...who achieve invisibility will become invisible to you. They won’t expend any energy to make sure you understand what they’ve achieved; you — especially if you’re a nor’easter — won’t...…
...because there is no best practice. Agile produces more reliable completion rates and levels of end-user satisfaction than waterfall, so it must be best, mustn’t it? No. It’s best for...…
...to the “digital revolution.” But there is a revolution in the works. What it is: If a computer can do something, someone is making a computer do it somewhere. They’re...…
...which, depending on the exact framework and source, divides the IT stack into information systems architecture, subdivided into applications and data; and technology architecture, subdivided into platforms, infrastructure, and facilities....…
...is what increased tax revenues. The relevance for you as an IT leader: Especially in complex dynamic systems (IT organizations are an example), cause and effect relationships are tricky to...…
...it was before. The world of business has more in common with scientists and inventors than with the great political leaders: Should a company fail, while it’s hard on its...…
...governance into game-playing, and competition into something that happens inside the corporate organizational chart. But if that’s their decision, you have no choice. Set up your stall and start selling....…
...for its products, along with margin goals, contract terms and conditions and so on. Marketplace: The business ecosystem — suppliers, distribution channel, competitors and partners. Messages: How the business explains...…
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...…
...space; and Increasingly, “work/life balance” is giving way to “live your life wherever you are.” Many, misreading last week’s column as advocacy of a free-for-all in business computing, were horrified....…