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Management
by Scott Wilson on December 31, 2007
I think that The Peter Principle is a fairly well-recognized, if not universally accepted, phenomena, but up until recently I had no idea that there is a real, well-studied psychological tendency that...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on December 30, 2007
Version 3 of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), a best-practices framework which should be in the lexicon of every CIO, was released this May without a great deal of fanfare. Se...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on December 28, 2007
It's that time again when pundits are assembling their top ten lists of the previous year and holding forth with bold new predictions for the coming year (and only rarely bothering to tie last yea...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on December 27, 2007
I'm starting a new category of posts here, provisionally called "The Vision Thing." The role of the CIO is in some flux and there are and will be a great deal of debates before it ultima...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on December 26, 2007
If you're going to talk about virtualization, then it may be helpful to get some perspective on the relatively short history of the concept by reviewing the vision and predictions of one of the le...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on December 26, 2007
Or perhaps not, if this Seattle P-I survey of media sources is broadly reflective of general attitudes toward the not-quite-new-anymore operating system.
Citing year-end wrap-ups in Wired, CNET, PC W...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on December 21, 2007
For a snapshot of how the other half lives (CIOs at major technology companies-oh, to be employed by a business whose business is your business!), see this recent Information Week interview of IBM CIO...
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SOA
by Scott Wilson on December 20, 2007
John Halamka, who you may be familiar with as the blogging CIO of Harvard Medical School, also chimes in on the subject today detailing how HMS and CareGroup have used the concept to standardize their...
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SOA
by Scott Wilson on December 20, 2007
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can be a difficult concept to wrap your head around, which is really more a comment on the concept than the capabilities of your head-like "Web 2.0" there...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on December 19, 2007
I see now that SIIA is offering a $500 bounty on software pirates found selling their warez on public auction sites over the holidays. The program only runs through January 30th and only the first 100...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on December 18, 2007
Okay, I promise, I'll get off this topic after today, but I just ran across this article at Baseline which reinforces my basic point from yesterday: Google is going after business customers. Micro...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on December 17, 2007
Mary Jo Foley posts another way of looking at the same thing.
The numbers she posts regarding the adoption of online office suites are telling: almost no one has used them, almost everyone who does u...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on December 17, 2007
I was chatting with a friend of mine who works for Microsoft over the weekend and the topic of online office suites came up and he voiced the opinion that Office Live Workspaces, as such things go, b...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on December 14, 2007
Amazon is rolling out a limited beta of the latest scalable SaaS offering, a database called "SimpleDB." Together with the previously offered Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on December 13, 2007
CIO Magazine has delivered their annual "State of the CIO" article covering a survey of nearly 600 CIOs and aggregating the responses into an overall view of the profession.
The best part o...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on December 13, 2007
I have been meaning, for the past several days, to come up with some insightful and unique take on the brouhaha that erupted last weekend over who in the blogosphere "understood" enterprise ...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on December 11, 2007
Apparently Senior management has arrived at a Zen-like "I'm okay; you're okay" place with regards to IT projects now; Larry Dignan reports on a recent survey by Dynamic Markets indic...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on December 10, 2007
Or "baattle of the acronyms" if you prefer (actually, most technology controversies could be represented that way, sadly enough).
ITIL, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is...
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Integration Software
by Scott Wilson on December 9, 2007
For most businesses today, 90% of the heavy lifting for internal communications is handled via one mechanism: Electronic mail. This despite historic issues with that medium in terms of organization, s...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on December 7, 2007
SAP, long a provider of mobile solutions to integrate it's CRM software with a mobile work force, has announced that they will now be providing software for Apple's iPhone as well. In fact, th...
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SOA
by Scott Wilson on December 7, 2007
If you are a CIO you have probably sat through more sales pitches than you care to remember, and of late some of those are probably for products which promise to deliver you a Service Oriented Archite...
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SOA
by Scott Wilson on December 6, 2007
Okay, how is this for innovation, then? Microsoft and the Illinois State Police have been collaborating on a project called "FusionX" which is designed to provide an architectural and best p...
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General
by Scott Wilson on December 6, 2007
Todd Bishop at the Seattle PI, among others, is reporting on a testy exchange on Tuesday between Bill Gates and blogger Jonathan Snook over whether or not Microsoft has been innovative or reactionary ...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on December 5, 2007
Most people reading this blog will recognize what sort of waterfall I am actually talking about in the title, and it's not the sort you see in the picture. The waterfall model of project managemen...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on December 5, 2007
Cisco announced today that they have hired Padmasree warrior away from Motorola to serve as Chief Technical Officer. Warrior wraps up a 23 year career at Motorola that was capped with a stint as CTO t...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on December 4, 2007
Now I know that war rooms or control rooms or command centers or whatever you call them tend not to resemble, in real life, the classic "big screen" rooms popularized by "WarGames"...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on December 4, 2007
Larry Dignan at ZDNet is reporting that 13 percent of CIOs in a recent robert half survey plan to add staff in Q1 2008, with only 3 percent planning on staffing cuts and the remainder holding steady.
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Management
by Scott Wilson on December 3, 2007
The advent of widespread virtualization in Enterprise IT has lead to some interesting conundrums in the matter of software licensing. Traditional, if arbitrary, methods of licensing server software ba...
