IT: Working with Business to lead Customer Innovation
Business knows clients and generally tells IT what the client wants. IT is strategic, and understands how to make Innovation happen. Since innovation is what the customer really wants, shouldn't IT be...
11 Feb 200956min
Ending Legacy Apps: When & How?
Some organizations have been nursing legacy IT systems and applications along for decades in the belief they are squeezing the maximum value out of them. At what point do you decide you've gotten your...
4 Feb 200956min
Next Technology Revolution in the USA: Beyond Promises
In order to remain globally competitive and develop a workforce of appropriate number and quality, the national leadership has made promises to provide support for the next US technology revolution. H...
28 Jan 200955min
Justifying IT PMO in an Economic Downturn
Should you assume that creating an IT PMO will automatically create business value? During an economic downturn anything that impacts IT costs has to be evaluated carefully. Bottom line: you need to b...
21 Jan 200956min
Data Centers: Belt Tightening vs. Strangulation
Despite the global wide financial meltdown, businesses still need to keep running, and Data Centers are the very soul of most businesses. The need to accommodate continually accumulating data and ongo...
14 Jan 200954min
Indian CIO: Surviving a Wild Ride of Ups & Downs
Indian enterprises ballooned rapidly and Indian IT leaders rushed to manage the growth by leveraging the latest technologies. Now the global economic crisis has abruptly put the breaks on IT initiativ...
7 Jan 200956min
Is Your Email/Data Secure in The Cloud?
In the interest of achieving scalability, are we moving too quickly to cloud computing? What about data/email security issues? Once Cloud Computing becomes the de facto standard, there will be no turn...
31 Dec 200856min
A Troubled Marriage: HR and IT
There is a huge opportunity cost, when IT resource needs cannot be met quickly and cost effectively. Some problems include: an IT that is unaware of budget constraints or corporate cultural criteria, ...
17 Dec 200857min
