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Enterprise Software And Blogging Bill Gates seems to bemoan the fact that enterprise software isn't covered by blogs and journalists. Date: 2007-12-10 Intranets Are In Trouble Intranets are in trouble. These internal versions of the World Wide Web have held huge promise. After all, if people can simplify their lives using the Web, why shouldn't the same technology simplify work? Date: 2007-11-12 Halloween IT Horror Stories: Blogging As Halloween rapidly approaches, it is time for the IT Halloween Horror Stories. We all have stories that have freaked, amazed, made us wonder, and otherwise... Date: 2007-10-29 How Choice Drives Change I've always believed that choice drives change. Or more specifically, that choices provided by free markets drive change in institutions towards more democratic systems. Date: 2007-10-08 Avoid Massive Training Costs In Your Call Center I saw a piece on Computerwire by Janine Milne recently - "Poor IT Training Costs UK Contact Centers Billions" (subscription required). Date: 2007-09-24 Detailed Descriptions & Decision Making I'm reading "The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making" by Scott Plous. It's a really interesting book. Date: 2007-09-10 What You Really Need Is A Chief Decision Officer I saw this article in DM Review - Building the Analytic Organization - in which Peter Graham lays out a case for a Chief Analytics Officer and how that role would be part of improving the use of analytics in an organization. Date: 2007-08-20 Time To Unleash Web 2.0 With Open Source eb 2.0 companies are largely built upon Open Source software. But how many of them do you consider significant contributors to Open Source? Date: 2007-08-03 The Transition's Happening The introduction of consumer-driven Web 2.0 technologies into businesses is set to usher in a new phase of productivity growth that could surpass that achieved during the late-1990s internet boom, according to John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems. Date: 2007-07-16 Google Expands On Net Neutrality Issues Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Google has put together a three-part blog post outlining Google's approach to Net Neutrality, what the company feels is okay for... Date: 2007-07-02 What Do You Want To See From An MSS One of the hallway conversations we have been having lately is what would a customer want to see in a Managed Security Service. Date: 2007-06-18 It's Good To Have Ajax And Ruby Skills The San Jose Mercury News has an interesting viewpoint on the desirability of web developers that can both code, and understand the requirements or ways that people communicate in the web 2.0 world. Date: 2007-06-04 Courts: It's Ok To "Google" Employees More than ever, it is important for people to know what "Google has on them". A recent court ruling indicates that employers can use data pulled up in a Google search. Date: 2007-05-14 Are There Enough Developers? One of the things that was apparent in 1995 through 1999 was that developers, really good developers were hard to find. Date: 2007-04-30 Six Sigma In IT Projects Software development, hardware implementation and testing in the IT domain make IT a big user of processes and therefore compatible to Six Sigma applications. Date: 2007-04-16 Information Security Creativity There has to be creativity in information security - without it we keep on doing the same things over and over again, regardless of the outcome, or the technology that we are working with. Date: 2007-04-02 Another Thing CIOs Should Know About Requirements I saw this article on CIO magazine - Five Things CIOs Should Know About Software Requirements. It seems to me that there is one more thing... Date: 2007-03-19 CIOs, Is Your Career Over? The long-standing joke about the acronym for chief information officers actually standing for "career is over" may have a real punchline now, one that hits... Date: 2007-03-05 CIOs Don't Feel The Love When it comes to expectations, CIO's and IT Managers are not feeling the "love" from their managers. "Nearly six-in-ten CEOs say they are satisfied... Date: 2007-02-19 When The Paranoia Meter Pops Bad security days happen, when the paranoia meter pegs and there is no substantiating facts behind it, some days it's bad to be a paid paranoiac. Date: 2007-02-05 Thoughts On ITIL Interesting, skeptical take on ITIL, by a person (Noel Bruton) with some apparent long term presence in the industry. He claims that there are four schools... Date: 2007-01-22 Information Security - A People Problem Interesting article out on outlaw about how information security is a people problem, which is something that we all probably really do know, even if we won't really admit it all the time. Date: 2007-01-08 |
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