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Project tradition and IT culture [cartoon]

Project tradition and IT culture [cartoon]RE: Project tradition and IT culture [cartoon]Our project culture, unfortunately, is "Bite off more than we can chew, do less than what's needed, and then call it finished."OuchWell, doesn't sound great, but thanks for sharing it.

Tags: IT culture, cartoon, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Improve your failed IT culture

Improve your failed IT cultureRisk and rulesWhat's the connection between your suggested steps to improve projects and the problem identified?Is it possible to deal with the problem identified in the following quoted quotes without using the word "blame"?Creating a culture for risk management is a challenging proposition for most firms....

Tags: Strategy, Financial Planning, Computer Services, Anton, risk management, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

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HNHSoft Larousse English Italian Dictionary (BlackBerry) 1.1.12 (Mobile)

HNHSoft Larousse Concise Dictionary: English-Italian / Italian-English is the latest addition to the Larousse bilingual Italian dictionary line. It provides intermediate to advanced users with the extensive vocabulary coverage and in-depth features they need. With up-to-date vocabulary in all subject areas including information technology, business, and economics along with ample...

Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Dictionary, HNHSoft, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Handhelds, Marketing, Human Resources, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-25

HNHSoft Larousse English Spanish Dictionary (BlackBerry) 1.1.12 (Mobile)

HNHSoft Larousse Concise Dictionary: English-Spanish / Spanish-English is the ideal mobile companion for those who wish to learn and become fluent in contemporary Spanish. With 90,000 references and 120,000 translations, it has most all of the words its users are looking for. This new edition offers extensive, up-to-date coverage of...

Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, HNHSoft, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-25

Cry Translator for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Cry Translator for iPhone is an easy to use app that allows parents and caregivers to understand their cry. Cry Translator for iPhone can ease the anxiety of caring for a crying infant by helping parents and caregivers to quickly understand their cry and immediately respond to their needs. it...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Infant, Cry, Biloop Technologic, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-24

Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?

Come from thinking that technology solves business problemsMotto should be:SOLVE THE PROBLEM, and then get technology to HELP IMPLEMENT the solution.The solution is soley in the business domaim.Any solution is necessarilly a set of business processes that unually require people to trigger them or at least make some decisions or...

Tags: IT Success

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?

Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...

Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-23

Is Wikipedia maxed out?

Interesting....I don't see a reason Wikipedia would max out considering that every day new younger participants are entering the field. It's timeless relevance could diminish as new and younger editors focus on more up-to-date matters as Twitter, Sexting and Cloud computing, and less on the Roman Empire, the Great Depression...

Tags: Wiki, Achilles, Wikipedia, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Firefox faces browser clone war in China

Come on ZDNet!!!!Is this really newsworthy????Newsworthy? That's not the point...ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.If they had...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

CRM Association-Netherlands Rocks Het Huis!

I'm in love with Amsterdam....no wait, I love it but I'm not in love....no, hold on, I like it a lot, but I'm not in love, nor do I love it. The Theory.... Interestingly enough (to me at least and who else am I really writing this for...

Tags: Car, Amsterdam, Conference, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale

We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...

Tags: Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Small And Medium Business Need, European Enterprise 2.0 Scene, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-14

An interesting exchange on politics and IT

Was just thinking about thisExcept I was thinking about what I've heard Linux advocates say in the past, that most consumers make dumb technology choices, and whether this squares with advocating for free markets? Yes, I think it does. People will buy products that they can relate to and feel...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PRODUCTIVITY, information technology, Linux, computer, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-14

UK Santas getting gadget training before the holidays

Shopping List for regular readersExcellent idea training: then you can select with confidence from ZDNET bloggers' recommended XMAS gifts:1. Ed Bott: Windows Secrets by Paul Thurrott. You might get a signature on that because Ed is on a world tour fixing Vista PC's one at a time. Oh, you wanted...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, RAID, PRODUCTIVITY, Memory, UK Santas, gadget training, Xmas Gift, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Wireless users may be shut off if sharing copyrighted files

ACTA: The Bigger Picturehttp://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/Not likely to happenWhy? Because the internet companies are not going to shut off paying customers just because they are accused of sharing files 'illegally'.... they will either tell the companies to file a lawsuit against the people in question or give them some REAL evidence that...

Tags: Strategy, wireless, Acta, rights holder, shut-off, intellectual property

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Copyright associations want enforcement for free

The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...

Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debate

Mega-Corps & the worldThere is life beyond the Mega-Corp droneculture where management punishes theworker ants for a mistake and threatensthem with layoffs and pay cuts.No thanks, small enterprise businessis the groundwork, big mega-corpsare puppet shells with CEO's pullingthe strings.RE: Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debateWell putRE: Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debateUnfortunately...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enteprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Enterprise 2.0 - the non-debate

If I'd paid the full whack $2,495 to attend the Enterprise 2.0 conference I'd be demanding at least a partial refund. It seems the 'Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock' debate was less than a damp squib and more like a feeble whimper. Here's the back story: ...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Developing government's human voice

Yet another government bureacracy...[quote] We start with focusing on what is the mission of government and its various agencies. How can we meet these missions in a better way? How can we leverage technology to engage people we may not have had access to in the past? [/quote]The part of...

Tags: Vertical industries, Advertising & Promotion, agency, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

PONS Advanced English dictionary for Blackberry (Mobile)

PONS Advanced English Dictionary For almost 30 years PONS has been developing hallmark green dictionaries and language courses for lifelong learning - for students, professional users, travelers and hobby linguists. From Chinese to Turkish, for beginners or experts, over 500 dictionaries and language courses provide study materials and reference for...

Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Dictionary, Paragon Technologie GmbH, Internet, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-03