...suggestions from the company’s top executives. Which might mean the company’s top executives are open to suggestions themselves. The word is “might,” because if a company suffers from a paucity...…
...lesson comes from HP after all: When a company with a weakness buys another company that shares that weakness, it doesn’t create a strength. Attitude of privilege: Privilege, you’ll recall,...…
...haven’t watched Office Space. 2. Ignore everything that works well. If two people complain about the same issue, it’s a problem. 3. If the company is centralized recommend decentralization. And...…
...of the decision’s major stakeholders even the most elegant designs will fail, while an inferior, messy compromise to which the whole organization is committed to will succeed. Bob’s last word:...…
...bunch of hooey intended to energize the troops, so I ignored it. Betting the company only makes sense for companies in untenable situations. Any number of executives also say they...…
...make snide comments about a new client. My new client outsourced its vendor approval process to a company proud of its ISO 9000 certification. The process began in August and...…
...much do they put in each category. If you have an IT Steering Committee and its members aren’t the company’s top executives, ask its members, too. Finally, ask your IT...…
...the developer community found employment in companies trying to join the bandwagon; and client/server computing was born. A lot of the thinking behind client/server was a bit fuzzy, though, including...…
The next big trend in information technology is client/server computing, only nobody seems to admit it. History first: In the early-1990s, client/server was the Next Big Thing in IT. In...…
...bit more complicated than Google’s legendarily spare user interface, is still quite simple compared to what business users see when looking at a screen from one of the company’s enterprise...…