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IDC Directions09: Analyst perspectives on IT failure

While attending the Directions09 conference in Boston today, I explored why IT projects fail in conversations with two IDC analysts. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Information Technology, Failure, International Data Corp., Business Stakeholder, Melinda, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-03-17

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ICANN, US government splitting up - slowly

Bad News?a multi-stakeholder, private-sector-led, bottom-up policy development model?Too bad they don't view the common user as a "stakeholder".If they go completely private the internet will look like Wall Street did last December... in no time at all.There is also a contingent of national security involved in the GOVT retaining control...

Tags: Vertical industries, U.S. Government, ICANN, government

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Salesforce.com and CODA hook up

Salesforce.com and CODA (via its parent Unit 4 Agresso) are hooking up to create FinancialForce.com. While financial details of the arrangement were not revealed, Salesforce.com is a minority stakeholder in the new company. From the blurbs: The CODA 2go team and products have transferred to FinancialForce.com, which will...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CODA, FinancialForce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-30

7 fundamentals of IT project success

7 FundamentalsI agree that most of the failures are not because of technical issues. Project managers often focus on the mechanics of managing the activities. There needs to be a focus on business value. This can only come from the business.Adding to the Stakeholder involvement item you...

Tags: Strategy, IT Solutions, Project Leadership, information technology, IT Project Success

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Measuring the ROI of PR

Measuring the ROI of PRWhat is the REAL ROI of PR?What is the business owner/stakeholder's goal in spending money on Public Relations. What value measures are real at predicting or correlating with Value?These questions are not easy to answer. But there is a way.My collaboration partner and I have developed...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Sales force management, public relations, REAL ROI, ROI

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Take steps to prevent IT myopia [video]

Take steps to prevent IT myopia [video]Project management as an enablerYou make the case that project management inhibits IT strategic business value. However, each tips you present to stop viewing IT in project-related terms are clearly articulated in the Project Management Institute's PMI project process rigor for anyone's Project...

Tags: Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Purchasing & Procurement, Quality, video, information technology, project management, PMI, risk management plan

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

Death of the Principle of Voluntarism?

Much of the corporate sustainability and responsibility agenda has been propelled since the '90s by the idea that voluntary action on the part of corporations is more effective than regulation. It has been a celebration of market dynamism over moribund regulation, the latter of which would provide only for the lowest common denominator. At...

Tags: Initiative, Diamond, Kimberly Process, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-06-25

What Corporate Sustainability can learn from twitter, Robert Scoble & Iran

[caption id="attachment_763" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Amanpour: A little more Davos & Friend Feed, a little less Damascus & live feed?"][/caption] The celebrated celebrity blogger, Robert Scoble, is ticked off with CNN over its weak coverage of the Iran election and aftermath. In his most recent blog post -'The day Twitter kicked...

Tags: Sustainability, Social Media, CNN, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?

Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?Green Y2KDennis, needed questions...I asked a similar question couple of weeks ago - are we headed towards a green Y2K?http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/2009/05/the-green-y2k.htmlI was at Gartner then and we were warning the world about Y2K. The bigger the total remediation cost we projected the more...

Tags: Y2K, global warming, Climate Change, IT SPEND, information technology, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?

One of the great things about being an Irregular is that every now and again, one of our motley band will toss a pebble into a pond which sends ripples. Last weekend Jeff Nolan, one of our founders and a great personal friend said this: ...

Tags: Information Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Argument, Tom, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-08

AT&T's First (well not quite first) Chief Sustainability Officer

The AT&T PR luvvies pushed out a tweet today announcing they had freshly minted their first Chief Sustainability Officer CSO. I took a closer look and it turns out the newly appointed Charlene Lake has been in situ since last year albeit with the slightly more modest title of VP Public Affairs Corporate Citizenship and...

Tags: Sustainability, AT&T Corp., James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?

Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?Is our culture holding us back?I'm thinking that one of the big challenges to moving forward with any information technology is cultural change. We've seen an amazing capacity for younger generations those in their teens and twenties today to be able...

Tags: data model, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

As Sun's world turns (worse): The latest

As Sun's world turns worse: The latestSun will be fineas long as M$ is keeping their long nose out of Sun's businesss.RE: As Sun's world turns worse: The latestAside from the language, I fully agree with your point, and so should every other SUN shareholder..or stakeholder. SUN execs have created...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Financial accounting, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., shareholder

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

Optimizing Performance of Business-Critical Web Applications

To assure critical revenue and optimal performance, organizations today need a Web APM solution that can monitor 100% of user transactions, provide unique data on the business impact of failed transactions and deliver essential data for resolving problems quickly. With such a solution in place, everyone in the organization -...

Tags: Performance, Computer Associates International Inc., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2009-04-01

From Blackberry to Greenberry: RIM Goes Green at CeBIT

Even with attendance and exhibitor numbers down CeBIT this week was still full steam ahead on green. Luis Neves, Head of Sustainability at Deutsche Telekom and Chairman of the Global eSustainability Initiative GESI, during his keynote announced GESI's newest member will be Research In Motion, maker of the Blackberry. GESI is...

Tags: Sustainability, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, GESI, Sustainability Performance, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-03-07

Green is still Gold (But Beware of the Politics of Gesture)

Foolhardy it may be to go out on a limb here to take on my boss (in this carnation I mean my editor, Larry Dignan) and a force of nature that is my fellow ZDNET blogger Dennis Howlett but I have to disagree with both on the subject of viability of the green market....

Tags: Sustainability, Oracle Corp., Gesture, Dennis, Hugh McLeod, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-02-28

Nortel to cut 3,200 more employees

Nortel today announced that it intends to reduce its workforce by an additional 3,200 positions worldwide over the next several months, almost doubling the total number of laid off employees after 1,800 workers were cut earlier this year.r"There is nothing more difficult than notifying employees, and Nortel is extremely conscious...

Tags: Compensation, Employee, Performance, Nortel Networks Corp., Equity, Benefits, Performance Management, Investment, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-25

Getting on the wavelength

There's a solid, wide focused article by Tim Weber on the BBC News website's Davos coverage which articulates well the challenge many companies have in understanding and engaging with the internet on the most basic strategic level. Readers of sophisticated technical sites like...

Tags: Knowledge, Social Media, Accountability, Perception, Internet, Public Relations, Blogging, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-30

HP further integrates EDS; Rittenmeyer to retire

HP further integrates EDS; Rittenmeyer to retireDe-personalizing the firingsI love how the analyst manages to make you feel good about the fact that some 2,300 real human beings have been kicked to the curb by HP so far, with tens of thousands of more cuts on the horizon. All...

Tags: Financial accounting, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Rittenmeyer, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2008-12-08

IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (IT GRC): An Organizational Imperative - What It Is, and Why You Should Know

Regulatory mandates, emergence of new forms of risk, and a growing stakeholder focus on managing them are the principal drivers pressuring organizations to adopt IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance IT GRC strategies. Research shows that the key to success is introduction of a coherent system with a governance structure that...

Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Compliance, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-10-01