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- What makes good governance?
- What makes good governance?Discipline..Discipline, in the project management makes path to good governance though it cant happen overnight.Cheers,Kathiravan Manoharanhttp://kathyravan.blogspot.comhttp://paisamechanic.blogspot.com
- Tags: Project management, Tools & Techniques, good governance
- Discussion threads 2009-02-25
- Forrester CRM analyst discusses IT failure [podcast]
- Forrester CRM analyst discusses IT failure [podcast]The "people part" is hardI just listened to your podcast with Dr. Petouhoff of Forrester. Let me start by saying I fundamentally agree with every point made in the podcast. Though I agree, I think the characterization of the "people part" is oversimplifying the...
- Tags: Podcasts, Enterprise software, information technology, CRM, organizational change, organizational change management, Good Governance, podcast, Process Management, Dr Petouhoff, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-24
- Gartner: Office politics kills IT projects
- Gartner: Office politics kills IT projectsGood to remember...That Machiavelli was a republican, not a monarchist. In "The Prince" he described what princes (particularly "new princes" aka usurpers and conquerors) need to do to be effective, not his ideas about good government (if you're going to be a tyrant, be...
- Tags: office politics, IT Project, information technology, Gartner Inc., Good Governance
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
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- Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency
- Businesses should use caution when procuring cloud services, according to the European agency charged with promoting IT security good practice. Businesses should use caution when procuring cloud services, according to the European agency charged with promoting IT security good practice. The European Network and Information Security...
- Tags: Agency, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Strategy, Networking, Marketing, Management, cloud, business, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK
- News items 2009-11-23
- Internet Governance Forum goes to Egypt and hits a few snags
- Yeah, leave it to the Arab countries to defend freedom.ntAllow the UN to practice "Governance" over the Internet?I will never understand the sort of cognitive disconnect required in order to think that it's a sane idea to let the world's premier body of corruption, mostly run by the world's political...
- Tags: Internet Governance, Internet Governance Forum, Totalitarianism, Article 29, Human Rights, Universal Declaration, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1
- Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, payroll solutions, H1N1 flu, insurance, life insurance, health insurance, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- The role of data governance in the enterprise
- According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...
- Tags: Data Quality, Data Governance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, data management, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News
- News items 2009-11-12
- SharePoint: The team that makes the donut(s)
- No wonder they're successfulThey have a process, they watch actual humans use the product, and accept feedback.RE: SharePoint: The team that makes the donutsAs a long time SharePoint consultant my impression is that the SharePoint team is totally out of touch with enterprise customers. SharePoint 2010 is the same old...
- Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, SharePoint 2010, team, Microsoft SharePoint
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- 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+$700 for a companyseat...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- SaaS: Shelfware as a service?
- Think the conclusions are a bit flawedI think we can all agree that SaaS saves operational expenses, increases agility and improves the user experience. I don't think the fact that Salesforce.com has been successful can be held against the category.The shelfware point is a bit more subtle. The...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, shelfware
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora Linux updates prepped as Win7 release nears
- another nail in M$ coffinThe upcomming failure of windoze 7 and M$ going under will not leave the users exposed.Linux is here to save the day!Wrong Answerhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/windows-7-breaks-amazon-uk-pre-order-volume-record-ousts-harry/DesperationGuess it shows how desperate Vista users are to get onto Win7Windows 7 a failure?Didn't it already surpass Linux's market share? BEFORE it's GA?Failure...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SuSE, Linux, Fedora Project, Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Google Edu Apps and Live@Edu: More than 1 way to skin a cat?
- Layers and layersAs background, we are part of a system of 130ish schools, with only a handful being full P-12 colleges like ours. Therefore solutions provided by central office don't always scale up well to provide for us, although advances are being made every year. My comment relates to the...
- Tags: cloud computing, Live@edu, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- McCarran-Ferguson and a cross-state health market
- Las Vegas?"But if you?re going to let New Yorkers buy from Vermont why not let them buy from Las Vegas?"Uh, because Las Vegas is NOT A STATE.We are the united states of america and not the united cities of america.I could have written Nevada, trueBut Las Vegas is funnier and...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Vertical industries, Corporate governance, Insurance, Delaware, health care, health insurance
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage for the final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today - an afternoon session that followed lunch and got off to a rough start when Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan who was scheduled to speak after Ellison came on stage first and spent 45 minutes...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Ellison, Fusion, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Fourth type of cloud computing
- Close, but no cigarThere is no requirement that a cloud be publicly accessible. In many cases, corporations use cloud products to supplement existing production. In that case, the public access is via the existing security scheme and the cloud assets are never directly accessible via public IP.Also, there...
- Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Open web
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm
- 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. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- ICANN declares independence, breaks ties with U.S. government
- Let the in-fighting begin!How long before it is subverted for political/ideolical purposes like the U.N. has been subverted?(not to say the U.S. hasn't)A bit of naiveness involvedIt stands to reason that, when governments are involved, that there will be political and ideological squabbles on any decision.The EU as a "unified"...
- Tags: Government, Corporate governance, INTERNET, Vertical industries, U.S. Government, ICANN
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Governance in the International Security Arena: A Role for Non-State Stakeholders as Co-Providers of Security
- Security is a global public good. State-level actors are generally doubtful and at least ambiguous towards any role of non-state stakeholders in security. However, states which are called upon to provide security, both to their citizens nationally and for the wider international community, have to connect with non-state actors. For...
- Tags: Netherlands Institute Of International Relations Clingendael, Security
- White papers 2009-10-01
- Annual cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion
- I'm not buying their claims.. It looks like they're declaring all IT activities as a failure which is patently ridiculous.. The companies I support rarely experience a failure. I do the product evaluations up front and determine if a product is worthy of purchase and deployment. I use...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, software, CPU, information technology, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Does social media reward whining?
- The worm is turningIt's taken a while, but it's clear the social media world is waking up to the fact that companies using Twitter as a back-door customer service channel staffed by PR personnel isn't a sustainable practice.I think it's great that PR people I am one are using social...
- Tags: Public relations, Twitter Inc., social media
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
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