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Ignoring a Problem Doesn't Make it Go Away

An audit of the Massachusetts state crime lab revealed that evidence in 16,000 criminal cases was never analyzed.Denial and information hiding are frequent components of the project failure lifecycle, whether in the crime lab or in the IT world. Eventually, the hidden problems see the light of day, usually after...

Tags: Project strategy, Government projects

Blog posts 2007-07-16

INTERVIEW: Paul Dandurand (CEO, PIEmatrix) on Project Failure and IT Governance

At the recent Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I was quietly eating essential nutrients cookies and coffee, when Paul Dandurand, founder and CEO of PIEmatrix, introduced himself. Paul’s company is developing a process management and governance solution for IT projects, and he’s no stranger to this field. Before starting PIEmatrix, Paul co-founded...

Tags: Risk, Project strategy, Interview, Enterprise2conf

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Four Questions for Selecting Mission-Critical Software

The Evolving Excellence blog has a strongly-worded article against implementing SAP at a particular company with $5M in annual revenue. The argument basically says that a simpler, less expensive, system would work just as well for a business of that relatively small size. While the truth of this perspective is...

Tags: Vendor relationships, Project strategy, Implementation

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Mid-Market ERP: "Soap Operas of the IT Industry"

SearchCIO sponsored development of a white paper, called As the World Turns: CIOs and their ERP Dramas registration required. It describes the risks. rewards, and failures of ERP implementations, based on the result of a survey conducted by the author. Check it out: Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems are the...

Tags: Project strategy, Project failures, CIO issues

Blog posts 2007-06-15

5 Common ERP Implementation Pitfalls

Big4Guy writes a blog on big software deployments. His posting on Five Common ERP Implementation Pitfalls has the ring of truth for me, so here they are:Pin-pointed clarity as to why we are going in for an ERP. What are the synergies that we expect, how will the new system...

Tags: Project strategy

Blog posts 2007-06-15

"Characteristics of a Troubled Project"

ESI International has written a white paper, called Saving Troubled Projects registration required, describing their methodology for diagnosing and intervening to save failing IT projects.Here are a few quotes from the white paper:Simply put, “troubled” means that the project’s variance trends of time, cost and scope have exceeded acceptable levels...

Tags: Project strategy, Project management

Blog posts 2007-06-13

Single-Market Madness

Prolific blogger Dennis Howlett is one of the founders and Chief Strategist of a new Internet-based service called FreeAgent Central. The company helps contractors, freelancers, consultants, and small businesses keep track of time-based billing, invoicing, taxes, and so on. It seems like a great idea, except for one major oversight:...

Tags: Project strategy

Blog posts 2007-06-11

Lunch with Arn Howitt (When Failure is NOT an Option)

I had lunch yesterday with Arn Howitt and Lydia Segal. Arn teaches at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government, and is Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government. He and Dutch Leonard run the Program on Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management at the Kennedy School. These...

Tags: Project strategy, Interview, Government projects

Blog posts 2007-06-08

Nibbles, Not Bites

Frank Hayes makes a strong case for smaller, more transparent IT projects. He says that smaller projects nibbles are more manageable and controllable than the larger big-bang projects bites that weve all come to know and love and also hate. From his article: Call that the “little nibble” approach...

Tags: Project strategy

Blog posts 2007-06-06

Alignment and its Discontents

David Jacobson makes reference to a Harvard Business School excerpt from a book titled Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies. As David points out, the article says:Following are the eight alignment checkpoints for corporate, business units, and support units of a typical multi-business organization to hit during...

Tags: Project strategy

Blog posts 2006-04-25

Virtual Distance Drives Risk

CIO Insight magazine has an article about the way Boeing is building its new 787 aircraft. In short, its an intensely global and collaborative effort, involving design participants in the US, Japan, Russia, and Italy. According to Scott Griffin, Boeing vice president and CIO, "We still do manufacturing, but we...

Tags: Risk, Project strategy, Project management

Blog posts 2006-04-16

Additional Resources

Microsoft drops 'Family Guy' special

Viewers watch Family Guy because they want tonot because it's forced in to their cubicles at work.That doesn't fit with the Windows brand, indeed.MSFT tried to alter the content of the show"Microsoft sent MacFarlane and Fox several notes expressing their concern over the show's content but ultimately decided just to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Family Guy, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap

Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....

Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

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

Clients: fat vs. thin, net vs. note

Can I suggestNetbooks with Win 7. Just installed it on a useless Linux netbook and it works fine and only cost me A$399 (which now is almost the same as US ;-))For once try and rein in your hobby horse and let the students join the new millenium.On and...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Thin clients, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NeatX, oh-so, netbook, thin client, Linux, desktop, operating system, tool

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Teradata unveils cloud strategy, answer for Oracle's Exadata machine

Data warehousing giant Teradata is outlining its cloud computing strategy including an internal cloud service and a public offering via Amazon Web Services. In addition, Teradata is rolling out an appliance it claims will provide a big performance boost. The announcements, timed for Teradata's partner conference in...

Tags: Strategy, Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Performance Claim, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Mono-mania: It's risky business

M$ must give away its patentsIf M$ want to have its technolgies adopted by FOSS it must give up all its patents and GPLed the code.Until then we must stay away from any code that resembles M$ technologies and support Stallman and FSF in their fight against software tirany.RE: Mono-mania:...

Tags: .NET, C#, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Development tools, Operating systems, Programming languages, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mono, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

T-Mobile 'everything unlimited' plan to offer voice, SMS, MMS, data for $50?

A new rumor has emerged that T-Mobile is planning to offer an 'everything unlimited' plan that will include unlimited voice, SMS, MMS and data for $50. BoyGeniusReport details the plan, internally nicknamed "Project Dark." That report attests that it's a multi-pronged assault, rolling...

Tags: MMS, Voice, T-Mobile, SMS, BoyGeniusReport, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Telephony, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-12

Two new tomes offer tips to guide your Green IT strategy

Believe it or not, I have a stack of 10 business books on my desk right now, begging to be read and reviewed. Two are pertinent for the loyal Green IT folks in the GreenTech Pastures, so I felt it appropriate to mention them as a scan some of the...

Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-09

The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...

Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company

Discussion threads 2009-10-06