download ver 3.0 before the 24 hour period elapses. Maybe tonight might work.Yeah, this is a boondoggle......equivalent to what an Obama presidency would be like!!! (i.e., It's disappointing, not what...

Tags: Web browsers, Service Unavailable, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Has Microsoft lost its way on desktop computing?

Based on recent comments by top Redmond strategists, it appears that Microsoft has no credible vision for the future of desktop computing. Apple appears to have skirted this strategic black hole and despite the distractions of its OS X-based mobile clients, keeps delivering powerful desktop hardware, a robust OS...

Tags: Software, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Computing, Surface, Desktop Strategy, Desktops, Strategy, Hardware, Management, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-04-01