Greetings all, I have my first review draft done for my book. If you are interested in reviewing please drop me a note. I'm going to start posting excerpts ...
I would love to review the draft. Feedback on the list - Be sure to provide something even more concise for managers to read. You have framed this issue most...
Charlie, Your principles are good although some of them are VERY difficult to implement given the current state of best practices combined with the typical...
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GM and SEI standards activity re: outsourcing Longtime followers of this blog may remember that GM CIO Ralph Szygenda's call for "ERP for IT" was the first...
Yes, this is an interesting development. You'll find more on http://www.sei.cmu.edu/programs/acquisition- support/presentations/gallagher/swoutsourcing.pdf ...
A value chain approach to IT One of the major sections in my book is the development of a unified process framework. The reader might well ask: with such...
PS. The concept of value chain originates with theorist Michael Porter, from his book <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684841460/sr=8-2/qid=1139798993/ref=p ...
MessageCharles, It's worth mentioning that Porter's book was published over twenty years ago. The model I created for organizing application portfolios was...
You might check that last assertion. I think the human species has been working with real and conceptual value-chains since the first days of exchange (e.g.,...
Correction, Mr. Porter's book was first copyrighted in 1985, while his current book's introduction was copyrighted in 1998. Along the lines of Jeff Tash...
It is likely to have its origin in our language from the fields of either economics or accounting. I find references to "value" going back to the Babylonians...
An essential library for IT governance Looking over the books I've read recently - I can recommend all of the titles below personally as the core of a library...
Charlie et al - I expect you (Charlie) are the most recent traveller through academic corridors. It's of course belaboring the obvious that "they don't teach...
Hi David, MBA/MIS education is generally in crisis right now. Anecdote is that senior MIS faculty at the U of MN Carlson school have been forced to retire...
What scares me is that we don't let a doctor loose on patents until they have been approved by their professional body, we don't let an engineer sign off a...
The hard part about establishing licenses is that one needs to first establish a set of standards against which the license can be based. And that's the hard...
I think these topics have failed to become part of an academic program because they lack a home inside of ACM or a similar organization. Let's look at another...
Charlie - ... Thank you for such a thorough & thought-out response! At least some ONE (e.g. YOU) with recent academic credentials has thought about the many...
Hi Karen, one line of thinking is that the body that will become dominant is ISACA. I had lunch with someone at ITSMF who had a very convincing line of...
Don't forget that Symantec merged with Veritas (and that Veritas had acquired Precise, which has some good application management functionality). That being...
Should have mentioned more specifically that Symantec also purchased Veritas a year or so back - that's perhaps the motivation for this acquisition - but this...
As the article points out, Symantec bought Veritas a while ago. Prior to the acquisition, Veritas was preparing to become an ITSM player. Like many companies...
Here is a ray of hope from down under. http://www.mesa.org.au/engineering.html Several years ago, I was part of a group of people in Singapore introducing ...
DiamondCluster article This <http://www.diamondcluster.com/ideas/Viewpoint/PDF/Single_Heroic_IT%20Vi ewpoint.pdf> article by <http://www.diamondcluster.com/>...
Thanks for sending out the article Charlie. There is one additional reasons that "heroics" aren't good enough anymore that the article doesn't mention -...
Agreed. Two thoughts: -Autonomic and grid computing concerns me in terms of configuration management - I am not sure if the vendors working on these...
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