John Halamka recently posted this list of ideas on How to be a Great Boss. As always with John's posts, it's worth a read, but I can't help but wonder in going through it whether or not...
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According to this CIO.com article, you are all carrying 40% greater costs in your departmental budgets than you need to. Time to break out the long knives. The thing about this is that while I find...
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The Microsoft Operations Framework team posted yesterday to announce the release of version 4.0 of their product. I imagine I'll have more to comment on this topic after I've had a chance to...
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Mary Jo Foley has obtained and now published an internal Microsoft memo detailing some of the links and plans between the next version of Windows and the Windows Live hosted services which Microsoft...
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© jvumn It's no secret to most CIOs that managing the IT department in any major company is as much politics as technology. The question of which factor is ascendant in the corporate...
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Last month Bill Gates appeared before the House Committee on Science and Technology to appeal for an increase in the number of H1B work visas issued for specialty workers brought in to the US from...
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If I hear management talking about "Generation Y" or "The Millenials" as they are called, it's generally in pejorative terms. They don't focus, they lack initiative, they...
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I was reminded during an exchange between another consultant and myself in comments over my recent entry on how to pick a CIO of how de rigeur it is for those of us in this profession, and indeed...
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I often preach to clients that if you aren't measuring that you are doing something, and can't prove it from the numbers, that you aren't actually doing it; you're just saying you...
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As a CIO or other high-level technology executive, how could you not? "How to Tap IT's Hidden Potential" right there in the Wall Street Journal! Half a dozen very successful companies...
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The Microsoft Operation Framework version 4, still in development, has released a beta update to testers as of last Friday, covering all core modules with the exception of the Team Model Service...
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It's probably just coincidence that I was hearing sirens out the window as I was reading Michael Krigsman's post on emergency vehicle manufacturer American LaFrance blaming IBM for its recent...
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Although the topic seems to hold me and certain other bloggers with a morbid kind of fascination, it has been my experience that raids by the Business Software Alliance receive very little attention...
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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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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....
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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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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...
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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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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...
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Michael Krigsman over at ZDnet has a good article up discussing the predictability and prevention of project failures in IT riffing off of some of the basic principles of Agile Development. While...
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At least not if you are an AT&T employee, according to a recent Network World article. The communications giant, recently merged with other communications giant SBC, is apparently reversing...
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Prompted by some recent posts and the subsequent conversations over at Michael Krigsman's ZDnet Project Failures blog, I've dug in and written a lengthy treatise on consultants and incentives...
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