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- 13 reasons IT hates metrics
- I've blogged about the importance of establishing clear metrics to help align IT and business, especially in relation to areas such as project portfolio management. In a great counterpoint, Ed Yourdon has compiled a list of "13 common political problems associated with metrics initiatives." Ed's a...
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
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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...
- News items 2009-11-23
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- The clouds are gathering for Coupa
- Sometimes I read something and it makes me smile from ear to ear, most often because it generates another of those ah-ha moments that keep tech people motivated. Reading Vinnie Mirchandani's SCARS: SaaS and Cloud Allowance Rebate System was one of those moments. Much as I am tempted...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Manes: no bones about it, 'SOA' (as we knew it) is still dead
- "I never intended to say that organizations shouldn't do SOA (they MUST!), but SOA teams are hard pressed to get funding for their efforts unless they focus on delivering services that generate measurable business value." - Anne Thomas Manes Anne Thomas Manes...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Novell PlateSpin Recon 3.6
- Novell recently launched a new version of PlateSpin Recon, version 3.6. I've been watching both Novell and PlateSpin, the company Novell acquired a while ago (see Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor? and Additional thoughts on Novell acquisition of PlateSpin) for a long time. It is pretty...
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Microsoft tackles patch management metrics with Project Quant
- In partnership with security analyst Rich Mogull right, Microsoft is set to roll out a new research project to help businesses compute the total cost of the patch-management cycle, from testing and distributing a fix to user deployment of the patch. According to this Dennis Fisher report...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Top 10 undergraduate courses for the CIO track
- If you’re thinking about becoming a CIO, you can lay a good foundation by taking courses that translate into the skills and knowledge you’ll be using every day. Seasoned CIO Jay Rollins offers a list of essential classes that will help you get ready for the job. For more posts...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Four important SOA metrics that need to be watched
- One of the challenges of seeing ROI from SOA is failure to measure. Many SOA projects are launched in which managers don't know how well the initiative may have succeeded beyond anecdotal evidence. It may, for all anybody knows, a raging success. Likewise, how do we really know when an...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Green tech calculators you can count on, literally
- For those seeking practical tools that can help them get a better handle on the energy and carbon dioxide emissions they're producing, I have not one but three different online calculator type tools to point to in this blog entry. They aren't exactly comparable, but serve different purposes that might...
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Trade group releases initial green storage measurement guidelines
- This will be the year in which IT managers, data center administrators and other constituents who care will finally get some more industry-wide visibility into what their green IT or eco-efficiency expectations should be for storage, servers and other data center level technology. Up this week: The...
- Blog posts 2009-01-24
- SOA: it's only rocket science
- What can go wrong with SOA? Let me count the ways. Better yet, Miko Matsumura, Bjoern Brauel, and Jignesh Shah, all with SoftwareAG, have done the counting for us, in a new book that shows how to overcome various SOA issues, called "SOA Adoption for Dummies." (Available...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?
- I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Survey: Companies struggle with SOA's hard-to-pin-down ROI
- Survey: Companies struggle with SOA's hard-to-pin-down ROILooking in all the wrong placesThe real problem with ROI is that many IT shops are looking for the ROI within IT instead of the business. I totally disagree with the survey that states reuse is where the biggest ROI is. IT...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Green is really just another way of saying 'energy-efficient'
- OK, we all know that when it comes to green tech, it's REALLY about lean tech. Right? I mean, I'm sure that's why many of the IT managers who read this blog even bother spending time. That's what CDW figures, too, so in addition to the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Tim Berners-Lee talks cranberry sauce and Linked Data in New York City
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to the stage in New York City last night, to deliver the final keynote of the day at JupiterMedia's new semantic web event, Linked Data Planet. The ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel was certainly busier than earlier in the day, as a smattering...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Is SOA delivering value? We need to understand this better
- Loraine Lawson just posted some thoughts about the results of a new qualitative study, sponsored by SAP and conducted in conjunction with the University of St. Gallen, which suggests that businesses are starting to see some results from SOA initiatives. Most organizations simply don't know what...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless
- News Corp. confirmed what had been reported for weeks: Fox Interactive revenue isn't going to hit its targets. The problem: Social networking is still very hard to monetize. Does inventory matter when you can't sell it? Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s operating chief, delivered his state of MySpace...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- A Six Sigma Approach to Efficient Retail Banking Operations
- In 2007, a major bank embraced Iontas' Focus software suite as part of its Six Sigma initiative to streamline front-office operations. The bank was experiencing high turnover and struggling with varied execution styles among tellers. Compounding the challenges, the bank had no baseline metrics on teller activities that they could...
- Case studies 2008-05-02
- Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art
- Microsoft has been quietly building a platform to help its own product teams -- and ultimately, those from other companies -- turn product planning more of a science and less of a black art. Microsoft calls the test bed the Microsoft Experimentation Platform ExP. Here is how...
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
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