...press in Ed Foster’s gripe line, post items in our Forums on InfoWorld Electric (www.infoworld.com) and otherwise feed the liberal media conspiracy.) Anyhow …the Internet scares people. Commonly described as...…
...you (hint: Ask them) and do something about it. If you manage application development and your project success rate is low, don’t just complain about how you can’t get what...…
Political correctness and common sense have something in common. No, it isn’t that opposing political correctness is just common sense. What they share is argument by assertion. Once you say...…
Is your organization performing as well as it should? As it could? Do you know? Can you know? Random notions on the subject: Notion #1: If you’re confident your organization...…
It appears my column about avoiding ambiguity calls for a correction and a clarification. The correction: As Joris Linnsen, writing from the Netherlands, reminds us, “If you don’t know where...…
...request into the magic quadrant you can do some initial screening: Reject everything (of course!) that combines high investment with low benefit. Accept everything that combines low investment with high...…
...to its “internal customers.” Here in KJR-land we’ve beat the internal-customer fallacy to death already (for example, in this piece, which ran in InfoWorld in 1996). With strong business integration,...…
...in IT will, in this world of trade-journal fiction, lead to huge competitive disadvantages, but that’s a different story. Except … it isn’t about information technology. It’s always about how...…
...to the company implementing ERP to decide whether it’s going to be a platform or an application. Imagine you’re in charge of IT for a Fortune 1000 company. You’ve implemented...…
...deserve: capability innovation and customer innovation. Capability innovation is making the business competent at skills it could use to improve its products, services, and internal processes if only it knew...…
