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- 7 fundamentals of IT project success
- 7 FundamentalsI agree that most of the failures are not because of technical issues. Project managers often focus on the mechanics of managing the activities. There needs to be a focus on business value. This can only come from the business.Adding to the Stakeholder involvement item you...
- Tags: Strategy, IT Solutions, Project Leadership, information technology, IT Project Success
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- IT project success is all about getting buy-in
- I just spent three days at a conference with 70 other people spending time listening, learning and talking about digital object repositories, methods for naming and identifying these digital objects amongst shared repositories, and methodologies for ensuring quality of these digital objects. The information and discussion was interesting, thought-provoking and...
- Tags: This Group, information technology, buy-In
- Blog posts 2006-05-04
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- 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
- ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall
- Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?
- Project name changedIt's Microsoft Live Mess now under Ballmer's leadership.RE: So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?i hope they don't get rid of or just leave it alone because i really like it. Actually, it works very well.It might be stuck in some pre-release limbo but whats already available to use does...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Live Mesh
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Apple's app approval revolt: Will it matter? Maybe
- Once somebody matches the ease of the App store,Create a desktop application which makes it brain-dead simple to buy, install, arrange, and sync software and multimedia content with the Droid and it will take off like crazy. That's about the only thing the iPhone has over the Droid at this...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, developer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Apple hints at possible pen-based tablet
- Pretty much anything that includes the words "Apple" and "tablet" in the same sentence is going to get the attention of the blognoscenti, but when it comes from Apple itself, people pay attention. Exhibit A is 9 to 5 Mac's piece today about a patent...
- Tags: Patent, Handwriting Recognition, Termination, Apple Inc., Ink Manager, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-11-12
- Open source needs successful champions
- Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...
- Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server
- What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-10-29
- The Real Reason Executive Participation Creates IT Project Success
- Most mid to large scale IT projects, whether they are ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence, or other business transformation initiatives last at least 3 months, and most are 6 months to 2 years or more depending on the size, scale, and scope of the company and IT effort. Combine this with...
- Tags: Information Technology, R3Now.com, Reason Executive Participation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software
- White papers 2009-10-28
- Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0
- Its not too often I endorse a new service - in fact, I never have without a lot of due diligence and at least some production history.  So, for the first...and potentially only....time ever, I'm telling you that I'm truly excited about the launch of Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0.  I'm...
- Tags: Socialtext, Enterprise 2.0, Framework, Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman, Ross, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Testers to get Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 this week; final by March 2010
- Side-by-side installationYou said "Also unlike its predecessors, .Net 4 can be installed side-by-side with the previously released .Net 3.5"Notwithstanding the fact that .Net 4's predecessors actually was .Net 3.5, haven't all previous versions of .Net featured side-by-side installation?translations....[i]Microsoft is touting .Net 4 as being 81 percent smaller than its predecessors,...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Gartner: You want cloud? You need SOA first
- Gartner still peddling that snake oil? You gotta be kidding. Gartner still peddling the SOA snake oil? ROFL! In all my years of IT I've never seen a SOA project deliver anything useful. And certainly not on budget. With all the billions thrown at...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, Gartner Inc., Gartner Still
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- Why the big Android bandwagon?
- One minor nit to pickTo succeed, however, it will have to deliver products as good or better than the iPhone, at the same or less cost, with just as many apps.It needs just as many good apps. It doesn't need all the flashlights or fart apps or things like that....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Smart phones, Branding, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- On the future of Open Source thought leadership
- It's time we recognized the advantages of bothIMHO it's time to recognize the advantages in both, and not to do silly things like pretend that somehow software is a moral agent.I can certainly see the advantage of software being open source. It helps the educational community, and gives tools to...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Free Software, leadership, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, open source, proprietary software, Microsoft Corp., hardware, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Open source is sold and FOSS is not
- I'm confusedAre you advocating breaking the GPL license by selling GPL based products by 'open source' companies?We know NT Selling software is not a violation of the GPLSelling softare is not a violation of the GPL. Not in any way, shape or form. In the words of the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, F/OSS, GPL, software, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- TD Bank botches IT system consolidation; Customer havoc ensues
- But hey, don't worry... TD's got you covered.As reported in the local news last night, a woman who went to withdraw money from her account to pay her rent found that the ATM would not let her. So after discussing the situation with TD bank employees at her branch,...
- Tags: Financial services, information technology, Regis, TD Bank, bank, IT system consolidation
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- I've joined the Dachis Group
- As the worlds of internal enterprise, small, medium sized businesses and partner collaboration networks evolve, an increasing level of intersection with the social media world - the conversation with end users - is inevitable. The implications of this are enormous. While many people can grasp the immediate...
- Tags: Social Media, Vision, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Seven ways companies go wrong with SOA
- Remember, SOA is a journey, not a quick overnight fix. It's a transformative process that your organization will follow for the long run. A few years back, I put together a list of where companies appeared to be steering in the wrong direction in terms of...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- 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
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