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Hollow words: United Airline's CEO talks up 'silver lining' of failure

Hollow words: United Airline’s CEO talks up ‘silver lining’ of failure

By Michael Krigsman on May 24, 2012

More from the front lines of United Airline’s merger with Continental.

Posted in Business | Tagged failure, United Airlines | 1 Response

Who's accountable for IT failure? (part one)

Who’s accountable for IT failure? (part one)

By Michael Krigsman on April 16, 2012

IT failures are a management crisis of serious proportions that have been largely ignored. Here’s what senior executives need to know – and do – right now.

Posted in Business | Tagged failure, IT Failure, Project Failure | 2 Responses

SAP Community Network – Fail?

SAP Community Network – Fail?

By Craig Cmehil on December 21, 2011

The Cracks are starting to show! I’ve been gone from the SAP world for awhile now but I doubt I’ll ever be completely gone – too much of my blood is still in the veins of the Developer network. So when I saw all the back and forths about the recent “delay” of the relaunch […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Community, Fail, failure, mistake, sap, Thoughts

Simulation drama: 'Why IT projects fail'

Simulation drama: ‘Why IT projects fail’

By Michael Krigsman on September 19, 2011

As we all know, almost all IT implementation failures suffer from unreconciled points of view, confusion, politics, and unclear definitions of success. No wonder these situations are difficult to manage and control successfully. To shed light on the inner workings of IT failure, particularly the dynamics among stakeholders with conflicting goals and agendas, the IT […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged failure, Risk management, skype

Perspective: Learning from failure

Perspective: Learning from failure

By Michael Krigsman on January 31, 2011

Failure is an essential step towards excellence — here’s why.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Asuret, CA Technologies, failure, Information technology, Learning, Michael Krigsman, ZDNet

Change management and the wisdom of failure

Change management and the wisdom of failure

By Michael Krigsman on January 28, 2011

Failure creates excellent opportunities to refine experience and knowledge into great success.

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Asuret, Change Management, enterprise software, failure, Management

An debate with the Doctor of Failure

An debate with the Doctor of Failure

By John Taschek on November 21, 2010

Failure happens. There are many issues and stakeholders in any technology implementation process and any of them adds complexity that can lead to failure. The question is how much technology, the DNA of the technology vendor, and other stakeholders contributes to the failure. Is it always a project management issue…

Posted in Business | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, failure, IT Project Failures, Krigsman, salesforce.com, Social, taschek, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 1 Response

Three simple truths of failure

Three simple truths of failure

By Michael Krigsman on November 3, 2010

This great Dilbert cartoon expresses several truths of failure from which we can learn valuable lessons.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Dilbert, failure | 1 Response

Five tips to learn from failure

Five tips to learn from failure

By Michael Krigsman on October 14, 2010

This five-point advisory list offers a great start to organizations that want to improve IT project success rates.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged failure, Information technology, Learning, ZDNet | 1 Response

Failure Fridays

Failure Fridays

By Steve Mann on September 24, 2010

Someone very close to me is about to begin a very cool new gig. Its a role that most would love and in fact be envious of (I sure am – and will be blogging about it soon!). So this…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged corporate culture, failure, history, innovation, success, Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill

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