I’ve been involved in a few interesting discussions around the role of IT lately, specifically where does IT fit within social business? I’ve also been to a few prospect meetings where organizations were looking to deploy social tools and strategies to either interact with customers or employees, what’s been very interesting to me is that in all of the meetings I’ve had there hasn’t been a single person from IT involved.
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Anyone Can Deploy Social Business Tools Without IT: Is That Good or Bad?
Thursday, March 24th, 2011Is Open-Source A Viable Solution To Financial Institutions?
Thursday, December 16th, 2010A recent news story published by the Bloomberg Businessweek claimed that an Ex-Goldman Sachs programmer was found guilty of stealing certain source codes to use it for his new employer’s benefit. During the trial an argument put across by the defendant was that most of the codes that he stole were open source in nature. But the matter that caught most people’s attention was the fact that a financial institution like Goldman Sachs is also one amongst a plethora of open source code users.
Have IT Professionals Started To Move Away From Corporate Positions?
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010As we slowly climb out of a global recession the idea of being a corporate drone is becoming less appealing. The truth is that somewhere between 7.2 to 8 million people lost their corporate-level job, most which were from large companies.
Federal Government IT Reform Necessary
Thursday, October 28th, 2010A report has been released by the TechAmerica Foundation which analyzed the methods used by the Federal Government when acquiring major IT systems. In a nutshell, it found those methods lacking, especially when compared to the private sector. There are four major recommendations listed in the report that TechAmerica believe would help the Government improve IT acquisitions.
Microsoft Adopts An Open Strategy To Managing .NET
Thursday, October 14th, 2010Call it uncanny, strange or unlikely, Microsoft has made the move of going the Open-Source way — at least to manage some of its resources. In this case the idea is to incorporate one of the first editions (versions) of (more…)
Enemies of IT: The Speed of Business
Thursday, September 16th, 2010The right implementation of information technology and systems can drastically and immediately improve a workplace. It is this quick turnaround from implementation to tangible benefits that causes many business executives to push for an equally quick implementation of these technologies. However, IT managers need to keep executives’ over zealous timelines in check.
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Building The TPS House For IT Management
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010So, I am need of a recognizable icon representing Lean for my book rewrite, and of course I thought of the famous Toyota Production System “house.” (Some are now calling it the “Thinking Person’s System.) As far as I know the concept is not copyrighted, if I build my own representation from scratch.
This led to the question, has anyone ever attempted a mapping of IT onto that house? Google isn’t showing me anything.
Adding Social Computing Capabilities
Thursday, August 26th, 2010According to a new Forrester report, The Next Wave of Office Productivity by Sheri McLeish with Matthew Brown and Joseph Dang, Microsoft Office continues to dominate both in the enterprise and at home to no surprise. However, changes are affecting enterprise productivity strategies, such as Web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, and the consumerization of IT. Many enterprise workers use products like the iPhone and YouTube at home and they have expectations at work for similar functionality either through these tools or enterprise versions. As a loyal Mac. iTunes, and iPhone user who is still attached to Office, I was interested in where all these tools are going and appreciated getting a review copy of the report.
Enemies of IT: Requirements Creep
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Information Technology can be loosely defined as implementing technology to improve upon a business process. Many businesses fail to properly document the full procedure and scope of a business process, as many processes are generally handed down from one worker with the responsibility to others that replace them and/or others that get hired to assist with that particular process. For this reason, when IT is called in to alleviate some sort of burden or otherwise improve upon one of these business processes, requirements creep is a byproduct of the lack of an existing, well-defined, and/or documented business process. Here’s a few things IT management should do to combat requirements creep:
Installing And Running The Clojure Programming Language
Thursday, July 1st, 2010There’s a thread on the Clojure mailing list, started by folks new to Clojure, pointing out that it can be a bit daunting to get Clojure running in order to try out some basics. I figured I’d post a very short tutorial showing how to get a basic running environment and Hello World! compiled as a JAR and executable via Java.