Excellent CFO magazine article on ERP for IT CFO Magazine has a great new article: " <http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/4077495?f=advancesearch> What, Where, and...
Charlie, you raise some excellent points. I've been mulling over the issue of governance for some time. One of the biggest interoperability issues with web...
IT Compliance Institute You can get a free membership to the <http://www.itcinstitute.com/> IT Compliance Institute for a limited time. Fair amount of...
HP CMDB report by EMA This brief & accessible <http://www.managementsoftware.hp.com/solutions/cmdb/ar/cmdb_ar_ema.pdf> research report by Enterprise Management...
An unusually good ITIL article In Government Technology, Chad Vander Veen has written an <http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/95672> unusually...
Charles: You're looking for "A Management System for Information Systems" (4 volume set). See: http://www-5.ibm.com/services/ch/ism/download_ism/itil.pdf...
Charles, Let me check with a colleague of mine who works for IBM Global Services. There might be a way to find these documents in some form within IBM. Having...
Not to mention that sooner or later the concept of history will become important to IT as in all other professional fields... ... From: erp4it@yahoogroups.com...
Apologies - this should have been off-list (didn't notice breadth of reply-to, using an unfamiliar email interface). Please delete & disregard. ... <snip>...
The author team of the upcoming book: Enterprise Service Oriented Architectures (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/140203704X/) seek final feedback...
James, Hope you are well - Ill review if Mark Little will allow it !!! Im based in Australia now but spend about 2 weeks a month in US (I have an office there...
FYI all - for those who aren't familiar, DAMA/Wilshire is a very worthy, practicioner-focused event. Recommended; it's been my main conference for years. ... ...
Defining "IT Governance" Got some feedback recently that the way I'm using "IT Governance" is "nonstandard." The point of view is that the term should be...
Charlie: You are correct that Governance, whether of IT or of a country, can be broadly applied. It is also the case that IT Governance is a hot topic, and so...
Shouldn't the analogy be corporate governance? I thought corporate governance included all sorts of things (e.g. business unit and firm level risk management,...
Being an ex-litigator who studied constitutional law, I have to say the the boundary between governing and administrating is extremely murky; so much so that...
This is a great topic, probably a never ending one, and unfortunately about as interesting as the great pop vs. soda debate (http://www.popvssoda.com/). David,...
David, thanks - just the kind of feedback I was hoping for. Question then: what is the relationship between portfolio management and system development/service...
Good point. Is there a definition of corporate governance that is generally accepted? ... From: erp4it@yahoogroups.com [mailto:erp4it@yahoogroups.com] On...
Nick, I think you're hitting the nail on the head. Does the term "governance" encompass its enablers and outputs, or simply imply them? Perhaps instead of...
MessageCharlie, thanks. I have really enjoyed this very active discussion thread. I wrote my own response, What is "IT Governance"?, but thought it more...
Charles, I agree with this. Governance encapsulates more than just portfolio management. Put all the portfolios together (i.e. project, application, service,...