Dealing with IT Chargebacks
IT chargebacks promise better control of IT spending by making users more conscious about their IT resource requests since it means they will end up paying for those resources. But what works, in theo...
7 Jun 200654min
CIO as a Change Agent
IT can be used to make an organization more competitive which requires redesign of existing business processes as well as design new processes. However, we need people to buy into these ideas. Thus, a...
24 Mai 200656min
No Cost Cutting. No Deadlines. IT Delivered.
Delivering IT faster, cheaper, and better may have become the mantra for most organizations. However, this may not be the best choice in all cases. What if the executive management gives you a free ha...
10 Mai 200656min
Sizing an IT Project Complexity
Sizing an IT Project in terms scope, effort, and cost is usually done using templates following a few ground rules. Do we factor in complexity? Is it the same for every project or for that matter ever...
3 Mai 200656min
Making the best use of IT Research
IT Leaders today are inundated with research data promising an unprecedented insight into trends and issues and help them manage their goals better. How much of this data is actually useful? How do re...
26 Apr 200656min
Measuring IT Project Success
Project success requires a combination of product success and project management success. We usually ask "was your project a success?" Instead we should be asking "how successful was your project?". W...
12 Apr 200656min
Effective Patch Management
Software companies now release thousands of patches every year. To make the process efficient, organizations using the software are deploying patch management software as an efficient and automated wa...
29 Mar 200657min
Making Enterprise Portals Work!
Enterprise portals are rapidly being adopted to address the information and application access requirements of an organization. A large percentage of such deployments are not delivering results or are...
22 Mar 200654min
