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02/27/06 Tip of the Week. Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Tip 2 - Get everyone on the same page.

February 27, 2006

Be sure your team understands how SOX fits into the IT environment. You should make sure the IT group is involved from the beginning of the project and is updated and included in the review of business processes that rely on IT systems and infrastructure... Read more...

Wikipedia

February 26, 2006

I've been spending some time with Wikipedia  and am now watching the following articles. Am mulling over possible contributions. There are many gaps and opportunities to add some value here... CMDB Configuration management Data management Data... Read more...

Aging workforce: one more argument for config/portfolio management?

February 25, 2006

The looming mass retirement of baby boomers has many HR professionals increasingly concerned. IBM has started devoting considerable attention to this, e.g. http://www-1.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/ibvstudy/bcs/a1009193?cntxt=a1005263. This may be... Read more...

Valuing applications

February 25, 2006

It's easy to put a value on physical computers. It's much harder to put a value on an enterprise's applications, but these are more significant by far. Two interesting developments I noted while perusing some literature on the plane: The Economist magazine... Read more...

HBR Article: IT & Board

February 25, 2006

The Harvard Business Review published a most interesting article in October 2005; a response to it led me to track down the original. By Richard Nolan and F. Warren McFarlan, it's entitled "Information Technology and the Board of Directors."... Read more...

Kellog Business School Portfolio Management offering

February 25, 2006

Mark Jeffrey (a DiamondCluster collaborator in academia) has organized what looks to be a most interesting offering at the Kellog School of Management (Northwestern University): Driving Strategic Results Through IT Portfolio Management. No credit offered... Read more...

Unisys integrates RUP and COBIT

February 22, 2006

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DiamondCluster article

February 22, 2006

This article by DiamondCluster CTO Chris Curran on Systematic Technology Management, with a proposed four-level maturity model for what I would call ERP for IT, is top notch. What he calls the TMO I call the "IT enablement" capability. He also... Read more...

Symantec acquires Relicore…?

February 21, 2006

Anti-virus software maker acquires niche CMDB dependency inference tool....? http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/02/08/75165_HNsymantecacquires_1.html I am just so puzzled by this - I guess I missed that Symantec is moving more into enterprise management... Read more...

02/20/06 Tip of the Week. Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Tip 1 - Get everyone educated.

February 20, 2006

Ask your finance team to conduct a meeting with your public company accountants and to have them, the public company accoutants, provide insight into IT general controls. In addition, there are multiple materials available on the Internet that specialize... Read more...

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