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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

Department of Defense IT: Years late and billions over-budget

Department of Defense IT: Years late and billions over-budget

By Michael Krigsman on September 30, 2010

A new GAO report highlights $6.9 billion in over-budget IT projects at the Department of Defense. The report also provides excellent advice that private-sector business leaders can apply immediately.

Posted in Business | Tagged budget, Defense Department, government, government spending, Information technology

UK health service abandons massive IT centralization plan

UK health service abandons massive IT centralization plan

By Michael Krigsman on September 9, 2010

The UK Department of Health (NHS) announced plans to scrap a single, nationwide health IT system, signaling an end to the “greatest IT disaster in history.”

Posted in Business | Tagged Department of Health, Health, Information technology, Infrastructure, National Health Service, UK, United Kingdom

Burning question: Time to split IT?

Burning question: Time to split IT?

By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 30, 2010

Mark DeSantis in the section of “consumerization of technology” in his radio interview with me commented about someone he knew at the Pentagon, (which traditionally has had early access to emerging technology) who increasingly walks the halls of the retailer, BestBuy for technology innovation ideas. The book, of course, has plenty of other technology executives […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CIO, Consumerization, Information technology, technology | 1 Response

Why Chuck needs to get the chop

Why Chuck needs to get the chop

By Phil Fersht on August 17, 2010

Senator Charles E. Schumer, not content with ludicrous attempts to tax the US consumer for taking an offshore call, has continued his personal tirade against the use of offshore services, by pushing through legislation to add a further $2,000 tax for an H-1B visa application, and $2,250 more for an L-1 visa application.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged BPO, Current Affairs, Employment, H-1B visa, Horses For Sources, Information technology, Infosys, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, offshore, Outsourcing, Outsourcing and Politics, Outsourcing Vendors, Schumer, The Future of Outsourcing, United States

CoIT: How an accidental future is becoming reality

CoIT: How an accidental future is becoming reality

By Dion Hinchcliffe on August 6, 2010

It’s a story as old as the IT department: New technology arrives in the market, it makes some type of work easier to accomplish, the business asks for it, and IT reacts and delivers it. Not always however, and usually somewhat slowly. It was this way with PCs, it was this way with the Internet, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud Computing, Information technology | 2 Responses

Federal gov't gets serious about IT failures

Federal gov’t gets serious about IT failures

By Michael Krigsman on August 2, 2010

Vivek Kundra, federal Chief Information Officer, has taken new steps to raise the profile of failed IT projects within the government.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Chief information officer, government, Information technology, strategy, Vertical Industries

The inner life of failed IT projects

The inner life of failed IT projects

By Michael Krigsman on June 9, 2010

This drawing illustrates the inner workings of failed IT projects. You’ve got to take a look!

Posted in Business | Tagged Human resources, Information technology, Management, project management, technology

In praise of unsung IT heroes!

In praise of unsung IT heroes!

By Michael Krigsman on June 5, 2010

Next time an IT person helps you out, or even listens to your whining without complaint, offer to take that person to lunch. Or, at least, say thank you and really mean it.

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Information technology, Management, strategy

IT in 2030, er 2015.

IT in 2030, er 2015.

By Vinnie Mirchandani on June 1, 2010

As Gartner gets ready to celebrate 20 years of its Symposium , senior analyst Richard Hunter bravely  – and somewhat somberly – looks 20 years out. “Have I mentioned that every 20 years, the world is a completely different place? I would predict increasing fragmentation of society. I would predict that privacy will be redefined […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged gartner, Information technology, polymath, Raymond Kurzweil, Silicon Valley, technology, The New Polymath

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