Five tips to learn from failure
This five-point advisory list offers a great start to organizations that want to improve IT project success rates.
Department of Defense IT: Years late and billions over-budget
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.
UK health service abandons massive IT centralization plan
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.”
Burning question: Time to split IT?
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 […]
Why Chuck needs to get the chop
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.
CoIT: How an accidental future is becoming reality
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, […]
Federal gov’t gets serious about IT failures
Vivek Kundra, federal Chief Information Officer, has taken new steps to raise the profile of failed IT projects within the government.
The inner life of failed IT projects
This drawing illustrates the inner workings of failed IT projects. You’ve got to take a look!
In praise of unsung IT heroes!
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.
IT in 2030, er 2015.
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 […]
