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Six steps to an effective data governance program

As data governance becomes a key benchmark of a company's responsibility to enhance and protect data, here are six simple steps that start to develop a program based on individual needs. In the past few years, dozens of high-profile incidents involving data mismanagement have gained international attention. Caught off...

Tags: Data, Organization, Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Databases, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, data governance, mismanagement, Steve Alder, IBM, Special to ZDNet

News items 2008-08-06

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The social media corporate identity crisis

The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...

Tags: brand, social media, twitter, joel postman, popeyes chicken, q., branding, social networking, marketing, online communications, advertising & promotion, jennifer leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Boo hoo: Pickens took a loss on Yahoo

Boo hoo: Pickens took a loss on YahooKatie CouricListen to Ms. Couric;s interview of Mr. Pickens and listen carefully to the questions. It is obvious that Katie Couric doesn't "get it". Her political agenda shows clearly throughout this interview. Mr. Pickens, for whatever reasons of his own, was pitching his...

Tags: INTERNET, Financial accounting, Yang, Pickens, Yahoo! Inc., Boo Hoo

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...

Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboard

Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboardLarge services such as this can not...are too big to manage. Managing this type of technology with technology will time after time result in mismanagement. Just like Gmail and other that are spamming the Internet.Networks require real human intervention to manage properly. Anything less is...

Tags: Spam, Twitter, anti-spam, anti-spam effort

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Google has legacy system issues too

Google's growth has led to redundant systems and the need for a "Project Spaghetti" designed to unravel the potential rat's nest. That's one of the big items in a Wall Street Journal story on how Google is struggling to sell ads on YouTube. Most of the world...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Legacy System, YouTube Inc., Armstrong, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Now I know we're in a recession

Now I know we're in a recessionPricingYou can't sell coffee at those prices in a mainstrean coffee chain on a long term basis. Certainly not when it's either a coffe or a gallon of regular unleaded :-) A Sophie's choice indeed.Well, Starbucks in Vienna, Austria, EU, does (Starbucks is more...

Tags: Auto Industry, Starbucks Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world

Before all of you start sending nastygrams my way about how tasteless and premature this blog post is, let me just say upfront I agonized about whether or not it should even be written in the first place, and my industry colleagues I consulted about it told me that the...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Strategy, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Icahn: I want Yang gone from Yahoo

Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooThat's grounds for white collar crime.The illegal hiding of important facts from shareholders is basically a criminal act.Let's hope the REAL OWNERS the shareholder get to do what they want, and not what Yang wants.RE: Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooWhile the stockholders...

Tags: Corporate governance, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Yang, Balmer, shareholder, board, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

A successful Veterans Administration is dangerous

A successful Veterans Administration is dangerousAgreedIt has not always been so. In years past the VA did an outstanding job, and it remains a very cost-effective provider. The question is whether its recent mismanagement is fixable, or endemic to its nature.Do you know any Vets receivingmedical care? I help...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Veterans Administration, medical care

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

Supreme Court won't block Novell's antitrust suit against Microsoft

On the opening day of Novell's BrainShare conference comes the news that the U.S. Supreme Court won't block Novell's antitrust suit against Microsoft over WordPerfect. WordPerfect, for those not steeped in industry history, is a word-processing product that used to be a credible competitor to Microsoft Word...

Tags: Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Dear stockholders: Please believe us, Microsoft undervalues us

Dear stockholders: Please believe us, Microsoft undervalues usenough already! They told them no!News must be very slow on the M$ innovation front. They told them no the past weekend, and you still beating a dead horse.It's like M$ was turned down for a prom date and can deal...

Tags: Corporate governance, Strategy, SMART Money, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

Yahoo employee Twitters his layoff

Yahoo employee Twitters his layoffM$ should take responsability for this!If it was not for M$ the world would be a lot better now!I hope all concerned......will find work soon. Never a good place to find oneself.And, there was a certain person saying that the layoffs would not happensince Microsoft...

Tags: Workforce management, Microsoft Corp., layoff, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

EU court: File sharers don't have to be named

EU court: File sharers don't have to be namedWhat the ???So in the EU if you sue someone for a wrongful death in civil court no one has to give you information? Sounds like the EU alright...Rights of the individualI dont want to argue the specific point being discussed...

Tags: Real Estate Value, FILE SHARERS, copyright-holder, EU Court

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

Intel's OLPC pullout sets up XO vs Classmate PC duel

Intel's OLPC pullout sets up XO vs Classmate PC duelFollow the money - there's your answer.I wonder if Negroponte wanted Intel to not only kill the competing Classmate (we don;t need no stink'n competition) but also wanted Intel to send money to AMD for life support on their end of...

Tags: intel, One Laptop Per Child project, Negroponte, Intel Corp., Classmate PC

Discussion threads 2008-01-04

WordPress vs. an army of clunky content management systems

WordPress vs. an army of clunky content management systemsOpinions VaryI'm not sure everyone would agree with Mr. Howlett regarding how far WordPress is being stretched. I'm working on a personal site right now that will use nothing more than WordPress to manage both the pages and the "current news"...

Tags: Content management, Enterprise software, Wordpress, content management system, clunky content management system

Discussion threads 2007-12-18

UK Rural Payments Agency (RPA): IT failure and gross incompetence screws farmers

A combination of IT failures and management incompetence have prevented the Rural Payments Agency RPA, which administers UK farm subsidy payments, from successfully executing its core mission despite years of effort. This extremely negative assessment is based on a new report issued by National Audit Office NAO. Accenture is implementing...

Tags: Payment, Agency, Information Technology, Accenture Ltd., U.K., Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-12-16

'How to ruin a SOA program and bankrupt IT'

'How to ruin a SOA program and bankrupt IT'Srewing Up an SOA Effort: Another PersepctiveGreat article Joe! I too have been thinking of ways to ruin an SOA effort and posted ten ways to do it on my own blog (http://nowheretohide.org/wordpress/?p=6). Feel free to comment. r/ChuckIn truth most...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, SOA Program, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-09-04

Wisconsin's Apologist for IT Failure

In recent times, Wisconsin has experienced major IT meltdowns, prompting the State Auditor to release a report recommending various IT reforms. Wisconsin's state legislature also appointed a special task force to review failing IT projects, suggesting the state genuinely takes IT failures seriously. I find these steps to be...

Tags: Project failures, Government projects

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Embedded perceptions: Unix vs Windows

Embedded perceptions: Unix vs WindowsWould you like fries with that OS?A strange article Mr Murphy![i]"The product is actually not all that bad"[/i] is presumably your reference to McWindows, yet your assertion that the owner managed companies care more about their products misses Unix out and is a better fit to...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, server, Unix, IT IS, food, advertisement, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-06-21