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- Greed, Arrogance, Inexperience, and Stupidity
- Greed, arrogance, inexperience, and stupidity are the essential quartet driving many IT project failures. Bring this set of factors together, and failure is practically inevitable. All too often, vendors and customers angle to get as much as possible out of each other, ignoring the fact that fairness and mutual respect...
- Tags: Vendor relationships, Project failures
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- When Friends Disagree
- This one is short, but irresistible.According to the Kansas City Business Journal, Sprint Nextel is suing IBM for $6.4 million, demanding a refund for over119,000 hours in labor worked on an outsourcing contract. The contract included a clause guaranteeing that Sprint would receive specific productivity improvements as a result of...
- Tags: Vendor relationships, Project failures
- Blog posts 2006-05-29
- Throwing Good Money After Bad?
- The Charlotte Observers Carrie Levine describes an ugly IT situation faced by Mecklenburg County, NC. Heres what happened. In 2001, Mecklenburg County signed a contract with a company called PEC Solutions subsequently bought by Nortel Government Systems to build a criminal justice information system. The original budget isnt stated in...
- Tags: Vendor relationships, Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2006-05-20
- Separation Anxiety
- An Infoworld article by Dan Tynan describes what can happen when the IT vendor who once loved you now hates you. From the article:&consider this cautionary tale of a small biotech firm in the Rocky Mountains that decided to dump its IT consultant. When the consultant got wind he was...
- Tags: Vendor relationships, Project failures
- Blog posts 2006-04-27
Additional Resources
- On IT failure: IDC group vice president Mike Fauscette [podcast]
- IDC's Group Vice President, Mike Fauscette, leads a team of enterprise software analysts for one of the largest research firms in the world. To better understand IT failures, read this interview. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Vice President, International Data Corp., Podcasts, Strategy, Internet, Management, Michael Krigsman, Software, Software Company, Failure, Tools & Techniques
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- JetBlue unveils high-tech terminal Oct. 22; IT as customer service tool
- Joseph Eng, executive vice president of JetBlue's systems and technology, said the company will unveil its high-tech terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Oct. 22. The terminal when it launches will be the culmination of one big technology project. JetBlue's terminal at JFK,...
- Tags: Customer Service, Information Technology, JetBlue Airways Corp., Tool, Projects, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Operational Accounting, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- 80 ways to mix open source and business
- Open source and business do mix. In fact, according to Matthew Aslett at the 451 Group, you can mix open source into more than 80 combinations of development model, licensing model, and revenue schemes. Usually, people talk about three licensing combos: Proprietary, mixed, and "pure" open source...
- Tags: Aslett, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- News to know: Gartner, Firefox 3.1, Apple notebook event, Intel
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Gartner: Top 10 technologies to watch over the next three years Larry Dignan: IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers ...
- Tags: Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Apple MacBook, Gartner Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Notebook Event, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Use this presentation to plot your organization's projects
- Classifying your projects will help you ensure that they're aligned with your company's business goals. Jay Rollins classifies projects as infrastructure, transactional, informational, or strategic -- a system that can help you balance your project portfolio so that it reflects your company's risk tolerance. This PowerPoint presentation will help you...
- Tags: Project, Jay Rollins, Blogging, Microsoft Office, Internet, Office Suites, Software
- Download resources 2008-10-15
- Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)
- In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession, as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...
- Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers
- Gartner on Tuesday outlined its grand IT challenges from 2008 to 2033 and it includes a world where you'll never have to charge your device. That was one of the futurama type predictions outlined by Gartner analyst Ken McGhee at the firm's Symposium ITxpo. These prediction presentations...
- Tags: Device, Information Technology, Gesture, ROI, Programmer, Programming, Wireless, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Development Tools, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiral
- Jennifer Leggio is on the road. Guest editorial by Ryan Kuder I was very publicly laid off from Yahoo! back in February. It's a gut-wrenching experience for anyone who has gone through it. At the time, my choices were to get a new...
- Tags: Dream, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Start-up, Jennifer Leggio, Ryan Kuder, VC, Angels, Networking
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- How green is your vendor?
- Gartner analyst Simon Mingay on Tuesday unveiled ratings for technology vendors to highlight who's talking green and who's actually delivering. Just don't expect anything too quantitative just yet. Mingay's presentation at the Gartner Symposium ITXpo caught my attention given that every vendor is...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Bureaucracy and open source: Do they mix?
- Bureaucracy and open source: Do they mix?Being left alone may not be a problem.Remember the executive whose open source company was purchased by Red Hat. He complained that Red Hat wouldn't provide the resources needed for the project, but instead expected a "community" to do the work at much...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- What OpenOffice site crash means
- What OpenOffice site crash meansSo, I should pay for free software so I don't pay Microsoft?It's not for everyone. However, the reason Microsoft has more robust features is because they spend more money on it. That money is funded by higher prices for their software. If you or your company...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, object-oriented, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, free software, Open Office Writer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Are software megavendors too big to stumble?
- Are software megavendors too big to stumble?Upstarts are unlikely to arise...... so long as open source limits the profitability of alternatives. And, as Oracle has shown, when there's real value and credibility, an open source project can be purchased becoming part of the stack.So the real question is, which...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, software-as-a-service, software
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Are software megavendors too big to stumble?
- There's a good chance you get most--if not all of your software--from four massive companies: IBM, Microsoft, SAP and Oracle. And their game is simple: Grab more of your so-called wallet share. The big question is whether these vendors are so massive that they can do no...
- Tags: Software, Gartner Inc., Tools & Techniques, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- SAP's forced march may be good news
- At SAP TechEd Berlin, Leo Apotheker, co-CEO reinforced the message that the enhancement packages will significantly reduce the amount of testing that customers need undertake as part of an upgrade. However, consultants disagreed. Jim Spath of Black and Decker for instance said: "There is no way we...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Audience breakdown of for podcast downloaders
- as groups of internet users February-April 2006 August 2006 May 2008 Total internet users 7% 12% 19% Men 9% 15% 22% Women 5% 8% 16% Age 18-29 10% 14% 27% Age 30-49 8% 12% 20% Age 50-64 5%...
- Tags: Internet User, Experience, Podcasts, Internet, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, NB
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- News to know: IT turbulence, Windows 7, Facebook, Apple HDTV
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IT warning: Turbulence ahead CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad Sean...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Open Source, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
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