
9 Questions every SaaS vendor needs to be able to answer
Skeptical CIOs need re-assuring from Cloud SaaS vendors – What are some of the questions they’re needing more guidance with?

Gov’t CIO interview: Success, failure, and innovation
Information technology projects in the state and federal government tend to be large, complicated, and expensive. Effective collaboration and cross-boundary communication are key drivers of success for these large projects. Certain programs mandated by the government, such as electronic medical records and health information exchange, are particularly susceptible to failure induced by poor communication and […]

C.K.Prahalad : Will Be Sorely Missed
C.K.Prahalad : The name resonates with different people – Business, Entrepreneurs, Management thinkers, Co-Authors, Consultants, Management Students, Government workers – in many different ways. For CK, perspective in most of what he had done has essentially come out of discussing, debating, working, observing and challenging with everyone around him. His belief in the early 1990s […]

Three Kinds of IT – Which is right post-recession?
With every IT shop vying for a low-cost leader prize during this recession, a change in IT strategy may be needed soon. But what will your new strategy be? Customer intimate? Product innovator? Process excellent?

Early Reviews of The New Polymath
“These pages are filled with incredible examples of passionate entrepreneurs, established leaders, and multinational companies, innovatively leveraging technology to tackle big problems, “grand challenges,” related to health, hunger, and natural disasters–and of course, information technology. As Mirchandani says, “it’s time for AND not OR”. Read on; be inspired. I’m looking forward to enjoying the future […]

In quest of simplicty
If you’re in the market for hammers and silver-bullets, simplicity is a pretty good one.

Rethinking IT and business transformation success
Over the past several years, our understanding of IT failure has evolved and deepened. It’s now time to start a new dialog focused on opportunity and success.

The twin evils of IT gridlock and denial
Gridlock and denial, both related to lack of consensus among team members, are among the most significant and common problems on many IT projects.

Curse of the IT prima donna
Prima donnas — folks whose apparent skill is matched only by their poor attitude and arrogance — are a plague we tolerate only out of necessity.

Follow The Yellow Brick Road Part I: Business Environment And Challenges
In my 2/9/2010 post, I announced that I would be publishing my strategic HRM delivery systems planning methodology on this blog, so I thought I’d better get started. Although there’s a very geeky set of materials to guide me on these projects, I call the version of my methodology intended for clients, “follow the yellow […]