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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

CIO Time Management Advice? $379

Ive always had respect for Forrester Research, despite complaints such as this. Maybe the Christmas to New Years holiday interregnum is to blame, but a recent recent report advising CIOs on how to spend their time just seems obvious to me. Here is the executive summary, reprinted in full:With the...

Tags: CIO issues

Blog posts 2007-01-02

Failing Before Starting

Problems on many IT project failures can be traced back before the project even started. For example, weve all seen poorly-designed projects, that should never have seen the light of day. Whether for political reasons, short-sighted management, or plain old hubris, some IT projects are simply stupid to undertake. They...

Tags: Vendor relationships, CIO issues

Blog posts 2006-12-21

Implementation Success!

Well, this is unusual. New Age Electronics has promoted Sam Changizi, its Director of Information Technology, to the position of CIO. The reason:“Under Sam’s leadership we’ve put ERP solutions in place that have given us a solid ‘end-to-end’ offering, which allows us to create a suite of high value-added, customer...

Tags: Project success, CIO issues

Blog posts 2006-09-27

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

INTERVIEW: Barry J. Brunetto on Taming a Wild Vendor

Usually, the Deck Chairs blog describes horror stories of waste, hubris, and failure. But not this time! Today the story is about taking control and turning vendor-supplied failure into success. Todays interview is with Barry Brunetto, Vice President of Information Systems for global manufacturing company, Blount Inc. I first read...

Tags: Interview, CIO issues

Blog posts 2006-05-10

Seeds of Success

Aligned Strategy points to an article on how to hire a CIO. The article includes the following action items to address during the CIO hiring process:A high level IT strategy tied and aligned with the business plan (this is a starting point for the new CIO who will expand, refine...

Tags: Project success, CIO issues

Blog posts 2006-04-25

Toasting Russia

Dean Lane has an article in CIO Insight magazine on the state of IT in Russia. The discussion emphasizes the similarities and shared set of concerns that exists between Russian CIOs and their Western counterparts. As business in Russian integrates more with the West, it does makes sense that their...

Tags: IT issues, CIO issues

Blog posts 2006-04-18

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

Google defines its focus in Apps in 2010

Chrostopher: the need for detailed formatting as we know it is going away.Actually, the detailed formatting is moving to making it look like you want on computer screens, NOT on paper, which is quite different.All of those baroque features for printing on 8.5x11 paper are looking more stupid every day.Interesting...

Tags: OpenOffice, Document management, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

News to know: Windows 7, Net Neutrality, Nokia-Apple; Kindle

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. Windows 7 Coverage Andrew Nusca: Liveblog: Microsoft CEO Ballmer kicks off Windows 7 availability Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'

Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...

Tags: Quadrant, Analyst, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Vinnie, MQ, Blogging, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Conference alert: let's make SOA work for a living

Welcome to Service Oriented Architecture, Phase 2. It's bigger, It's badder, it's all business.  None of this namby-pamby JBOWs stuff. None of these SOAPY-REST tantrums. SOA is all grown up now, and it's time it starts earning the bacon. I am serving as conference chair and...

Tags: SOA, Conference, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-10-15

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

Blind to the elephant in the cloud

I like the idea of cloud computing but...For me the real elephant in the room is security, user data rights, and long term usability. For me, once these issues have been resolved, I would love to come to the cloud. I agree there are tremendous benefits for doing business in...

Tags: Virtualization, Private Clouds, NOW IT, cloud computing, elephant

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Using green IT to meet corporate sustainability goals. Deloitte offers tips in Webinar.

Wondering how to get your chief executive to buy more into technology's role in helping reduce energy consumption or in managing environmental initiatives? Deloitte Consulting recently hosted a seminar called "Competing in the Low-Carbon Economy: The Essential Dialogue Between the CIO and the C-Suite. Its goal was...

Tags: Sustainability, Deloitte LLP, Webinar, Green IT, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Does Oracle matter to open source

only as long as Oracle fights M$the reason OSS is doing very well is because people hate M$ and proprietary software in general.As long as Oracle will fund this insurgency against the evil M$ empire everybody will be better off.Eventually M$ will collapse like the Soviet Union and great days...

Tags: open source, proprietary software, OSS, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

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