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...
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Redding, Simon
violetlight9
Feb 5, 2008 11:22 pm
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...
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Robert Falkowitz
robert@...
Feb 6, 2008 7:59 am
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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Charles Betz
alphas0ng
Mar 31, 2008 3:24 am
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>...
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James McGovern
jm04469
Mar 31, 2008 10:57 am
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Charles Betz
alphas0ng
Apr 12, 2008 5:16 am
On my personal <http://erp4it.typepad.com/alphasong/2008/04/in-memory-of-ju.html> blog....
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Charles Betz
alphas0ng
May 20, 2008 2:44 am
A new framework for IT management: portfolio lifecycles Frameworks, frameworks, everywhere... ITIL, CMM, COBIT, etc., etc., ... and yet none of them satisfy....
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Charles Betz
alphas0ng
May 22, 2008 2:50 am
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...
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Ross McConnell
rossmc01
May 27, 2008 2:35 am
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....
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Cary King
kingmail53
May 27, 2008 11:13 pm
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...
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Charles Betz
alphas0ng
May 28, 2008 1:46 am
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...
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Charles Betz
alphas0ng
May 28, 2008 3:41 am
Wiles and <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2008/05/wiles-and-vambe.html> Vambenepe on CMDBf. interesting perspectives on CMDBf from Van Wiles here ...
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Kalyan Kumar
ekals2009
May 29, 2008 2:38 am
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...
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Mark Smalley
mpsmalley
May 30, 2008 1:13 am
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...
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Charles Betz
alphas0ng
Jul 2, 2008 4:17 pm
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...
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Charles Betz
alphas0ng
Jul 2, 2008 7:23 pm
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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Charles Betz
alphas0ng
Jul 3, 2008 3:16 am
Helge <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2008/07/helge-scheil-on.html> Scheil on ERP4IT <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2006/04/here_is_a_simpl.html> As...
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James McGovern
jm04469
Jul 4, 2008 1:43 pm
Hello!
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...
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Charles Betz
alphas0ng
Jul 4, 2008 6:39 pm
A gold mine, if you're curious what the academics are up to regarding "IT-business alignment": ...
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edhlbm
Oct 29, 2008 12:24 am
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...
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charb@...
alphas0ng
Oct 29, 2008 1:03 am
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...
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Raj Razdan
rajesh_razdan
Oct 30, 2008 1:08 am
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...
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jorge_mazzini
Oct 30, 2008 1:09 am
Try with ONE CMDB in this link http://www.onecmdb.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Good luck ... define...
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charb@...
alphas0ng
Oct 30, 2008 1:13 am
Very cool. Interested in updates to this effort, feel free to post. -ctb On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:39:36 -0000, "jorge_mazzini"...
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Charles T. Betz
alphas0ng
Nov 17, 2008 2:02 am
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...
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jschmidt163
Nov 17, 2008 1:55 pm
Charlie, thanks for taking your blog in this direction. I believe there are many more parallels between traditional manufacturing and software development....
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Martin G Erb
bumerb
Nov 17, 2008 8:52 pm
You might want to also read 1. Critical Chain. (Eli's Project Management using Theory of Constraints) ...
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Stuart Charlton
stuartcharlton
Nov 17, 2008 9:27 pm
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,...
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Rob Evans
drmutex
Nov 18, 2008 2:50 am
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...
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Oliver Sims
oliver_sims
Nov 18, 2008 4:33 pm
Charles, ... <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet> well stated by Fred Brooks among others: software development has essential complexity and is...
