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- Mid-Market ERP: "Soap Operas of the IT Industry"
- SearchCIO sponsored development of a white paper, called As the World Turns: CIOs and their ERP Dramas registration required. It describes the risks. rewards, and failures of ERP implementations, based on the result of a survey conducted by the author. Check it out: Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems are the...
- Tags: Project strategy, Project failures, CIO issues
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Knowing When to Quit
- Patricia Keefe has a blog entry in Information Week, where she describes two failed projects: the FBI Virtual Case File and the Mecklenburg County court system, both of which you can read about in this blog.Patricia raises the question of deciding when its time to kill a project. From her...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects, CIO issues
- Blog posts 2006-05-21
- In the Land of the Quakers
- Quaker Fabric Corporation (NASDAQ: QFAB) is a leading manufacturer of woven upholstery fabrics for furniture markets in the United States and abroad, and the largest producer of Jacquard upholstery fabric in the world.Quaker recently announced they have terminated their CIO, Norman J. Sturdevant, and their VP of Supply Chain Management,...
- Tags: Project failures, CIO issues
- Blog posts 2006-04-10
Additional Resources
- The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing
- Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...
- Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- 6 dirty tricks from enterprise vendors
- GET it in WRITING!If it is NOT in the contract then you made your first mistake.Well said.Contracts & Paper Trails are more precious than gold when something goes Tango-Ultra on you.I dont agree with #5Well I do, but to further clarify, *most* vendors will support at least 1-2 major revisions...
- Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), dirty trick, enterprise vendor, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Angst in Oak Park over failed PeopleSoft project
- Angst in Oak Park over failed PeopleSoft projectA fool with a tool...A fool with a tool remains a fool. Poor processes implemented with PeopleSoft will continue to work poorly only more quickly. Lots of blame to go around, lots of incompetence too. You gotta fix the process first, then find/craft...
- Tags: Operational accounting, payroll solutions, PRODUCTIVITY, payroll, PeopleSoft Inc., Oak Park, Human Resources, spreadsheet
- Discussion threads 2009-01-29
- PPM & IT Management â€" is now finally the time?
- Best Practice in IT Management - Has PPM's time come? PPM Project Portfolio Management software products have been around several years now. They are used by IT departments, project teams, program managers and others to both manage projects but also to constantly monitor and adjust one’s project...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, PPM, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- 14 ways IT screws up projects
- Successful projects require decent project execution. Look, no one's asking IT to save the world, but delivering projects really well should be a core IT function. Some projects are so bad that IT seems to deliberately shoot itself in the head. Sorry, but...
- Tags: Project, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blog
- An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blogSounds like xVM server to me.Perhaps I misunderstood your thoughts, but what you describe sounds an awful lot like the xVM Ops center server product from Sun.More virtual crapVirtualization allows projects that didn't buy the hardware, to run on the hardware. IOW the...
- Tags: Data centers, Servers, Jonathan Schwartz, NOW IT, blog, server, data center, new server, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- SAP's CTO: Business knows 'what', IT knows 'how'
- The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the brief excerpts below. Vishal Sikka is SAP's Chief Technology Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Henning Kagermann, Vishal is responsible for driving...
- Tags: CTO, Line Of Business, Information Technology, Packaged Application, SAP AG, Business byDesign, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Questioning IT
- This is the 13th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. There are, very broadly speaking, two main approaches to managing IT open to board members and senior non IT executives. In the first of these you ask no difficult...
- Tags: Information Technology, Board, Board Member, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- IT failure at Heathrow T5: What really happened
- Anyone having the misfortune to pass recently through Heathrow's new Terminal 5 knows the huge project debuted as a case study in full-blown systems failure. Most reports have focused on stranded customers, a crazed supermodel, and Queen Elizabeth's grand opening speech, which called the terminal "a 21st Century gateway to...
- Tags: Software, CIO, Baggage, British Airways Plc., Information Technology, Problem, Terminal 5, BA, Vanderlande Industries, Vanderlande, Bags, Paul Coby, Airports Authority, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Can project portfolio management prevent IT train wrecks?
-  Project portfolio management PPM vendors promise to help customers juggle competing investment priorities, reduce IT failures, and improve alignment between technology and their business. Given these impressive benefits, it's worth examining what's required to successfully implement PPM. To learn more about the issues, I attended ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Government turns to SaaS to salvage IT failures
- The senior White House IT official, Karen Evans, said she believes software as a service SaaS can improve government IT projects and systems. Evans made her remarks during a talk at the Saas/GOV 2008 conference. From InfoWorld: "Our track record is clear -- we ...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Agency, Information Technology, Karen Evans, Software As A Service (SaaS), Government, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Marketing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Naked IT: Author Ed Yourdon on the IT / business divide (includes podcast)
- The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the additional information included in this blog post. In this segment, we meet Ed Yourdon, an internationally-recognized author and...
- Tags: Podcast, Information Technology, Ed, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights analysts explore SOA's role through failure, governance, policy and politics
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.Follow service oriented architecture SOA to its logical conclusions and you recognize that modern corporations will soon be operated on the equivalent of aviations "fly by wire." The traditional governance and management means of running a business -- the levers, pulleys, cables, and brute...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA
- Blog posts 2007-03-25
- Foes of outsourcing get good news
- Foes of outsourcing get good newsUm, any ethical society wouldn't kill its own for the sake of greed.Acquiring wealth is one thing.Acquiring it by exploitation, cheating, stealing, killing, and ruining others' lives is despicable and far from civilized. It makes us no better than a pack of wild wolves....
- Tags: outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2005-05-16
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