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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
- Take steps to prevent IT myopia [video]
- Take steps to prevent IT myopia [video]Project management as an enablerYou make the case that project management inhibits IT strategic business value. However, each tips you present to stop viewing IT in project-related terms are clearly articulated in the Project Management Institute's PMI project process rigor for anyone's Project...
- Tags: Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Purchasing & Procurement, Quality, video, information technology, project management, PMI, risk management plan
- Discussion threads 2009-07-02
- KOALA in Depth: Accountability - Foundation for Stakeholder Engagement
- Asset accountability is more than simple assignment tracking - it's going to the effort to understand who the key stakeholders for an asset or service are, then maintaining the discipline to include the right people in relevant maintenance, change/update, strategic deployment, and other planning activities and IT management processes. The...
- Tags: Asset, Avocent Corp., Accountability, Asset Accountability, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?Is our culture holding us back?I'm thinking that one of the big challenges to moving forward with any information technology is cultural change. We've seen an amazing capacity for younger generations those in their teens and twenties today to be able...
- Tags: data model, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- As Sun's world turns (worse): The latest
- As Sun's world turns worse: The latestSun will be fineas long as M$ is keeping their long nose out of Sun's businesss.RE: As Sun's world turns worse: The latestAside from the language, I fully agree with your point, and so should every other SUN shareholder..or stakeholder. SUN execs have created...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Financial accounting, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., shareholder
- Discussion threads 2009-04-08
- Real Project 2009 1.0 (Windows)
- Real Project 2009 professional Edition is to let Project Manager manage their project easier and to increase the successful rate of project completion. More than Gantt Chart - It provides an ease of use interface for project manager to create Work Breakdown Structure WBS, Gantt Chart, Network Diagram, Critical Path,Team...
- Tags: Gantt Chart, Project Manager, Microsoft Windows, Grand Harvest, PERT Analysis
- Software downloads 2009-04-06
- Using Modeling and Simulation for Policy Decision Support in Identity Management
- The process of making IT security policy decisions, within organizations, is complex: it involves reaching consensus between a set of stakeholders (key decision makers, e.g. CISOs/CIOs, domain experts, etc.) who might have different views, opinions and biased perceptions of how policies need to be shaped. This involves multiple negotiations and...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Decision Support, Stakeholder, Policy Decision, Modeling, Identity Management, Research & Development, Data Mining, Authentication/Encryption, Tools & Techniques, Free Trade, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Security, Management, Finance
- White papers 2009-03-21
- Risk Management: Protect and Maximize Stakeholder Value
- All companies must take risks to survive, and the most successful companies are those that actively integrate risk management into their decision-making processes. This white paper explains how a risk management program can help identify opportunities for value creation while also protecting against potential threats.
- Tags: Decision-making, Risk Management, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Security, Finance, Management
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Getting on the wavelength
- There's a solid, wide focused article by Tim Weber on the BBC News website's Davos coverage which articulates well the challenge many companies have in understanding and engaging with the internet on the most basic strategic level. Readers of sophisticated technical sites like...
- Tags: Knowledge, Social Media, Accountability, Perception, Internet, Public Relations, Blogging, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Liquidity Risk Management
- The financial markets cannot hope to recover until confidence is restored. Banks need to recover their faith in each other and rebuild their reputations across their stakeholder base. They must also regain the trust of the regulators. For that to happen, banks must achieve two things. First, they will have...
- Tags: Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Liquidity, Financial Services, Investment, Finance
- White papers 2008-12-11
- Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?
- It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...
- Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Microsoft Office System Webcast: Creating Custom Stakeholder Views in Project 2007 (Level 200)
- Creating project status reports for multiple stakeholders can be challenging since each stakeholder often requires different information in a different format. Microsoft Office Project 2007 has powerful communication tools that allow efficiently communicate with project team members, senior management, or project customers. The presenter of this webcast shows how to...
- Tags: Webcast, Stakeholder, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Project 2007, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Webcasts 2008-11-19
- IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (IT GRC): An Organizational Imperative - What It Is, and Why You Should Know
- Regulatory mandates, emergence of new forms of risk, and a growing stakeholder focus on managing them are the principal drivers pressuring organizations to adopt IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance IT GRC strategies. Research shows that the key to success is introduction of a coherent system with a governance structure that...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Compliance, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Bad leadership causes failed IT [guest blogger]
- Bad leadership causes failed IT [guest blogger]From the Obvious to the executionMuch of what you say is true, and as you point out much has been written on this subject, and very little changes.Having delivered some very successful projects myself, the biggest success factor is a clear delineation between, business,...
- Tags: Strategy, Leadership, True Leadership, information technology, Bad leadership cause, Bad leadership, guest blogger
- Discussion threads 2008-06-29
- How to Define and Value IT Services
- View Available Dates and LocationsIT organizations struggle with business-IT alignment and business service management. Challenges are that IT organizations often cannot accurately define what they do, and IT may not understand the priority of IT projects to the business. By defining your IT services, you will start...
- Tags: Information Technology, Challenges, ITIL, It Services, Strategy, Management
- Training 2008-06-01
- Research: 25 percent of web projects fail
- Over 30 percent of web development teams deliver projects late or over-budget, according to a survey commissioned by Ruby development shop, New Bamboo. These findings are consistent with studies of larger IT initiatives showing failure rates of 30%-70%. According to the report: ...
- Tags: Web, Web Development, Web Project, Channel Management, Marketing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?
- Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...
- Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis
- The UK Identity & Passport Service IPS has released an excellent post-implementation assessment report describing lessons learned from five key 2007 projects. In an unusually transparent move for any government agency, the report candidly examines each project's objectives, deliverables, and areas for improvement. ...
- Tags: Project, Procurement, Analysis, IPS, Purchasing & Procurement, Government, Business Operations, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Project management screw-up #5: Lacking the right sponsorship
- For any project to succeed, it's crucial to get an appropriate level of sponsorship. This sample chapter from The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass looks at characteristics of the ideal sponsor, why you might need a stakeholder steering committee,...
- Tags: FT Press, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Book chapters 2008-05-13
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