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A brief summary: This is not an excerpt from Brief - those ended last week, and next week we'll start the long and boring slog through the second volume in the series: Business Information Technology: Foundations and Culture. Its purpose, where Brief is addressed to top level executives and Defen is intended for...; Tags: Information Technology, MySQL, Jonathan Schwartz, Open Source, Databases, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-09
A brief summary: A brief summaryCompare with CFOIn many parts of the world, the CFO must be a chartered/certified accountant. In the US, this is now also essentially the case, due to SOx, and SOx is there as a result of accounting scandals.IT continues to disregard formal qualifications and licencing. Maybe the CIO...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Databases, IBM AIX, SOx, shareholder, AIX 5.3, Schwartz, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan Bs: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer walked away from his bid for Yahoo and left numerous questions hanging. The biggest ones: What's plan B for Microsoft? Can Yahoo deliver? And who are the winners in the aftermath of the Yahoo saga. Here's your cheat sheet to the aftermath (Techmeme,...; Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-04
Doctor iPhone, I presume?: Doctor iPhone, I presume?So it BeginsMultiply the oncologist's convenience out to the other specialties, add the GPs, add nurses, administration, and the candy stripers while you're at it. Add the pharmacists, the paramedics, and the community health people. No discipline responds to technology like medicine does and they will be...; Tags: Doctor iPhone; Discussion threads 2008-04-29
Analogy: WOA treats symptoms, but SOA the cure for IT complexity: Analogy: WOA treats symptoms, but SOA the cure for IT complexityWO is just as valid as SOWhy is an SO approach considered better and inherently far more reaching than a WO approach?The analogy implies that WOA addresses only the superficial symptoms and that it never addresses the underlying issues. Why...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, WOA, SOA, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-04-29

A professor deals with political climate around climate change: I am NOT a scientist but I have two brothers who are. My father was a phycsics professor. I even admit to knowing and liking folks who are in the sciences, regardless of their reputation among certain politico-business factions in America. In the interest of dialogue, I...; Tags: Food, Science, Humans, Trite, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-27
HP's security management model brings comprehensive approach to corporate risk reduction: Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. We live in an age where there is so much exposure to risk and information security pitfalls that when data gets out -- it gets out in a big way. Devastating security breaches are becoming routine in the media, and those...; Tags: Information Security, Hewlett-Packard Co., Security Management, Security, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-04-27
Will the Internet remain neutral?: Probably not. What Net Neutrality advocates forget is what has kept the Internet neutral so far has been market discipline, not government. Most customers want neutrality, and will "vote with their feet" against those carriers who violate it. Assuming, that is, they have a...; Tags: Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-18
When should you tackle that data center rationalization project?: So here's a question: When, exactly, should a data center be overhauled? What is the best rational for a data center manager to use with upper management to undertake such a project? And just how big of a deal should said data center manager make out of the green element...; Tags: Data Center, Server, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-04-13
5 reasons IT is soooo slowwww: 5 reasons IT is soooo slowwwwIT departments are anti-nimbleIT departments by their very structure and responsibilities are unable to be nimble. They have been required to develop, manage and maintain large & complex systems with high levels of reliability and resilience. This mindset and process orientation works against...; Tags: IT IS, IT Attitude, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-04-09
Australian senator demands open source against US "lock-in": Australian senator demands open source against US "lock-in"Australian Senator Kate Lundy is on target about softwareSenator Kate Lundy is very well placed to make the comments she made - and to be heard where it matters. She is a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory ACT which was created as...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, open source; Discussion threads 2008-04-09
Survey: Your IT leaders are an antsy bunch: Survey: Your IT leaders are an antsy bunchOutsourcingOne of our idiot directors (actually, I don't mean to imply we have multiple idiot directors...rephrase...one of our directors, an idiot...) recently told a bunch of us that "we have no choice but to move to an outsourcing or offshore model - the...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, outsource, information technology, outsourcing, survey; Discussion threads 2008-03-28
It's good to be a service worker: A common complaint among globalization skeptics in rich nations is that, in a global market for products, it makes most sense to do the manual work in lower-income locations. This tends to shift rich nation employment patterns towards the service sector. "Services" is an often misunderstood term,...; Tags: Worker, Service, Globalization, Government, Strategy, Management, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-03-10
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
Reducing IT failures with project portfolio management: Project portfolio management PPM vendors claim their tools give organizations more control over IT projects, create stronger alignment between business goals and IT operations, and reduce project failure rates. To evaluate these promises, and to determine whether PPM can really keep project ducks in a row,...; Tags: Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-03-05
Research firm: Google Android SDK multiple vulnerabilities: Research firm: Google Android SDK multiple vulnerabilitiesExciting Stuff!You beat me to it Larry, this is great stuff! The CORE guys are real solid, so it's not a surprise to see them jump on this earlier.By the way, you will see far more of this. As these mobile devices...; Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc., SDK, Google Android; Discussion threads 2008-03-04
Teacher Gradebook for Filemaker Pro 8/9 (zip): The teacher Gradebook supports 4 terms, 2 exams and 6 definable assessment categories for each course. The administrator can weight Terms, Assessment Categories and Examinations by course and year. The gradebook prints a variety of reports: Assignments, Term Reports, Summary Reports, Attendance absences and tardiness, Contacts, Discipline and Seating Plans...; Tags: Filemaker Inc., Teacher, FileMaker Pro, Gradebook; Software downloads 2008-02-22
Seven antidotes to the caustic politics of IT failure: Seven antidotes to the caustic politics of IT failureQuality Circles Rah, rah, Team Building Rah, rahSorry, but I've read all this, 30 years ago.Point being that I again say this is an effort to re-invent the wheel.People have paid for the obvious for years.Seen reviews of self-help books? For...; Tags: Strategy, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-02-19
Does IT matter?: As someone who has been accused of publicity seeking through grand pronouncements I can understand the motivation behind Nicholas Carr's 2003 article in Harvard Business Review: "IT Doesn't Matter". His main thesis is: For a brief period, as they are being built into the ...; Tags: Concept, K Mart, Information Technology, Wiki, Matter, Marketswiki.com, Interactive Brokers, Strategy, Management, Richard Stiennon; Blog posts 2008-02-17
Three+risk+categories+that+explain+IT+failure: Three+risk+categories+that+explain+IT+failureWow...I'll bet they spent millions studying this problem to conclude that the biggest risk categories for IT projects are all the things that go into IT projects. Simply amazing. These people must all have MBAs.Why do some folks thing IT is somehow different?I am constantly amazed that anyone...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, project management, information technology, risk category, IT Project; Discussion threads 2008-02-15