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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
- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...
- Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare
- News items 2008-10-10
- Consumers score a partial win against Walmart
- Walmart has done a 180 on its earlier decision to pull the plug on its DRM servers (thereby locking customers' music collection to whatever PC it happened to be on at the time) and decided to keep the DRM servers running - for now. Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases ...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Digital-rights Management, Server, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Laptops with mobile WiMax now available
- The first laptops with built-in mobile WiMax wireless broadband are now available in the U.S. Sprint, Intel and the computer companies announced the new WiMax configurations at an event in Baltimore just a few days after Sprint launched its Xohm service there. All of these laptops use...
- Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, 3G, Chipsets, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?Not realy, their flaw isThey honestly believe they know vastly more than everyone else, refuse to listen, and miss major oportunities.Not a fatal flaw, but MS recognizes the need to change.MS became dominant, the big dog with selling it's and only it's OS on PCs...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., fatal flaw, flaw, computer, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malware
- Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malwareAsus ships Eee Box PCs with malwareThis is a deliberate attempt by Asus to get people to move away from Microsoft Windows and get the Asus eee's with linux installed. I hope Microsoft sues them for negligence. After that people will not want...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, ASUS, Eee Box PC, malware
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Apple set to release $800 notebook
- Apple set to release $800 notebookNot the first time sub $1000Apple had a $999 notebook at one time. Actually, I think the iBook had that price tag at one time. My only hopes is that this $800 Notebook doesn't come with the specs of a Asus Eee 701.RE:...
- Tags: Notebooks, MacMini, Apple-set, notebook, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect prices
- London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect pricesMicrosoft Technology at its finestSince Both NASDAQ and the London Stock Exchange were MS case studies about how great Windows is, guess Windows really is the POS we all thought it is.Funny how they never had these errors on previous systems and now with...
- Tags: Investment, Operating systems, Web site, Microsoft Corp., London Stock Exchange Plc., stock, London Stock Exchange website, incorrect price, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Start-up looks to extend battery life
- Intel-backed ZPower's silver-zinc battery is set to make its debut with a large laptop manufacturer next year, promising batteries that are 95 percent recyclable and 40 percent longer life. Intel-backed start-up ZPower may be the first to introduce an alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion laptop...
- Tags: Battery, Intel-backed ZPower, Mercury, Battery Life, Engineering, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, batteries, laptops, ZPower, silver-zinc battery
- News items 2008-10-09
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hidingPalin Yes - Obama NoIt amazes me the the Left's knee-jerk reaction to Sarah Palin, when you have Barry Obama with his association with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers and anti-American bigot Jeremiah Wright. And never mind the fact Obama...
- Tags: Obama, Sarah Palin, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Can the Motorola Q11 compete in today's market without a 3G radio?
- The original Motorola Q was really the Windows Mobile device that started the trend of BlackBerry QWERTY competitors a couple of years ago, but had serious battery life issues. Since then Motorola has continued to improve the device so that today's Motorola Q9 devices are actually quite powerful, functional, and...
- Tags: Radio, Motorola Inc., 3G, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
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