ITPI has released some credible empirical research here: http://www.itpi.org/home/white_papers.php In a well-designed survey of 341 organizations, they...
Hello Charlie et al, We've been working on ways of measuring and benchmarking IT Services for their environmental impact - factoring in three levels: 1. The...
Simon, You might also: - consider the impact of decommissioning a service, especially concerning the disposal of the hardware used; - distinguish between the...
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Three <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2008/03/three-fundament.html> fundamental agility trends, and their source <http://www.omg.org/docs/bmi/08-03-03.pdf>...
A new framework for IT management: portfolio lifecycles Frameworks, frameworks, everywhere... ITIL, CMM, COBIT, etc., etc., ... and yet none of them satisfy....
ERP for IT - my views Just to set the record straight for my friend the IT <http://www.itskeptic.org/node/603#comment-2795> Skeptic: Not sure I agree with "ERP...
Charles In your last email, you talk about the lack of Enterprise Resource Planning tools. I spent 2 years raising awareness with the Australian Govt on: 1....
To your points: 1. & 2. Your math is correct. 3. Non Causa Pro Causa. Your assumption seems to be that IT is the problem. I submit it is not. The...
I have seen business applications owned by both the business and by IT, and currently work in a mixed environment. There are arguments on both sides. Business...
Wiles and <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2008/05/wiles-and-vambe.html> Vambenepe on CMDBf. interesting perspectives on CMDBf from Van Wiles here ...
Ross I agree to your viewpoint on the PPM Tools. But if u look at the architecture/features of the PPM Tools today they are more focused on Discretionary Spend...
Interesting point this, Business versus IT, might be worth a separate posting. I'm strongly against business systems being owned by IT but recognize the...
Catching up on my journals Probably my first exposure to the concept of a "professional journal" was M*A*S*H; medical journals figured in a number of the...
Catching up on my journals 2 Harvard Business Review July-August 2008: "Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference" by McAfee & Brynjolfsson, is...
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I wanted to let you know about Kiva (www.kiva.org), a non-profit that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur in the...
So, I cannot buy a CMDB and I do not want to maintain a complex spreadsheet - are there any simple tools that just allow you to define dependencies and then...
The main issue is that you need to determine whether you are more on the enterprise config or element config side. You probably don't want to try to roll your...
You may want to take a look at Service Ramp. http://www.serviceramp.com . It is a SaaS based catalog tool but also provides a simple way to create and track...
MRP for IT <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2008/11/mrp-for-it.html> I have been posting about "ERP for IT" for some years now. While I have been generally...
Charlie, thanks for taking your blog in this direction. I believe there are many more parallels between traditional manufacturing and software development....
I recommend Womack's book "Lean Thinking", along with Michael Kennedy's Product Development for the Lean Enterprise. There is a lot to be learned from Lean,...
Here's the book [1] that started me down the road to understanding that, often, when someone says software development is nothing like manufacturing, they...
Charles, ... <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet> well stated by Fred Brooks among others: software development has essential complexity and is...
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