...to our next two IT critical success factors … two factors that at first blush might not seem to have much in common. They are a competent and likable service...…
...more interesting factoids in the story (and as I work for Dell I’m not an entirely disinterested party, although I have no connection to the product side of the company):...…
...behemoth efforts into multi-initiative programs. Whatever else happens, the individual projects will at least complete, delivering their planned work products as they do. “Chunking” also helps prevent phase compression. As...…
...for one reason or another … go-for-broke schedules are a common culprit … companies often skip the pilot. They invariably lose more time than they ever hoped to gain, because...…
...conjure up any passion for what you do … if you don’t think personal computers, and networks, and the Internet, and giant data warehouses, and using computers to control your...…
...Here’s the best I’ve been able to come up with: Technical Architecture is the discipline of organizing a company’s suite of applications, information repositories, and technical infrastructure so as to...…
What’s sad and surprising about architecture is how seldom anything good comes of it. Or, for that matter, how seldom anything at all comes of it. I have no statistics,...…
...supporting consultant, it’s because, superficially, they appear to be a way for companies to: Buy customers instead of having to win them. Add new, complementary products without having to undertake...…
Several years ago I found myself in a dispute with my local telephone company. Without mentioning names, it was one of the long-distance carriers that had acquired some local telcos...…