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U.S. and UK Begin Mandatory Reviews of Gov IT Projects
Michael Krigsman
writes "...it is clear that project and program assurance should be a critical component of all IT organizations...Most sophisticated IT organizations would claim to have elaborate quality programs in place. In my experience, typical project (or portfolio) QA offers a limited project management-centric view of the world. These efforts ignore the broader context and drivers of success or failure, which is one major reason that failure rates remain so high. It’s heartening to see governments taking..."
Innovating While Meeting Performance Goals
Sameer Patel
writes "...Building Innovation cultures come in many flavors...It really means opening up the participatory funnel on not only suggesting but more importantly, refining the good ideas and getting the kinks out. In practical terms this means getting the big brains hidden in the corners of your enterprise to contribute...as leader...make sure your differentiating between decisive innovation execution and wild west idea festivals. That disciplined approach..."
Reconsider how to Measure Value in Systems
Michael Hugos
writes "How does your company measure value in the systems it produces? Most companies measure value by the degree to which a system meets the traditional “iron triangle” of Scope, Schedule and Cost. System scope is defined by...at The Gap they have shifted from the idea that “more is better” to the idea that “less is best”. They increase value by increasing amount of work they don’t do..."
BPMN for Business Professionals
Jim Sinur for Gartner
writes "...IT professionals can’t really expect business folks to understand cryptic/standard formats when they really want to see a real representation of their processes with desirable icons; not engineering Icons...If we fully expect BPM to enter the “C suite” and become the business man’s best friend, it had better shape up its image. BPMN is just one issue that BPM needs to engage in making processes appealing to the business..."
Late Projects: Perfection is a Schedule's Worst Enemy
Todd C Williams
writes "...People should be rewarded for completing tasks early, deferring new assignments until the current task is complete, and ensuring that deliverables are devoid of even the smallest of additional features. The resistance to this model is huge. Meddling managers are..."
Choosing a Load Balancing Algorithm Requires DevOps Fu
Lori MacVittie
writes "...These are great little posts for understanding the basics of load balancing algorithms like round robin, least connections, and least (fastest) response time...posts are accurate in their description of the theoretical (designed) behavior of the algorithms. The thing that’s missing from these posts...is context of the application that is being load balanced and the way in which modern load balancing solutions behave..."
Accessing and Managing Technical Debt
Israel Gat
writes "...From a governance perspective, technical debt techniques give us the opportunity to carry out consistent governance of the software process based on a single source of truth. The single source of truth is, of course, the code itself. The very same truth is reflected at every level in the organization..."
Calculating Storage: When 66KB Really Equals 4.12MB
CMS Watch
writes "[by Alan Pelz-Sharpe]...Or to put it yet another way: for every 4.12 MB you have sitting on your system, it is quite possible that only 66 KB of it is of any value at all. Regardless of exactly how you do this calculation, in my experience the outcome has always been that the vast majority of what we pay to store and manage on our information management systems is..."
Why IT Must Embrace Consumer Technologies
Mike Schaffner
writes "Consumer technologies are infiltrating the corporate world. Learn to leverage them...we are seeing what is referred to as the consumerization of IT. This refers to people being exposed to new technologies in their personal lives and asking, "Why can't we apply this to our work?" It's important to recognize that..."
Succession Planning
John Halamka
writes "Leaders often think about succession plans for their direct reports, but what about themselves? What if I had a serious health problem or accident that impaired my ability to lead my IT organizations? Here's my brief analysis...Overall in my roles as CIO of two institutions, my greatest utility is to provide a common link between..."
The Impossibility of CAP and Cloud
Lori MacVittie
writes "It comes down to this: the on-demand provisioning and elastic scalability systems that make up “cloud” are addressing NP-Complete problems for which there is no known exact solutions. At the heart of what cloud computing provides – in addition to compute-on-demand – is the concept of elastic scalability. It is through the ability to rapidly provision resources and..."
America's 21st-Century Business Model
Joel Kotkin
writes "...The emerging post-racial economy provides two distinct opportunities for American business. First the newcomers offer a new domestic "emerging" market...But perhaps even more important may be the uniquely international cast of American business. Heads of corporations and senior executives of many leading American firms will not have to go to graduate school in international training...This diversity will allow Americans to tap..."
Why A Civil Society Extends Unemployment Benefits
Robert Reich
writes "..Right now, there are roughly five applicants for every job opening in America. If the job requires relatively few skills, hundreds of applicants line up for it. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says 15 percent of people without college degrees are jobless today; that’s not counting large numbers too discouraged even to look for work..."
Ten Corporate Social Media Mistakes
Dan Woods
writes "...Don't try to define collaboration, offer simple and easy-to-use mechanisms. More ornate structures will emerge if needed. They rarely succeed...If adoption of social media is seen as optional, it will not happen. Only executives can make clear that change is required...End-users have a day job and it is a huge mistake to think that end-users alone can change a company's culture and successfully promote adoption..."
Why Consistent Innovation is so Difficult
Jeffrey Phillips
writes "...every successful innovator seems to drive more revenue, and drive more differentiation than other firms in their industry. So I'm left with the fact that executives are far too often hot and cold...about innovation, and that means a consistent innovation process, which requires commitment and exercise over time, can't be sustained..."
Structure and Strategy Behind Customer Co-Creation
Frank Piller
writes "...a number of brief articles are addressing open innovation with customers...Customer co-creation is ".. an active, creative and social process, based on collaboration between producers (retailers) and users, that is initiated by the firm to generate value for customers."...we present the following structure of eight co-creation strategies..."
Cloud is not Rocket Science but it is Computer Science
Lori MacVittie
writes "...in a nutshell, the core of what cloud computing really is. It’s “computer science” with an focus on architecting a system by which the computing resources necessary to secure, optimize, and deliver applications can be achieved most efficiently...What is new are the systems and architectures that tie these disparate technologies together to form a cohesive operating environment in which..."
CIO Talks About Privacy as Data Crosses Borders
Ed Sperling of Forbes
writes "...International privacy laws are changing the way global companies do business...
Technology hasn't changed the way information is gathered or prepared for analysis, but it has changed how it is presented and used by the customer. There is more information and proprietary tools in the hands of our customers. They can slice the data and analyze"
The Importance of Scope in Data Quality Efforts
Jill Dyche
writes "...In our experience, there are 5 levels of data quality delivery that can quickly establish not only the scope of an initial data quality effort, but also the actual duties and resources involved in the initial project...Business executives and users can consume a well-scoped problem, especially if it makes their jobs easy or propels progress..."
The Innovation Gap Between Executives and their Teams
Jeffrey Phillips
writes "...Most large organizations are built to optimize a set of predictable processes which support and maintain a given set of products or services...Executives in most firms rarely interact with anyone more than one or two levels below them, so they don't "know" the people in the organization and their ideas. They remember the organization as..."
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