Calling all business historians, I am researching the history of MRP/MRP II/ERP systems in manufacturing, and any possible relationship to the concept of...
Charles, I was heavily into MRP/BOM/SFCP etc. in the 70s (and built some neat systems, one of them that ran on a system with 12K main memory and a huge 10MB of...
This is outrageous!!!! http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1 <http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p ...
Charlie, another word to describe this is ridiculous. I suspect part of the motivation for patent applications like these may be defensive tactics. ...
Service management is a term that is easily widely interpreted. Even if there is a "genesis" - its history is likely to be highly debated. For the most part...
Val IT, complement to COBIT ISACA has released Val IT <http://www.isaca.org/Content/ContentGroups/Val_IT1/Val_IT.htm> . To quote Wikipedia, it "is a suite of...
A new CMDB <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/01/a_new_cmdb_crit.html> critic Ron <http://store.gulfstreampress.com/blog/ecommerceblog.cgi> Palmer is ...
The <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/01/the_fundamental.html> fundamental purpose of Enterprise Configuration Management Somewhat in response to Ron...
What is an appropriate S, G & A for "IT as a business"? Your CMDB budget depends on it... Last of tonight's triple play (I must be feeling inspired). Let's...
What is an <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/01/what_is_an_appr.html> appropriate S, G & A for "IT as a business"? Your CMDB budget depends on it... Last...
Charlie, that's a great way to think about planning for a sustainable IT infrastructure. In terms of what the right percentage is, we could get some guideance...
What is an <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/01/what_is_an_appr.html> appropriate S, G & A for "IT as a business"? Your CMDB budget depends on it... Last...
Apologies for duplicate posts. Yahoo has been a little flaky lately and I thought stuff was going into a black hole. (Perhaps it did but it eventually came out...
Rodrigo <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/02/rodrigo_flores_.html> Flores blog This is long overdue - Rodrigo is CTO of Newscale and a real mover and ...
Value <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/02/value_network_a.html> network: a non-value-add critique of the value chain concept Recently I've become aware...
Had the following debate today. Anyone else out there more informed on these questions? ========================================================= I have to...
Well, this is certainly the best debate I've had in a long time... Reposting more comments from http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/02/value_network_a.html ...
Martin, a public apology for this valuable message sitting in the Yahoo spam box for 2 weeks. i have no idea why Yahoo picked on you. I manage this list ...
More of this most interesting debate (at least to me)... ===================================== In this $5B environment, is the CIO's initials RS? If so, I'm...
My, this has been interesting. Kimberly - Good stuff. Nice insight. I'm a partner at a M/B/B strat firm and would love to chat further. We deal with these...
PS - first post here is from "stratman," then my response ... From: erp4it@yahoogroups.com [mailto:erp4it@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Charles Betz Sent:...
Interesting indeed, especially for the uninitiated. In isolation and viewed from afar, the full life-cycle of an IT Service (or an organism) is simple and...
The debate continues. Must have struck a nerve here. ============================== Charlie - You are speaking authoritatively on topics where you are clearly...