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IT justice: Weighing the scales of failure

A recent ISACA Information Systems Audit and Control Association survey found 43 percent of respondents have killed in-process IT projects. Here's why that's good news. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Project, Information Technology, Steve, IT Governance Institute, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-07-29

Project portfolio management and IT governance

Can project portfolio management PPM help prevent IT failures? To find out, I spoke with David Hurwitz, Vice President of Marketing, and Steve Romero, IT Governance Evangelist, from CA's Clarity PPM solutions group. Implementing IT governance is important for organizations charged with overseeing groups of projects. Although...

Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Problem, Project Portfolio Management, IT Governance Institute, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Additional Resources

News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books

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. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...

Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Another view: SOA is like a mosquito, spreading viral data

Data GovernanceAs you cross organizational boundaries, you have to handle more than just policies and contracts to ensure that service providers and consumers are happy Enterprise SOA Governance.In most cases you even have organizational boundaries within your IT organization and you should institute appropriate governance of service production and deployment...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, organizational boundary, SOA

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Creating unified strategy to cross the IT / business chasm

Creating unified strategy to cross the IT / business chasmPractical specifics on building interaction would be helpfulCan't disagree with this article, but I would have liked to have heard some practical specifics on how to do things like "intentionally build an environment where folks on all sides of the table...

Tags: information technology, IT governance, strategy

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

IT security still has 'perilous gaps of risk': RSA

IT security still has 'perilous gaps of risk': RSAIT Security Firms do have to cooperateBut until they are working for 'non-profit' I don't really see them doing that. It's all about the money, and keeping their best virus and other bad thing detection schemes to themselves is simply business as...

Tags: Strategy, SECURITY, PCSRF, information technology, IT security, ITGI, RSA Security Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

'Business-IT alignment' is dead... whatever it was

Long the subject of countless articles, blogs, and seminars: Do IT folks "get" the business? How do we achieve "business-IT alignment"? Perhaps its time to put this tired argument to rest. IT folks not only "get" the business, they are the business. The business...

Tags: Information Technology, Business, Fred Cummins, Strategy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Canada not the solution either

Canada not the solution eitherA donkey is a horse designed by a committee ...I work in healthcare reimbursement in the U.S. The bottom line is that any multi-payor system will have all sorts of problems. Payors spend huge amounts of time and money trying to avoid their obligations and...

Tags: Research & Development, Government, Vertical industries, donkey, Fraser Institute, Harper, payor

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

IBM on Corporate Social Responsibility: Collaboration, Integration and NGO Foot Soldiers

Corporate responsibility at IBM is a class act so high expectations then when the IBM Institute for Business Value this week came out with a piece on CSR: Attaining sustainable growth through corporate social responsibility. Dazzling stuff but one or two clangers as well. IBM...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Collaboration, Revolution, Business, IBM Corp., Integration, NGO, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-16

What the statistics are telling us about SOA

There were plenty of surveys and studies around SOA adoption and issues this past year. Overall, the surveys point to widespread interest in SOA, and results among those companies with SOA already in progress. Here are a few highlights from this year's studies of SOA adoption: ...

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

Blog posts 2007-12-20

New research: "inept" IT management in UK

New research: "inept" IT management in UKThree things to consider re prioritisationHi Mike,The above makes depressing reading. You might be interested in a recent blog I wrote called ‘Rolling Rocks and Landing the Catch', where I touched on ‘prioritisation'.Here is a snippet:"…Working in IT, we're all rolling the rock...

Tags: information technology, IT administration, NEW RESEARCH

Discussion threads 2007-11-27

Enterprise 2.0 IT governance: Whole Foods bans execs from blogs and chat

Enterprise 2.0 IT governance: Whole Foods bans execs from blogs and chatWell that will get me to write a letter to Whole FoodsThe policy is illegal on its face. But Whole Foods is a US company started in Texas, where Bush was Governor, so I will cut them a bit...

Tags: Blogging, Whole Foods, blog, company policy, big business, Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2007-11-07

J. Craig Venter: The emerging biosynthetic world

I am attending the Web 2.0 Summit. It's the final day of the conference and human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter is being interviewed by Tim O'Reilly. Listening to Venter, you get the feeling that Silicon Valley, the home of companies like Intel, Apple, Cisco, HP and Google, is the...

Tags: Biology, J. Craig Venter, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-19

'Whole-brained' enterprises need SOA: here are the numbers to prove it

Okay, okay, we get it -- business and IT need to be aligned. They're obviously not in alignment, or we wouldn't have 50,000 conference speakers and analyst reports telling us so. So, let's have at it, and align away.Finally, a study that provides hard numbers on the connection between business-IT...

Tags: SOA Surveys and Research, General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Microsoft’s 4th of July Trans-Atlantic assault on document standards

On what is normally a slow period for news, Microsoft launched a concerted campaign to displace ODF and PDF as document access and retention standards on both sides of the Atlantic. Microsoft has proposed and lobbied for OOXML as an alternative to ODF and XPS as an alternative to Adobe’s...

Tags: Standards, OOXML, ODF, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-07-09

Analyst Report: Multi-Entity Master Data Management: The 4th Generation of MDM - Is Your MDM Road Map "Strategic" or "Myopic"?

Since 2006, the CDI-MDM Institute has semi-annually hosted in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific the world's largest gathering of IT professionals focused specifically on customer data integration CDI, master data management MDM, and data governance. These sold-out events offer MDM professionals and their business partners opportunities to: (1) create and...

Tags: Analyst Report, Master Data Management

White papers 2007-06-01

Another view: 'Magic number' for SOA services threshold is 'nuts'

Miko Matsumura, VP of marketing at webMethods, took issue with a recent post in which I relayed an opinion that 50 seems to be the threshold at which Web services may require some better care and feeding, with governance, registry, management, and all that good stuff. Robert Meyer of TIBCO...

Tags: General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-04-19

'Fifty' may be the magic number for SOA governance

'Fifty' may be the magic number for SOA governancewow that's nuts!I'm pretty amazed by this "magic number" and am going to try to heap scorn on it without any scorn getting on my good friend Joe McKendrick who is just here to report the things people come up with to...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), magic number, SOA governance, SOA, Use Case

Discussion threads 2007-04-13

More results on use of Web 2.0 in business emerge

The last few weeks have seen a series of interesting new reports, studies, and papers on the past, present, and future of Web 2.0 concepts and applications as applied to businesses. Most notable for many industry watchers have been fairly rigorous new works by McKinsey & Company as well...

Tags: Crowdsourcing, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Business Process Management, Architecture of Participation, Blogs, Business Models, Wikis, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Two-Way Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, SOA, RSS, Open APIs, Mashups, Lightweight Service Models, Hype, Governance, Global SOA, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups

Blog posts 2007-04-03

SOA analysts examine TIBCO's SOA tools, ESBs as platform, webMethods Fabric 7, HP's foray into BI

Read a full transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 9, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine TIBCOs latest SOA tools news, the role of ESBs as...

Tags: .NET, database, datacenters, HP, IBM, Interarbor Solutions, Microsoft, Oracle, Podcasts, SOA, SOA Governance, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems, Virtualization, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-02-18