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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 still working on an Adobe Lightroom competitor, but with a social twist
- Maybe MS needs myLife instead of focusing on cloud everything.I've been a Windows user since Windows 1.0 on MS-DOS. I used Multiplan and Word with a mouse before Windows even existed. Over the years I've purchased so many copies of MS Office, OS upgrades, mice, keyboards, joysticks, development environments (MASM,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., photograph, Microsoft Windows Vista, Adobe Lightroom, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Psystar: Cocaine, car crashes and a chance to beat Apple
- Monopoly Much?How has apple been able to get away with this? Microsoft gets sued for sending their browser with their operating system while not blocking anyone else's browsers on their systems. Apple does not allow anyone else to use their operating system on other hardware, not sure how...
- Tags: Operating systems, car, Apple Inc., operating system, hackintosh, Psystar
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Nesox Email Marketer Personal Edition 1.92 (Windows)
- Nesox Email Marketer is a professional newsletter software and e-mail marketing software for mailing list building, e-mail campaigns creating, sending and tracking at your own computer. Email Marketer is the perfect desktop solution for all your e-mail marketing needs. It is also the most proven customer e-mail relationship management software...
- Tags: Newsletter, Microsoft Windows, Email Marketing, Nesox Solutions, Nesox Email Marketer, Email Marketer, E-mail, Marketing Research, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-11-12
- 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
- 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. Â 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. Â 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
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